Philipp Dengel

Philipp Dengel
Philipp Dengel
	Flieg c. 1924
Member of the Reichstag; for Düsseldorf East
	In office; 27 May 1924 – 14 September 1930
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Multi-member district
Personal details
Born	15 December 1888; Ober-Ingelheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire
Died	28 March 1948 (aged 59); Berlin, Soviet Occupation Zone
Party	SPD (1911–1919); KPD (1919–1920, after 1921); KAPD (1920–1921)
Education	University of Mainz; University of Giessen
Occupation	Politician; Journalist; Teacher;
Military service
Allegiance	German Empire
Branch/service	Imperial German Army
Years of service	1913–1918
Rank	Leutnant
Battles/wars	World War I
	Central institution membership 1925–1929: Full member,; KPD Politburo ; 1925–1935, 1939–1945: Full member,; KPD Central Committee ; Other offices held 1924–1925: Political Leader,; Lower Rhine KPD ; 1924: Political Leader,; Wasserkante (Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein) KPD ;

Philipp Dengel (15 December 1888 – 28 March 1948) was a German communist journalist and politician. Dengel was a member of the Reichstag for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) between 1924 and 1930, a member of the KPD Central Committee and Politburo, and an editor of Die Rote Fahne. Dengel was a close ally of KPD leader Ernst Thälmann until they fell out over the so-called Wittorf affair in 1928, for which he was demoted within the KPD and removed as a candidate for the 1930 federal election. Dengel lived principally in Moscow and worked as an official for Comintern between 1931 and 1947. Dengel returned to Germany shortly before his death in East Berlin in 1948.