Benno Karpeles Papers

Period (1878-) 1892-1905
Total size   0.12 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Vienna 1868, died in Vienna 1938; studied economics in London 1894-1897; met leaders of the British labour movement; London correspondent for the Viennese Arbeiter-Zeitung; participated in the organization for Austrian social democrats in Switzerland 1897-1899; returned to Vienna and became the social-political editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung; representative for the Austrian trade unions to the Second International; devoted from 1904 to the organization of the socialist consumers' cooperations; his project the `Hammerbrot-Werke' industrial bakery led to financial difficulties and disaccord with the Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei in Österreich (SDAP); after 1918 criticized the social democratic party in his own journal Der Frieden; converted to catholicism and tried to reconcile the social democrats with the church. Letters from Eduard and Regina Bernstein 1892-1899 and n.d., Karl and Luise Kautsky 1897-1905 and Eleanor Marx-Aveling 1896-1897.

Content

Letters from Eduard and Regina Bernstein 1892-1899 and n.d., Karl and Luise Kautsky 1897-1905 and Eleanor Marx Aveling 1896-1897 and n.d.

Processing information

Inventory by Johannes Beermann in 2010