Central Bureau of the German Sections of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
The Central Bureau of the German Sections of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) () was a structure within the organization of the Bolshevik Party, coordinating the activities of ethnic German sections of the party. Founding of the Central Bureau of the German Sections By the end of 1918 German communist groups had been formed in Astrakhan, Tsaritsyn, Irkutsk, Ekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Penza, Perm, Petrograd, Samara, Saratov, Tomsk, Tula, Tver, Tashkent and Vyatka – linked to the respective city party organizations of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). The Central Bureau of the German Sections of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was established in Moscow on February 26, 1920, in order to gather all the German communist groups in Soviet Russia into a united organization. The Central Bureau of German Sections was subordinated to the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Friedrich Schäfer was the First Secretary of the Central Bureau. The main slogan of the Central Bureau was "To the Red Army!", promoting participation of German communists in the frontlines of the Russian Civil War. The Central Bureau also sought to involve German prisoners of war in the rebuilding of the national economy