Eduard Bernstein Papers

Period 1877-1932
Total size   2.62 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Eduard Bernstein; born in Berlin 1850, died in Berlin 1932; social democratic politician and theorist; joined the social democrats in 1872; lived in exile in Zurich and London 1878-1901; editor of Der Sozialdemokrat 1881-1890; proposed a revision of the Marxian theory in a series of articles entitled `Probleme des Sozialismus', published in Die Neue Zeit 1896-1898, and his book Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus und die Aufgaben der Sozialdemokratie 1899; member of the Reichstag from 1902-1907, 1912-1918; became member of the Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (USPD) in 1917; returned to the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) in 1919; again member of the Reichstag from 1920-1928.

Content

Personal documents including some official records, contracts with publishing houses and financial documents; correspondence with Simon Alapin 1916-1921, Lujo Brentano 1912-1914, Friedrich Otto Hertz 1899-1903, Karl Höchberg 1878-1884, Franz Mehring 1889-1914, the editorial staff of Vorwärts 1903-1931, cousin Johanna Meyer 1919-1930 and other members of his family 1880-1931 and n.d., and others; manuscripts, drafts of speeches and lectures, notes and excerpts; proceedings; files on the Bund Neues Vaterland 1915 and the Görlitzer Programm 1921; manuscripts by others; statutes, proofs, pamphlets and press clippings.

Processing information

Inventory by Horst Lademacher in 1958; updated with supplement and additional corrections by Ursula Balzer in 2010.

Alternate Form of Material

Security microfilms 1979.