Otto Rühle Papers

Period  1933-1943 (-1944)
Total size   0.35 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Gross-Voigtsberg, Germany 1874, died in Mexico City 1943; antiauthoritarian publicist, educationalist, internationalist; member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) in 1896, deputy in the Reichstag 1912-1918; editor of several party periodicals; designed a socialist school programme; one of the founders of the Spartakusbund; chairman of the Vereinigte Arbeiter- und Soldatenrat in Gross-Dresden; militant leader of the extreme left wing of the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) in 1919; one of the founders of the Kommunistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (KAPD) in October 1919; broke with the KAPD in November 1920; initiated the foundation of the Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union, Einheitsorganisation in October 1921; returned to the SPD in 1923; went into exile after the Nazi take-over and settled in Mexico in 1936; helped with the defense of Leon Trotsky.

Content

Correspondence with Erich Fromm 1936-1940, Georg Griesmaier 1936-1937, Henry (Heinz) Jacoby 1936-1943, Paul Mattick 1938-1942, Emil Rabold 1936-1939 and others; with Mexican pedagogical government agencies 1936-1939; with the Alliance Book Corporation, with Longmans, Green and Co. (Alfred Mendel), which correspondence includes photocopies of some letters by Trotsky, and with other publishing houses; manuscripts, including `Brauner und roter Faschismus...Und was dann?', `Weltkrieg Weltfaschismus Weltrevolution' and a number of articles.

Processing information

List made by Klaus Ravenberg