August Bebel Papers

Period 1864-1913
Total size  1 microfilm
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Biography

Bebel, Ferdinand August. Born in Cologne 1840, died in Passug, Switzerland 1913; politician and leader of the German social democrats; one of the founders of the Sächsische Volkspartei in 1866; member of the Reichstag from 1867; with Wilhelm Liebknecht founder of the Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei (SDAP) on the basis of the so-called Eisenach program of 1869; one of the promoters of the fusion of the social democrats with the Lassallean Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverein (ADAV) into the Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAPD) in 1875; one of the main spokesmen of the Reichstag delegation of the SAPD, from 1890 of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD); treasurer of the SPD 1890-1892 and one of its two chairmen 1892-1913; author of among others `Die Frau und der Sozialismus' 1879 and `Aus meinem Leben' 1910-1914.

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Correspondence between Julie and August Bebel; letters by Bebel to Pavel Aksel'rod, Ignatz Bahlmann, Hugo Heinemann, Stanislav Mendelson, Franz Mehring, Jean Longuet, David Rjazanov, Andreas Scheu, Hermann Schlüter, Georg Vollmar and others.

NB. Originals at the RGASPI (Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History), the former RCChIDNI, Moscow, fund 202.

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Originals at the Rossiskij Centr Chranenija i Izucenija Dokumentov Novejsej (RCChIDNI fund 202)