Ernst Däumig

Ernst Friedrich Däumig
Ernst Friedrich Däumig
	Däumig c. 1920
Chairman of the; Communist Party of Germany
	In office; 4 December 1920 – February 1921
Serving with	Paul Levi
Succeeded by	Heinrich Brandler
Chairman of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
	In office; December 1919 – 4 December 1920
Serving with	Arthur Crispien (1919–1920); Adolph Hoffmann (1920)
Preceded by	Hugo Haase
Succeeded by	Georg Ledebour
Member of the Reichstag; for Potsdam II
	In office; 24 June 1920 – 4 July 1922
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Paul Wegmann
Personal details
Born	25 November 1868; Merseburg, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia, North German Confederation
Died	4 July 1922 (aged 53); Berlin, Weimar Republic
Party	SPD (1898–1917); USPD (1917–1920, 1922); KPD (1920–1921); KAG (1921–1922)
Occupation	Politician; Journalist; Newspaper Editor;
Known for	Advocacy for council democracy, leadership in the German revolution of 1918–1919, co-chairmanship of USPD and KPD, editorship of Die Freiheit and Der Arbeiter-Rat

Ernst Friedrich Däumig (25 November 1868 in Merseburg – 4 July 1922 in Berlin) was a German politician, journalist and newspaper editor who became co-chairman of both the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and Communist Party of Germany (KPD).