Johann Philipp Becker Papers

Period  (1841-) 1848-1886
Total size   1.12 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Becker, Johann Philipp. 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

Letters from Michail Bakunin 1868-1870, Sophie von Hatzfeldt 1864-1865, Georg Herwegh 1865-1871, Hermann Jung 1868-1873, Ferdinand Lassalle 1863-1864, Wilhelm Liebknecht 1866-1881 and n.d., Julius Motteler 1877-1884, Theodor Remy 1861-1875, Friedrich A. Sorge 1867-1884, Paul Stumpf 1866-1882 and others; some original letters by J.P. Becker; manuscripts; handwritten statutes and rules, proceedings and resolutions; deeds; manuscripts by others; some printed material.

Arrangement

A first inventory -made in the 1960s- has been updated and edited by Ursula Balzer in 2008; a number of documents which were overlooked originally have been included in it (see inv. nos. add. 1-65) and the packaging has been renewed.

Processing information

Inventory by Ursula Balzer in 2008

Alternate Form of Material

Security microfilms publication by Fr. Ebert Stiftung 1979. Partly published in: Documents relatifs aux militants Belges de L'Association Internationale des Travailleurs. Correspondance 1865-1872. Textes réunis, établis et annotés par Daisy Eveline Devreese. Louvain/Bruxelles, 1986; Wilhelm Liebknecht, Briefwechsel mit deutschen Sozialdemokraten . Band 1. 1862-1878. Hrsg. und bearbeitet von Georg Eckert. Assen, 1973. Band 2. 1878-1884 . Hrsg. von Götz Langkau unter Mitwirkung von Ursula Balzer und Jan Gielkens. Frankfurt/M. [etc.], 1988; Zeitgenossen von Marx und Engels. Ausgewählte Briefe aus den Jahren 1844 bis 1852. Hrsg. und annotiert von Kurt Koszyk und Karl Obermann. Assen, 1975.