The party represented a more radical position compared to the Czech Marxist left, and fully supported adherence to the Communist International.
[1] The radicalization among the German socialists in Czechoslovakia could be traced to the influence from refugees from Hungary following the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
[1] The leftwing elements in the DSAP, centered in Liberec (German: Reichenberg) and led by Karl Kreibich, took part in the December 1920 general strike.
[2] The expelled Liberec DSAP branch was joined by other German left-wing social democrats in working towards founding a new party.
[8] As per the statutes adopted in the founding party conference, the new party was divided into 18 district organizations (Kreisorganisationen): Aussig, Bodenbach, Böhmisch Leipa, Brünn, Freiwaldau, Grulich, Karlsbad, Komotau, Krummau, Mies, Mährisch-Ostrau, Mährisch-Schönberg, Olmütz, Prag, Reichenberg, Töplitz, Trautenau and Warnsdorf.
[5] Prior to the founding of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (German Division), the organ of Liberec left was the daily newspaper Vorwärts ('Forward').
[10] Lenin in particular was pushing for the unification of the communist movement in Czechoslovakia into a single party, a move that the Czech leftists had initially resisted.
[10] The German communists had taken a more radical stand than the Czech left leader Bohumír Šmeral, who for tactical reasons hesitated in forming a new party.
[7] Drawing from the experiences of the building of the KPD, Kreibich sought to utilize the same approach to Šmeral's group as the Spartacus League had employed in winning over large parts of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany.