Wilhelm Florin [SEP] place of death
Wilhelm Florin
Wilhelm Florin (born Cologne 16 March 1894:died Moscow 5 July 1944) was a German Communist Party (KPD) politician and a campaigner in opposition to National Socialism.
Life.
Life Early years.
Wilhelm Florin was born in Poll, already a suburb of Cologne, across the river and to the south-east of the city centre. His family was working class and strongly Catholic: early on he became involved with the Catholic Young Men's Association. He qualified as a riveter and worked
in Germany. In the intensive party disputes that followed Hitler's take over, Florin initially sided with what was defined as the "extreme left" wing of the KPD, along with , and , but Florin, like others, very soon realigned his position to that of Walter Ulbricht and Wilhelm Pieck.
Life Exile and death.
At the 1935 Communist International (Comintern) Florin was a member both of the organisation's executive committee and of its International Control Commission, positions he retained until the Comintern itself was unceremoniously dissolved