Julius Cracker

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Julius Cracker
Julius Kracker, 2nd from the top right. (Poster from 1890 on the fall of the Socialist Law)

Julius Kracker (born June 26, 1839 in Breslau ; † October 2, 1888 ibid) was a German social democratic politician and saddler .

Life

Kracker attended a so-called factory school and then an elementary school until the age of 14. He learned the trade of a saddler . As a journeyman, he made a journey through Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia. In 1867 he co-founded a workers 'association and a year later he joined the General German Workers' Association (ADAV). In the same year he organized a joint union-like organization for bookbinders, lithographers, saddlers, upholsterers, glove makers and leather workers in Wroclaw. In 1869 and 1870, Kracker was the agent of the ADAV in Breslau.

In 1870 he joined the SDAP . From 1876 Kracker was editor of various social democratic papers in Breslau. Between 1879 and 1885 he was a cigar dealer and then co-owner of a printing company and a publishing house. He also continued to write for various Social Democratic newspapers, among others, The lantern of Carl Hirsch . In 1880, Kräcker was the editor of Karl Marx's wage labor and capital , after corresponding with Friedrich Engels .

Between 1881 and 1888 Julius Kracker was a member of the Reichstag for the "constituency of Breslau 7" (western part of the city of Breslau). During the time of the Socialist Law he played an important role in the illegal party organization. As a party publisher, he founded the company "Julius Kracker Buchdruckerei- und Verlaggeschäft Silesia". He took part in the illegal party convention in Copenhagen in 1888 . Kracker was arrested several times. On July 18, 1887, immediately after the end of the session of the Reichstag, Kracker was arrested on the street in Berlin and held in custody for five months before he was in the 'Breslau secret society trial against Julius Kracker and comrades' (November 7th to 17th, 1887 ) was sentenced to seven months in prison. Easter 1888 he had to enter the prison sentence. He was taken from prison to hospital in September and died of cancer on October 2, 1888.

At the first legal party congress of the SPD in Erfurt in 1890, a wreathed picture by Kracker was hung next to pictures of other deceased former leading Social Democrats in the negotiating room.

Works

  • The truth. Democratic-socialist weekly paper . (April 1, 1876 sample number; May 7, 1876 to October 20, 1878)
  • The Silesian narrator . Edited by Julius Kracker, Breslau 1878 (prohibited from No. 16 according to § 28 of the Socialist Law)
  • The Silesian Courier . Edited by Julius Kracker, Breslau 1878 (prohibited on December 21, 1878 according to Section 28 of the Socialist Law)
  • A little more light on the causes of the emergency in Upper Silesia . Verlag der Schlesische Volksbuchhandlung, Breslau 1880
  • [Ed.]: Karl Marx. Wage labor and capital . Verlag der Schlesische Volksbuchhandlung, Breslau 1880
  • The struggle against socialism. A lecture that was not given . Verlag der Schlesische Volksbuchhandlung, Breslau 1880
  • History of the Jews in Wroclaw. A time and morals from Breslau's past . H. Zimmer, Breslau 1880
  • Three Reichstag speeches: Cracker on the workbooks. Grillenberger on the health insurance law. Hasenclever on the timber tariffs. Verbatim copy of the official stenographic report . Self-published by Grillenberger, Nuremberg 1883

literature

  • Julius Kracker † . In: Der Sozialdemokrat , No. 42, October 13, 1888.
  • August Bebel : Julius Kracker . In: Illustriter New World Calendar . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1890, pp. 67-68.
  • Heinz Lux: Julius Kracker . In: Friedrich Andreae (Ed.): Schlesische Lebensbilder.Schlesier des 18. und 19. Century . Volume 2. Korn, Breslau 1926, pp. 313-317 (2nd edition J. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1985 ISBN 3-7995-6192-7 )
  • Theodor Müller (Ed.): 45 leaders from the beginnings and the heroic age of the Breslau social democracy . Robert Hermann, Breslau 1925, p. 36, fes.de (PDF).
  • Julius Cracker . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism. Deceased personalities . Volume 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, p. 171.
  • Fritz Schaaf: Kracker, Julius . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 253.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Fricke: The German Workers Movement 1869-1914. A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, p. 388.
  2. ^ IISG , Amsterdam Marx-Engels-Nachlass, signature L 2808-2811 (4 letters).
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 70.
  4. ↑ See also his six letters under the code name 'Epilog' from 1884 (IISG, Amsterdam Julius Motteler Nachlass signature 733).
  5. ↑ August Bebel to Julie Bebel June 21, 1887. (Ursula Herrmann (Hrsg.): August and Julie Bebel. Briefe einer Ehe. JHW Dietz Successor, Bonn 1997 ISBN 3-8012-0243-7 , p. 494).
  6. ^ Francis L. Carsten: August Bebel and the organization of the masses. Siedler, 1991, ISBN 3-88680-371-6 , p. 127.
personal data
SURNAME Cracker, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1888
Place of death Wroclaw