Carl Klings

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Carl Klings (born March 3, 1828 in Wald near Solingen ; died after 1900) was a German cutler and socialist .

Life

Carl Klings was the son of Johann Peter Klings and Johanna Maria Hallbach and was baptized on March 24, 1828. He played a leading role in the Solingen unrest of March 16 and 17, 1849. In January 1851, Peter Gerhard Roeser spoke to numerous workers in Solingen who were connected to the Communist League in Cologne. The Solingen revolutionary Hermann Madenheim gave him, among other things, the collected essays by Karl Marx in 1851 . Klings organized various events and meetings of workers in the years 1855 to 1857. In July 1861 he founded the workers' education association in Solingen. In March 1862 Klings founded a workers' consumer association in Solingen , of which he became the manager. On April 11, 1863, the general assembly of the Solingen workers' education association approved the open reply from the Leipzig Central Committee. Carl Klings was elected to the 17-member board of the ADAV . On June 14, 1863, a community of the General German Workers' Association was formed in Solingen. On September 27, 1863, Ferdinand Lassalle held a meeting in Solingen, which was dissolved by the police because of disturbances by supporters of the German Progressive Party . After Lassalle's death, Klings turned to Karl Marx on September 28, 1864 with the question of who would be a suitable successor to Lassalle: Bernhard Becker or Moses Hess . Marx replied: “Both are honest. None of them is able to direct a significant movement. ”In the subsequent battles within the ADAV, Siebel stood against President Becker and supported Sophie von Hatzfeldt . At the same time it is reported that he stood by Marx and Friedrich Engels “with fervor and blood”.

In 1869 Carl Klings emigrated to the USA with his family . In March 1872 he gave a speech to the German comrades in memory of the Paris Commune . In the summer of 1872 he represented one of the three German-speaking Chicago sections at the first federal congress of the International in New York. Wilhelm Liebknecht , who had written numerous articles for the Workingmen's Advocat , asked Friedrich Adolf Sorge Klings to get his contributions paid.

In 1874 he founded the newspaper "Harbinger" in Chicago . He was a member of "The Workingmen's Party of Illinois", which pursued socialist goals. and the Workingmen's Party of the United States (WPUS) founded in 1876. In 1870 he founded the weekly newspaper "Der Deutsche Arbeiter".

He took American citizenship in 1874 . At the 1880 census in Cook , Illinois , Karl Klings's family consisted of his wife Bertha (born 1830), daughter Hulda (born 1863), and sons Carl (born 1865) and Max (born 1877). In the 1900 census, he lived in Ward 9, Cook, Illinois. It will no longer be recorded in the next census. Presumably he died between 1901 and 1910.

literature

  • Hermann Schlueter : The International in America. A Contribution to the History of the Labor Movement in the United States. (= Socialist Workers' Library. 6). German language group of the Socialist Party of the United States, Chicago 1918.
  • Heinz Rosenthal : The beginnings of the labor movement in Solingen 1849–1868. Published by the SPD sub-district Langenfeld, Langenfeld 1953.
  • Karl-Heinz Leidigkeit: On the tradition of the League of Communists after the Cologne Communist Trial. In: Contributions to the history of the German labor movement. Issue 4, Berlin 1962, pp. 866-869.
  • Heinz Hümmler: Opposition to Lassalle. The revolutionary proletarian opposition in the General German Workers' Association 1862 / 63–1866. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1963, p. 90 ff.
  • The First International in Germany (1864–1872). Documents and materials. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1964.
  • Martin Hundt : Klings, Carl. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, 1970, pp. 241-242.
  • Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with German Social Democrats. Volume I: 1862-1878. Edited by Georg Eckert . Van Gorcum & Comp., Assen 1973, ISBN 90-232-0858-7 , pp. 422, 813.
  • The League of Communists. Documents and materials. 1849-1851. Volume 2, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 229-232.
  • The League of Communists. Documents and materials. 1851-1852. Volume 3, Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1984, pp. 261, 455, 458, 486, 487.
  • Christiane Kling-Mathey: Countess Hatzfeld. 1805 to 1881. A biography. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachfl., 1989, ISBN 3-8012-0142-2 , pp. 154, 159, 286, 292.
  • Elliot Shore, Ken Fones-wolf (Ed.): The German-American radical press. The shaping of a left political culture, 1850-1940. University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1992, ISBN 0-252-01830-3 .
  • Timothy Messer-Kruse: The Haymarket conspiracy. Transatlantic anarchist networks. University of Illinois Press, Urbana 2012, ISBN 978-0-252-03705-4 , pp. 45, 46, 196.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558–1898 Familysearch
  2. ↑ Heinz Rosenthal, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Heinz Rosenthal, p. 11.
  4. ↑ Karl Marx: Collected essays. ed. by Hermann Becker, Cologne 1851.
  5. ↑ Heinz Rosenthal, p. 12.
  6. ↑ Heinz Rosenthal, p. 13 f.
  7. ↑ Heinz Rosenthal, p. 21.
  8. ↑ Heinz Rosenthal, p. 23.
  9. ↑ Carl Klings to Friedrich Moll and Julius Melchior May 27, 1864. ( Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Section III. Volume 12. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-004984-7 , pp. 1311 f.)
  10. ↑ Heinz Rosenthal, p. 28 ff.
  11. ↑ Marx-Engels Complete Edition. Department III. Volume 12, p. 649.
  12. ^ Karl Marx to Carl Klings (draft) October 4, 1864. In: Marx-Engels-Werke . Volume 31, p. 415.
  13. ^ Carl Siebel to Marx February 1, 1865. Quoted from Christiane Kling-Mathey, p. 159.
  14. ↑ August Vogt to Julius Vahlteich undated (1865): "Klings, one of your best friends ran away from Solingen because he could no longer hold himself due to debts". (Georg Eckert, p. 813.)
  15. ^ Bert Andréas : On the agitation and propaganda of the General German Workers' Association 1863/64. In: Archives for Social History . Volume 3, 1963, p. 330.
  16. ^ Wilhelm Liebknecht. Letters to the Chicago Workingman's Advocate. Ed. U. a. by Philip S. Foner. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  17. ^ FA Sorge to Liebknecht July 12, 1872. (Georg Eckert, AS. 422.)
  18. ↑ Timothy Messer-Kruse, p. 45 f.
  19. ↑ Michael J Schaack: Anarchy and anarchists. A history of the Red terror and the social revolution in America and Europe. Communism, socialism, and nihilism in doctrine and in deed. The Chicago Haymarket conspiracy, and the detection and trial of the conspirators. FJ Schulte & Co., Chicago 1889, p. 45.
  20. ↑ Richard Schneirov: Laboratory and urban politics. Class conflict and the origins of modern liberalism in Chicago, 1864–97. University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1998, p. 71.
  21. ^ Illinois, Northern District Naturalization Index, 1840-1950 Familysearch
  22. ↑ United States Census, 1880 Familysearch
  23. ↑ 1900 United States Federal Census Familysearch ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / us-census.mooseroots.com
personal data
SURNAME Klings, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klings, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American cutler and socialist
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest
DATE OF DEATH after 1900