Alfred Rosmer

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Rosmer (between Leon Trotsky and Paul Levi) at the II Congress of the Comintern, 1920

Alfred Rosmer (born August 23, 1877 in Paterson near New York ; † May 6, 1964 in Créteil , France ) was a French syndicalist and later communist ( PCF , EKKI ).

Life

Rosmer was friends with the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky since his exile in France during the First World War. In 1937 Rosmer was a member of the Dewey Commission , which examined the allegations made against Trotsky in the Moscow show trial . In September 1938 the founding congress of the Fourth International took place in Rosmer's house near Paris.

In 1939 he and his wife Marguerite brought Trotsky's grandson Vsevolod Volkov to Mexico and lived there in Trotsky's house in Coyoacan . The later murderer of Trotsky, Ramón Mercader , befriended Rosmer and used visits to the long sick to scout the property.

In 1960 Rosmer was one of the signatories of the 121 manifesto on the right to conscientious objection in the Algerian war .

Trivia

In the film The Girl and the Murderer - The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) Alfred Rosmer is played by Jean Desailly and Marguerite Rosmer by Simone Valère .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography in the Marxists Internet Archive
  2. Wadim S. Rogowin : World Revolution and World War , Mehring 2002, ISBN 3-88634-082-1 , p. 334
  3. Jörg von Uthmann: Assassination. Murder with a clear conscience. Verlag Siedler, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-572-01263-5 , pp. 129/130