Heinrich Braun (writer)

Heinrich Braun ( born November 23, 1854 in Budapest, † February 9, 1927 in Berlin) was a German social democratic journalist and politician. He was doing the revisionist wing.

Family

He was the son of the Jewish small businessman and cigar manufacturer Ignaz Brown. His mother was Ida (born Neubrunn ). His brother was the later Social Democratic politician Adolf Braun, his sister Emma married to his mediation the Austrian socialist leader Victor Adler. He was married in 1883 to his first wife Josephine. The marriage was divorced in 1890. Then he married in 1895 one of his house girl named Frieda. There was a scandal when he divorced from that during her pregnancy in 1896, to marry the widow Lily of Gizycki. After her death in 1916 he married Julie in 1920 Vogelstein. He had four children from his marriages. Among them was the poet Otto Braun.

Life

Brown was educated in private schools in Leipzig and Vienna, before he studied at the universities of Vienna, Strasbourg, Göttingen, Berlin and Halle an der Saale law, economics and history. He received his Ph.D. in Hall Dr. phil.

Already at the beginning of his studies he came, inspired by the writings of Lorenz von Stein, along with his friend, Viktor Adler, who later became his brother in law, to socialism. In 1879, he joined the SAPD. Due to his Jewish creed, or politics it a university career was denied.

He assisted Karl Kautsky financially so that it was able to move as an employee of Friedrich Engels to London. Brown served as secretary of the party in 1887. He has at times been viewed by August Bebel as a future leader of the party. Since 1901, it took until 1906 regularly participates in the Social Democratic Party days. In the years 1903 and 1904 he was a member of the Reichstag, was until his election canceled later for a short time. Another candidacy failed in 1907. He belonged to the reformist or revisionist wing of the party and spoke out about an alliance with the left wing of the bourgeois democrats.

He had great importance as a social democratic journalist. In 1883 he was beside Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz, Kautzky and Wilhelm Liebknecht co-founder of the New Age. He was also called " brown Archive" in 1888 co-founded the " archive for social legislation and statistics". This magazine he gave out to 1903 also. Then it was renamed the Archives for Social Science and Social Policy. Max Weber, Werner Sombart and Edgar Jaffe took over the editorship. Brown remained employees. He was also from 1892 to 1895 editor of the Social Policy Central sheet.

Together with his wife, Lily Brown, he gave since 1903 publishes the weekly magazine " The new society". The paper saw itself as an organ of criticism of his own party over. In the magazine Brown invested his fortune. They failed after the second edition, after the couple was attacked on the Dresden Congress sharply along with other supporters of revisionism. Franz Mehring threw them participation in the " bourgeois press " before. The Congress had approved a proposal, who declined to participate in the non- Social-Democratic press. In 1905, Brown tried to revive the project again. This time it failed because of the resistance of the line-toeing party press. In 1907 he gave up the efforts to renew the party " from the inside " out. From 1911 to 1913 he was the " annals of social policy and laws".

During the November Revolution, he offered his support to the party again, but this declined from. A him in 1919 by Konrad Haenisch him being transmitted professorship he refused. After 1919 he also worked as an insurance expert in Berlin.

Works

• Annals for social policy and legislation ed. by Henry Brown. Springer, Berlin 1912-1919
• Julius Altenburger, Heinrich Braun et al: Actuarial treatises. Mediator, Berlin 1911 ( Publications of the German Association for Insurance Science Bulletin 20)
• Life insurance. Mediator, Berlin 1932 ( Insurance Library 9)