Max Beer

Max Beer ( born August 10, 1864 as Moses Beer in Tarnobrzeg, Galicia, Empire Austria, † April 30, 1943 in London) was an Austrian- German journalist and historian. He published temporarily under the pseudonym " Spectator ".

Life

Moses ( Max ) Berry grew up in a traditional Jewish home. His father was a commissioned officer in the Austrian army. After graduation with 15 years and a few jobs, the young man moved in 1889 to Germany and worked, among others, as editor of the Social Democratic " People's Voice " in Magdeburg.

After he had been held against the press law because of an alleged violation, Max Beer emigrated to London in 1894 and studied there from 1895 to 1896 as one of the first at the London School of Economics. 1898 to 1902 he lived in New York, where he worked as a correspondent for the SPD newspaper The New Age and the party organ forward, for the Munich Post and the Arbeiter-Zeitung. 1902-1912 he was in London correspondent of the English forward as the successor of Eduard Bernstein. In 1915 he was deported to Germany as an enemy alien.

1919-1921 gave Max Beer out the socialist Halbmonatsschrift The bell and worked from 1927 to 1929 at the Marx- Engels Institute in Moscow, and from 1929 to 1933 at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main. Shortly after the "seizure of power " of Hitler in Germany, and thus the beginning of the Nazi regime, he emigrated to London in 1934, after Germany had deprived him.

Max Beer died in London of tuberculosis.

1951 named the GDR in Berlin -Mitte after him earlier Dragonerstraße in Max-Beer- road around.

Publications (selection )

• History of socialism in England. Dietz, Stuttgart 1913.
• Jean Jaurès: His life and work. In memory of his death (July 31, 1914). International correspondence, Berlin -Karl Horst, 1915.
• Karl Marx: A monograph. Publisher of Social Science, Berlin 1918; Fourth, revised edition 1922; Reprint of the first edition: New ISP -Verlag, Cologne, 1999, ISBN 3-929008 -05- X.
• General History of Socialism and the social struggles. 5 volumes. Publisher of Social Science, Berlin 1919-1923; 7th edition, with additions by Hermann Duncker: New German Verlag, Berlin 1931 ( online).
• The British socialism of the present, from 1910 to 1920. Dietz, Stuttgart 1920.