Johann Philipp Becker Papers

Period Ca. 1851-1885
Total size  1 microfilm
Consultation Not restricted
User restriction Permission required for publication. Please, contact RGASPI (formerly RCChIDNI)

Biography

Born in Frankenthal, Pfalz 1809, died in Geneva 1886; broom maker, later cigar manufacturer and journalist; fled for political reasons to Switzerland in 1838; became a Swiss citizen and participated in the Sonderbund war; was in command of a unit of a revolutionary German army in Southern Germany 1848-1849; member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterverein (ADAV) from 1863; participated in the founding of the International Working Men's Association (IWMA) in 1864 and became head of the section for the German speaking countries; one of the founders of the German Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei (SDAP) in 1869; editor of Der Vorbote 1866-1871 and of Le Précurseur 1877-1882.

Content

Notebooks; draft manifestos, including the manuscript of `An die Deutschen'; passport; copy of `Die internationale Arbeiter-Association und die Arbeiterbewegung in Basel' by Becker; letters by Becker to Giuseppe Garibaldi, August Geib, Paul Lafargue, Ferdinand Lassalle, Friedrich Lessner, Julius Motteler, Friedrich Sorge and others; letters to Becker from Karl Bruhn, Petr Struve and others; 1851 autobiography and autobiographical notes.

NB. Originals at the RGASPI (Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History), the former RCChIDNI, Moscow, fund 185.

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Originals at the RCChIDNI, Moscow