Paul Geleff

Paul Johansen Geleff (also Poul Johansen Geleff; born January 6, 1842 in Bredebro, North Schleswig, † May 16, 1928 on Capri ) was a Danish socialist and co-founder of the Danish Social Democrats.

Life

Paul Geleff was the son of a small farmer and teacher in 1864. He worked as a journalist and was in 1867 the Journal Hejmdal out what he conceded a penalty because he is said to have insulted the Prussian state.

In October 1871 Geleff was with Louis Pio and Harald Brix co-founder of the Danish Social Democrats as a department of the First International.

From 1871 to 1874 he worked for the newspaper Socialists and from May 1874 to 1877 for the newspaper Social - Democrats.

After Slaget på Fælleden 1872, a violent clash between striking workers and the state power, he was sentenced to three years in prison. He was accused of having called together with Pio and Brix to a coup.

1877 emigrated Geleff along with Pio in the United States. There came quickly to break with Pio, of which he in 1877 a self-ironic pamphlet entitled The rene skære, Sandhed om Louis Pio og mig ( The pure and simple truth about Louis Pio and myself ) published selv. In the book, he revealed that Pio and he was threatened and bribed by the Danish police to leave Denmark. This behavior of the two socialist leader was regarded by his comrades at home than betrayal.

Geleff returned only in 1920 at the request of the Social Democrats returned to Denmark. He received a pension party for the rest of his days. After spending a year in Nyborg Geleff was sent because of his poor health to Capri, where he also died.

He was buried on the non- Catholic cemetery on the island ( Dieter Richter, Il giardino della memoria. Cimitero Il acattolico the Capri, Capri 1996, p.151 -52)