Fritz Brupbacher Papers

Period (1886) 1892-1945
Total size 13 microfilms
Consultation  Not restricted

Biography

Born in Zurich 1874, died in Zurich 1945; socialist and libertarian; physician, writer; played a role in his native town of Zurich, both as a socialist and as a physician in workers' quarters; had a broad international orientation and extensive contacts with socialists, anarchists, communists, writers and artists; member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz (SPS) in 1898; married Lydia Petrovna Kočetkova in 1901; influenced by French revolutionary syndicalism; founded a Swiss antimilitarist league in 1905; founded with his friend Max Tobler the socialist monthly Polis 1906-1908; contributed to La Vie Ouvrière and French syndicalist papers; expelled from the party in 1914 because of his anarchist leanings; member of the Kommunistische Partei der Schweiz in 1921; went to the Soviet Union as a delegate of the Internationale Arbeiter-Hilfe (IAH) in 1921; in the 1920s Paulette Raygrodski became his companion; expelled from the communist party in 1933; propagated sexual education and the right of abortion; his publications include `Marx und Bakunin', `Der Sinn des Lebens' 1938/39, and his autobiography `60 Jahre Ketzer' 1935.

Content

Correspondence with family members and with Friedrich Adler, Vera Figner, Max Friedemann, Rudolf Hahn, Max Horkheimer, Otto Lang, Georg Ledebour, Willi Münzenberg, Wilhelm Reich, Alfred Sanftleben, Victor Serge and many others.

NB. Originals at the Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv, Zurich.

Processing information

Inventory of 1991

Location of originals

Originals in the Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv Zurich