Friedrich Sorge

Friedrich Adolf ( Adolph ) worry ( born November 9, 1828 in Bethau near Torgau, Saxony, † October 26, 1906 in Hoboken (New Jersey ), United States ) was a German music teacher, revolutionary and communist and long-time correspondent of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Revolutionary struggles in Germany

His father, a Lutheran pastor, taught him at an early stage. In Halle he attended from the end of 1842 a device for training for teachers. In 1848 he participated in the German Revolution. He fled from the Prussian troops in the spring of 1849 in Switzerland. At the time of the constitution campaign he lived in Baden, where he August Willich and his volunteers joined.

During these struggles the Baden Revolution he met in 1849 and Johann Philipp Becker and Friedrich Engels. Again he fled to Switzerland and traveled to Geneva. Here he met with Wilhelm Liebknecht. After he had left Switzerland in 1851, he went to Belgium. In 1852 he traveled to London where he attended Karl Marx.

Activities in the U.S.

In the same year he went to the USA and worked there as a music teacher. In 1857 he co-founded the Communist clubs of New York City. On 24 June 1857 he became an American citizen. A year later he was elected president of the club. One of the goals of the club was in the fight against slavery. A section of the International Workers Association (IWA ) he founded in 1867.

In New York City, he participated in 1867 instrumental in the merger of the Communist clubs with the General German Workers' Association for Social Party, but was only a short time. At the end of 1869 it came to the re-establishment of the General German Workers' Association. This joined the National Labor Union. In December 1869, the club member in the IAA.

Care devoted himself more and more to the expansion of IAA in the United States. In December 1870 he was elected to the Central Committee of the IAA. In December 1871 he was a member of the Federal Council of the IAA in the USA. In this capacity, he represented the Federation of the United States in 1872 at the Congress of IAA in The Hague. When the General Council of the IAA was moved to the U.S., he assumed the position of Secretary, which he perceived to September 25, 1874.

Formation of a labor party and work as a writer

From 1875 to 1876 he was trying to unite the different social-democratic groups and organizations in the United States. Thus, the Workmen's Party of America was formed in Philadelphia in 1876, a year later renamed to Socialist Labor Party. His influence led to this party largely oriented to the IAA. But when multiplied the influence of the extreme left-wing tendencies in the organization of the workers, he withdrew from the immediate political work.

In the following years, particularly from 1890 to 1904, he wrote a number of historical writings and worked as a journalist for the newspaper The New Age. Since 1871, he stood in the rain correspondence with Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. Until 1895, he wrote 147 letters that are known today. In the volumes 33 to 39 of Marx- Engels -Werke in Berlin, numerous letters were published from 1966 to 1968.

He was the great-uncle of Richard Sorge ( 1895-1944 ).

Writings

  • The presidential election in the United States. In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 15.1896-97, Vol 1 (1897 ), No. 1, pp. 10-19
  • The presidential election in the United States. In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 15.1896-97, Vol 1 (1897 ), No. 2, pp. 54-58
  • The presidential election in the United States. In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 15.1896-97, Vol 1 (1897 ), No. 3, pp. 81-87
  • From the United States. In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 15.1896-97, Vol 1 (1897 ), No. 5, pp. 142-148
  • From the United States. In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 15.1896-97, Vol 1 (1897 ), No. 6, pp. 177-182
  • Letters from North America, in: The New Era, 1890/91
  • The labor movement in the United States until 1850, in: The New Age, 1890 /91 ( it was followed by a sequel in several contributions )
  • School singing lessons. ( Abrdruck from: Musical weekly Leipzig, on 4 and 11 February 1892. ). F. W. Fritzsch, Leipzig 1892
  • From the United States: The New Era, 1895/96
  • Memories of a Achtundvierzigers, in: The New Era, 1898/99
  • March 14 ( anniversary of the death of Karl Marx), in: The New Time 1902/ 03
  • Women and child labor in the United States, in: The New Time 1903/ 04
  • Socialism and the Worker, London 1906
  • Letters and excerpts from letters by Joh Phil Becker, Josh. Dietzen, Friedrich Engels et al to F. A. concern and Other. J. H. W. Dietz successor, Stuttgart 1906
  • Morris Hillquit: History of Socialism in the United States. Authorized translation by Karl Müller -Wern mountain. Introduced by F. A. concern. JHW Dietz successor, Stuttgart 1906 ( International Library Vol 39)

Honors

In his honor, received on 1 March 1988 in the National People's Army, the battalion "Radio Electronic Warfare 3" in a hurry Castle (Saxony ) the name " Friedrich Adolph Sorge ". In Dresden, a street is named after him.

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