Bert Andréas

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Herbert Friedrich Andréas (born October 1, 1914 in Hamburg ; † October 6, 1984 in Geneva ) was a German historian and bibliographer .

Life

The son of the commercial employee Hermann Bernhard Andreas (1884-1948) and his wife Emma Stiehler (1877-1948) attended the elementary school Rellingerstraße in Hamburg from 1920, switched to the Realschule Weidenstieg at Easter 1924 and finally to the grammar school Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer . In 1928 he joined the Communist Youth Association of Germany (KJVD).

From 1931 he worked as a journalist a . a. for the Hamburger Fremdblatt . From autumn 1931 to February 1933 he attended the adult education center in Berlin and heard public lectures by Ludwig Geiger and Gustav Mayer . From 1932 to 1934 he was responsible for the DERUTA active (German-Russian transport and storage-GmbH, Hamburg) and belonged to the KPD -Stadtteilleitung Hamburg-Sternschanze on. After the National Socialists came to power , he was imprisoned in March and April 1933 because of his political views. In 1934 he published his anti-militarist and anti-Nazi book Mata Hari .

In October 1934 he fled to the Saar region , then to Paris and Belgium . On behalf of the party, he went to Brazil in the spring of 1935 ( pseudonym l'oncle Bello ). In 1936 he was in exile in Holland . During the time of National Socialism he took on the first name Bert in admiration of Bert Brecht . After the German invasion of Holland in May 1940, he was forced into the 351st Infantry Division (Münster / Westphalia) in February 1941 , but released in April 1941 as unworthy of defense. He lost his German citizenship , which he only regained from the Federal Republic of Germany in 1953. From December to June 1943 he was in Gestapo detention in the Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp . Bert Andréas belonged to the "Raad van verzet" (Dutch Resistance) from the end of 1943. From May 1944 to spring 1952 he worked for sales and as managing director of the publishing house Republiek de Letteren in Amsterdam.

Towards the end of the war he began collecting a library on the theory and practice of the labor movement, which in 1951 already had 2,800 titles. He tried to gain a foothold in this area through Bruno Kaiser , who was then head of the later library of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . From 1952 to 1962 he worked at the Bibliotheca Giangiacomo Feltrinelli . During this time he discovered unknown documents from the Marx family and found the library of the Geneva General Labor Association, founded in 1840, with copies by Moses Hess and Johann Philipp Beckers in a coal cellar. His most important academic work was probably his bibliography of the prints and translations of the Communist Party's manifesto . For the first time, six different title pages of the first edition from 1848 were determined and important information about the history of printing was determined. His bibliography on the early writings of Marx and Engels is at the same time an international impact history of the works of Marx and Engels.

Since 1968 Bert Andréas was employed at the Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales (IUHEI), Geneva , without teaching commitment. In this last period of life (1966–1984) Andréas devoted himself, together with Wolfgang Mönke , Jacques Grandjonc and Hans Pelger, to researching the life of Marx and Engels from 1844 to the Manifesto. The edition of the Deutsche-Brusser-Zeitung and the research by the Association Démocratique deserve special mention .

The library of around 20,000 volumes from his estate is in the Karl-Marx-Haus , Trier. Grandjonc inherited manuscripts, correspondence and personal documents in his will.

Works (selection)

