Anti-Fascist Committee of German Workers in Romania

Emmerich Stoffel was the chairman of the Committee and Philipp Geltz its secretary.

[1] The Committee was based in Bucharest and published the newspaper Neuer Weg ('New Path').

[1] By the late 1940s the post-Second World War wave of discriminations against the German minority in Romania had subdued.

[2] At its meeting in December 1948, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers Party adopted a 'Resolution of the National Question' which outlined the need for the formation of a German Anti-Fascist Committee and a German-language newspaper.

[4][5] The Committee was tasked with mobilizing support for the Communist government amongst ethnic German labourers.