Carl Derossi

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Commemorative sheet for the Gotha Party Congress in 1875. Carl Derossi bottom far left.

Max Carl Derossi (also Karl Derossi ; born February 4, 1844 in Düsseldorf , † May 29, 1910 in New York City ) was a German-American hat maker and politician of the early social democracy .

Life

Carl Derossi had been a member of the General German Workers' Association (ADAV) since 1868/69 . At the ADAV party congress in 1871 he was elected secretary. In 1873 the party congress confirmed him as secretary. At the unification party congress of ADAV and the Social Democratic Workers 'Party of Germany for the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP) he was re-elected secretary alongside the former SDAP member Ignaz Auer and confirmed in 1876. Carl Derossi was elected to the central election committee in 1877. From 1875 to 1880 he worked for the “Rechts-Zeitung. Tageblatt for Hamburg-Altona and the surrounding area ”.

Derossi also dealt with Karl Marx's work Herr Vogt and the counter-writ by Carl Vogt Mein Trial against the Allgemeine Zeitung. Shorthand report, documents and explanations , Geneva 1859. He read this book carefully and made numerous notes. The Yearbook for Social Science and Social Policy , Zurich 1879, from the possession of Derossi, has also come down to us.

Later, from 1878, he worked for the social democratic financier Carl Höchberg . During the socialist law he was in exile in Zurich . There, too, he was involved in the production of the press products smuggled into Germany. He was one of the employees of the "Zurich cooperative printing company". In 1884 he immigrated to the USA and worked there for some workers' newspapers, such as B. as editor of the "Kürnscher Zeitung" and the "Textilarbeiters". Derossi was also the secretary of the Social Democratic Labor Party in the United States. In 1896 Carl Derossi defended the class struggle position against the American union leader Samuel Gompers in the Hamburg Echo . Part of his estate went to the workers library of the American Social Democratic Workers Party (SDAP), New York section.

Quotes

" Now Derossi in Hamburg - an old like-minded fellow of H (asselmann), but a thoroughly good guy with an open head and an 'honest' heart - has written to Breslau for a candidacy for H. "

- quoted Wilhelm Bracke to Friedrich Engels February 6, 1877.

Works

  • Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis : Capital and Labor. A concise presentation of Marx's teaching. Translated by C. Derossi. J. Dehler, New-York 1887
  • Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis: Capital and Labor. A concise presentation of Marx's teaching. Translated by C. Derossi. Separate print from the printing assistant organ “Forward!” . E. Krajk, Vienna 1889

Poems

  • Wake up, people, wake up!
  • The socialists triumphant advance
  • Celebration of work

literature

  • Karl Marx Friedrich Engels. Correspondence with Wilhelm Bracke (1869–1880) . Published on behalf of the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED and introduced by Heinrich Gemkow . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1963, p. 113 and p. 115.
  • Horst Bartel u. a .: The Social Democrat 1879–1890 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1974, pp. 30, 60, 136.
  • Dieter Fricke : The German labor movement 1869-1914. A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 73, 94, 110, 113, 115, 122.
  • Carol Poore: German-American Socialist Literature. 1865-1900. Anthology . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1987, p. 73 and p. 98. (= text editions on early socialist literature in Germany, vol. 24)
  • Angela Graf: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Dietz - publisher of the social democrats. Biographical approach to political life . Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 1996, pp. 45, 49, 95. 

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Graf: JHW Dietz , pp. 48–54 on the court newspaper .
  2. ↑ The book with the marginalia was offered for sale in a Viennese second-hand bookshop in 2011.
  3. ^ Library of the German Socialists in Cleveland, Ohio.
  4. ↑ Letters and excerpts from letters from Joh. Phil. Becker, Jos. Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx a. a. to FA Sorge and others , JHW ​​Dietz Nachsteiger, Stuttgart 1906, p. 222.
  5. ^ The Samuel Gompers Papers. A national labor movement takes shape, 1895–1898. Vol. 4. University of Illinois 1991, ISBN 0-252-01138-4
  6. ^ SPD library, sign. 4302, Federal Archives SAPMO, sign. 57/4255.
  7. ↑ In Carol Poore.
  8. ↑ ibid.
  9. ^ Manuscript in: Sozialistische Liedertafel archives, Lincoln Center Music Library , New York
personal data
SURNAME Derossi, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Derossi, Max Carl (full name); Derossi, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American hat maker and politician of the early social democracy
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1910
Place of death New York City