  • Mata Hari . Uhlenhorst Verlag, Hamburg 1934.
  • T'jen Tsjun: Tchifong Dorp in Augustus . Vertaald by B. Andréas . Pegasus, Amsterdam 1949.
  • La sezione tedesca della Biblioteca Feltrinelli. In: Avanti. Milano, June 19, 1952, p. 3.
  • Theun de Vries : Baptism by Fire . 3 volumes. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1953.
  • Theun de Vries: Kaddish . Story from occupied Holland. In: Structure. Cultural-political monthly. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin No. 9 September 1957, pp. 257-268.
  • A brochure and an almost unknown pamphlet by Engels on the peasant question. In: Soviet Science. Social contributions. Berlin July 1957. No. 7, pp. 878-883.
  • "I am not a Marxist". In: The Other Newspaper . Hamburg 4th year, March 20, 1958 No. 12, p. 4.
  • Communist magazine. London 1847. Test sheet of the original copy in the Swiss Social Archives in Zurich, incorporated. by Bert Andréas. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 1960.
  • Letters and documents from the Marx family from 1862–1873 along with two unknown essays by Friedrich Engels. In: Archives for Social History. Volume II. Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Hanover 1962, pp. 167–293. (on-line)
  • Le Manifeste Communiste de Marx et Engels. Histoire et bibliographie 1818–1918 . Feltrinelli, Milano 1963.
  • On the agitation and propaganda of the General German Workers' Association 1863/64. In: Archives for Social History. Volume III Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Hannover 1963, pp. 297–423. (on-line)
  • Marx on the SPD, Bismarck and the Socialist Law . In: Archives for Social History. Volume V Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen Hannover, 1965, pp. 363–376. (on-line)
  • Marx et Engels et la gauche héglienne. In: Annali dell'Istituto Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Milano Vol. VII., 1965, pp. 353-526.
  • To Engels's criticism of the Bible. In: Archives for Social History. Volume VI / VII Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen Hannover, 1966/67, pp. 579–581. (on-line)
  • with Wolfgang Mönke : New data on the “ German Ideology ”. With an unknown letter from Karl Marx and other documents . Archive for social history . Volume VIII. Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen Hannover, 1968, pp. 167–293. (on-line)
  • with Wolfgang Mönke: An unknown letter from Karl Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer . In: Contributions to the history of the German labor movement. January 1968. No. 1, pp. 49-67.
  • as publisher: founding documents of the League of Communists (June to September 1847) . Hauswedell, Hamburg 1969.
  • La Première Internationale. Receuill de documents publié sous la direction de Jacques Freymond . Tom III. and Tome IV. Texts établis et annotés by Bert Andréas and Miklós Molnár. Genève 1971.
  • Two articles by Engels from the People's State. In: Friedrich Engels. 1820-1870. Papers discussions documents. Editor: Hans Pelger. Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Hanover 1971, pp. 302–317.
  • Marx 'arrest and expulsion from Brussels February / March 1848 . (= Writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus . Issue 22). Trier 1978
  • Ferdinand Lassalle - General German Workers' Association : Bibliography of their writings and the literature about them from 1840 to 1975 . Bonn, 1981, ISBN 3-87831-336-5 .
  • with Jacques Grandjonc and Hans Pelger: Deutsche-Brusser-Zeitung . January 1, 1847 - February 27, 1848. Facsimile and introduction with annotations. Editions Culture et Civilization, Bruxelles 1981.
  • Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels. The end of classical German philosophy. Bibliography . (= Writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus. Issue 28). Trier 1983.
  • with Jacques Grandjonc and Hans Pelger (eds.): Unknowns from Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. Part I: 1840-1874 . (= Writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus. Issue 33). Trier 1986.
  • Studies on Marx's first stay in Paris and the development of the German ideology . (= Writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus. Issue 43). Trier 1990, ISBN 3-926132-16-7 .
  • with Jacques Gandjonc and Hans Pelger (eds.): Association Démocratique, ayant pour but l'union et la fraternité de tous les peuples. An early international democratic association in Brussels 1847–1848 . (= Writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus. Issue 44). Arranged by Helmut Elsner and Elisabeth Neu. Trier 2004, ISBN 3-86077-847-1 .

Selection of discovered texts by Marx and Engels

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutscher Reichsanzeiger and Prussian State Gazette. No. 98 of April 29, 1941, p. 1.
  2. ^ Jacques Grandjonc: Une vie d´exilé Bert Andréas 1914-1984. Repères chronologiques et activité scientifique . Trier 1987, p. 24.
  3. ↑ Dagmar Goldbeck, p. 25.
  4. ^ Founding documents pp. 53–58.
  5. ↑ A brochure and an almost unknown pamphlet by Engels on the peasant question
  6. ^ Marx on the SPD, Bismarck and the Socialist Law.
personal data
SURNAME Andréas, Bert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andreas, Herbert Friedrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, bibliographer and Marx-Engels researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1984
Place of death near Geneva