Heinrich Brandler

Heinrich Brandler
Heinrich Brandler
	Portrait by August Sander, 1931
Chairman of the; Communist Party of Germany
	In office; February 1921 – April 1924
Preceded by	Paul Levi; Ernst Däumig
Succeeded by	Ruth Fischer; Arkadi Maslow
Personal details
Born	3 July 1881; Varnsdorf, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	26 September 1967 (aged 86); Hamburg, West Germany
Party	SPD (1901–1916); USPD (1917–1918); KPD (1919–1928); KPD (O) (after 1929)
	Central institution membership 1920–1924: Full member,; KPD Politburo ; 1919–1924: Full member,; KPD Zentrale ;

Heinrich Brandler (3 July 1881 – 26 September 1967) was a German communist, trade unionist, politician, revolutionary activist, and political writer. Brandler is best remembered as the head of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the party's ill-fated "March Action" of 1921 and aborted uprising of 1923, for which he was held responsible by the Communist International. Expelled from the Communist Party in December 1928, Brandler went on to become co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany Opposition, the first national section of the so-called International Right Opposition.