The leading people aligned with Meyer were Hugo Eberlein,[2] Arthur Ewert, Heinrich Süßkind, Gerhart Eisler and Georg Schumann[3] and came from the ranks of trade unionists, intellectuals and full-time KPD employees.
They supported a united front with the Social Democratic Party of Germany,[3][4] similar to the right wing of the KPD, aligned with August Thalheimer and Heinrich Brandler.
[5] The Conciliator faction refrained from criticizing the hegemony of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the Comintern and they rejected all suggestion of a split in the KPD.
With Meyer's death in early 1930, the Conciliator faction lost a large part of its influence in the KPD and afterward, found themselves needing to be discreet.
After 1933, when the Nazi Party seized control of the government, the Conciliators joined the German Resistance, both unaffiliated groups and those still in the KPD, such as the "Berlin Opposition" aligned with Karl Volk and Georg Krausz.
[3] The 1984 Handbuch der deutschen Gegenwartsprache ("Handbook of German Contemporary Speech") published in the GDR defined versöhnler as "within the labor movement, someone who exhibits unprincipled anti-marxist behavior, fomenting right or left opportunism".