Conrad Schramm

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Conrad Bernhard Schramm (also Konrad Schramm ; born August 21, 1822 in Krefeld , † January 15, 1858 in Saint Helier on Jersey ) was a German revolutionary , journalist and friend of Marx and Engels .

Life

Conrad Schramm was the son of a businessman. He was the youngest of the eight brothers and sisters. One of his brothers was Rudolph Schramm . Schramm completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked temporarily as a private teacher. In 1846 he deserted from the Prussian army, but returned to Germany after the beginning of the revolution.

He took part in the revolution of 1848/1849 in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg and was among other things editor of the Kieler Demokratie Wochenblatt . In May 1849 he was arrested in Hanover together with Karl Bruhn when he was traveling with Theodor Hagen's passport , but broke out of the Jülich Fortress on September 8, 1849 and emigrated to Great Britain . In London, he again contacted Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, joined the Communist League and became a member of its central authority. Schramm was the responsible "guarantor" of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung founded by Marx in 1850 . Politische Revue , Hamburg , six issues of which have been published.

After the split in the Communist League in the fall of 1850, Schramm supported the Marx and Engels line. The quarrel between the two factions of the Communist League was so violent that there was even a duel between August Willich and Schramm, which, however, went smoothly for both of them. Between 1852 and 1857 Schramm was in exile with one of his sisters in the United States . Marx helped him there to work on the Hochwächter published by Karl Otto-Reventlow in Cincinnati . In mid-July 1857, Schramm , who had tuberculosis , returned to England and, on medical advice, settled in St. Helier on Jersey, where Marx and Engels visited him for the last time.

Marx wrote about Schramm - according to him "one of a best friend":

“Schramm's impetuous, daring, fire-fighting nature, which never allowed itself to be tied by everyday interests, was saturated with critical understanding, original thinking, ironic humor and naive cosiness. He was the Percy hotshot of our party "

- Marx : Mr. Vogt

literature

  • Karl Marx: Mr. Vogt (1860). In: Marx-Engels works. Vol. 14, 4th edition 1972, Dietz Verlag, Berlin, pp. 381-686.
  • Franz Mehring : Karl Marx. History of his life (new edition 1918). In: ders .: Collected writings . Volume 3. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1960, pp. 3-552 (on Schramm: see pp. 198, 208, 212, 256 and 262).
  • N. Rumjanceva: Konrad Schramm . In: Marx and Engels and the first proletarian revolutionaries . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1965, pp. 392-420. Photography after p. 400.
  • Walter Schmidt : Schramm: Konrad . In: History of the German labor movement . Biographical Lexicon . Dietz, Berlin 1970, p. 411.
  • Contemporaries of Marx and Engels. Selected letters from the years 1844 to 1852 . Edited and annotated by Kurt Koszyk and Karl Obermann . Van Gorcum & Comp, Assen / Amsterdam 1975 (= sources and studies on the history of the German and Austrian labor movement. New series. Ed. Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam Volume VI.) Contains 19 letters from and to Konrad Schramm
  • Dieter Hangebruch: Conrad Schramm. A revolutionary from Krefeld . In: The home. Krefeld yearbook. Journal for Niederrheinische Kultur- und Heimatpflege , Volume 60 (November 1989), pp. 123-137.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Marx to Ferdinand Lassalle dated February 22, 1858
  2. ^ Marx-Engels works . Vol. 14. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 445.
personal data
SURNAME Schramm, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schramm, Konrad; Schramm, Conrad Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1858
Place of death Saint Helier