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The Communist International (Comintern) was an important factor in the political life of the Weimar Republic. The aim of this paper is to present the role played by the Comintern in the German Republic. How did it influence its political and social development? What did the Comintern do to overcome the Republic? For this purpose, the structures with which it was present in Germany are introduced and Communist insurgency attempts in the early phase of the republic are sketched out, while examining how representatives of the International acted on and during the events, and how they intervened directly in the party system of the Weimar Republic. It also explains how the rise of Stalinism changed the function of the Comintern and how the theory of social fascism, imposed by Moscow, temporarily led them into adventurous alliances with right-wing forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]