Joseph Moll

Maximilien Joseph Moll ( born October 14, 1813 in Cologne, † June 28, 1849 in Rothfels on the Murg, (now Gaggenau Bad Rotenfels ) was a watchmaker and a revolutionary.

Life

Joseph Moll was the son of Johann Christian Heinrich Franz Handlungsgehilfen minor ( * 1773) and Maria Elisabeth Aloiyse, born Buchmüller (* 1786). He had three brothers and one sister. After the completion of an apprentice watchmaker Joseph Moll wandered through several European countries. During these travels, he met many German workers' associations. So he joined in 1834 the domiciled in Switzerland secret society Young Germany at. In 1836 he was in Paris, a member of the League of the Just before he went in 1839 to England, where he was among the founding members of the German Workers ' Educational Association in 1840. In 1846 he was a member of the Central Committee of the League of the Just and 1847 he was elected in London in the central line of the Communist League.

Like many other fellow returned minor in the revolutionary turmoil of 1848 and 1849 returned to Germany. In Cologne, he worked in 1848 as a successor of Andreas Gottschalk as president of the Cologne Workers' Association and drove the Marxist orientation of the club moving forward. As a result of an arrest warrant for revolutionary activity during the September riots Moll fled in October 1848 to London, but later returned illegally to Germany. There Moll took in May 1849, part of the Baden-Palatinate uprising and fell as a result of combat operations on 28 June 1849 in a skirmish on the Murg.

Appreciation

The newly created in 1960 minor street in central Berlin was named after him.