Josef Peukert Papers

Period 1880-1910 (-1914)
Total size   0.3 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Albrechtshof, Bohemia 1855, died in Chicago 1910; anarchist; expelled from France in 1880; active in Switzerland, Austria, England and the USA; delegate at the International Anarchist Congress of 1881; editor of Die Zukunft in Vienna; published Die Autonomie in London in 1884, a rival periodical to Freiheit of Johann Most, his enemy since mutual accusations around the arrest and condemnation of the anarchist Johann Neve in Germany split the German exile movement; lived in France from 1887, using the names of Jacques Bernard and Eduard Pohl; emigrated to New York in 1890 and edited Der Anarchist.

Content

Correspondence with a great number of persons, mainly anarchists, including Rudolf Grossmann (also with his widow Maria Peukert) 1908-1910, Johann Most 1884, Otto Rinke and his wife 1890-1899 and Johann (John) Neve 1882-1887; some correspondence with Claus Timmermann on The Anarchist St. Louis/New York 1890 and n.d., and with Abraham Isaak on The Firebrand Portland, Oregon 1897; correspondence with his sister and brother-in-law 1882-1891; agenda and notebooks 1880, 1885, 1887 and n.d.; manuscripts, including his memoirs (published by Gustav Landauer); some manuscripts by others; some notes; printed documents; press clippings relating to Peukert's role in the arrest of Neve and to the high treason trials in Germany 1886-1888; press clippings of reviews of Peukert's memoirs 1914, etc.

NB. Originally part of the Landauer papers.

Processing information

Inventory by Andreas Schrabauer and Ursula Balzer in 2010