Willi Eichler

Willi Eichler (January 7, 1896 – October 17, 1971) was a German journalist and politician with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

Eichler was born in Berlin, the son of a postal worker. He attended Volksschule and then became a clerk. Between 1915 and 1918, he served as a soldier in the First World War.

In 1922, he went to work as the secretary of the socialist philosopher, Leonard Nelson, who founded the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). He became a close confidant of Nelson. In 1923, he joined the SPD, but remained a follower of Nelson and became a member of the ISK. After Nelson's death in 1927, Eichler became chairman of the ISK.

From 1932 to 1933, he was the editor-in-chief of the ISK's anti-Nazi newspaper, Der Funke, which published an "Urgent Call for Unity" in June 1932 calling for support of the SPD and the KPD in the German federal election, July 1932. It was signed by 33 well-known scientists, authors and artists, including Albert Einstein, Emil Julius Gumbel, Kurt Hiller, Erich Kästner, Käthe Kollwitz / Arthur Kronfeld, Heinrich Mann, Pietro Nenni, Paul Oestreich, Franz Oppenheimer, Theodor Plivier, Minna Specht, Helene Stöcker, Ernst Toller, Erich Zeigner and Arnold Zweig.

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