Friedrich Adolf Sorge

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Friedrich Adolph Sorge

Friedrich Adolf (Adolph) Sorge (born November 9, 1828 in Bethau near Torgau , Saxony ; † October 26, 1906 in Hoboken (New Jersey) , USA ) was a German music teacher , revolutionary and communist and long-time correspondent of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels .

Revolutionary struggles in Germany

His father, a Lutheran pastor, taught him at an early age. In Halle an der Saale , from the end of 1842 he attended an institution for training as a teacher. In 1848 he took part in the German Revolution . He fled from the Prussian troops to Switzerland in the spring of 1849. At the time of the Reich constitution campaign , he stayed in Baden, where he joined August Willich and his volunteers.

During the struggles of the Baden Revolution in 1849, he also met Johann Philipp Becker and Friedrich Engels. Again he fled to Switzerland and traveled to Geneva. Here he met Wilhelm Liebknecht . After he had to leave Switzerland in 1851, he went to Belgium. In 1852 he traveled to London, where he visited Karl Marx.

Activities in the USA

In the same year he went to the USA and worked there as a music teacher. In 1857 he co-founded the Communist clubs of New York City . He received American citizenship on June 24, 1857. A year later he was elected president of the club. One of the club's goals was to combat slavery. He founded a section of the International Workers' Association (IAA) in 1867.

In New York City in 1867 he played a key role in the merger of the Communist Club with the General German Workers' Association to form the Social Party , which only existed for a short time. At the end of 1869, the General German Workers' Association was re-established. This joined the National Labor Union . In December 1869 the association became a member of the IAA.

From then on, Sorge was devoted more and more to the expansion of the IAA in the USA. In December 1870 he was elected to the Central Committee of the IAA. In December 1871 he was a member of the Federal Council of the US IAA. In this function he represented the United States Federation in 1872 at the IAA Congress in The Hague . When the General Council of the IAA was relocated to the United States, he assumed the role of Secretary, which he held until September 25, 1874.

Founding a workers' party and working as a writer

From 1875 to 1876 he tried to unite the various social democratic groups and organizations in the USA. Thus, in 1876 in Philadelphia , the Workmen's Party of America formed a year later in Socialist Labor Party renamed. His influence led this party to largely orientate itself towards the IAA. But when the influence of the left-wing extremist tendencies increased in the organization of the workers, he withdrew from direct political work.

In the following years, especially from 1890 to 1904, he wrote several historical writings and worked as a journalist for the newspaper Die Neue Zeit . Since 1871 he was in lively correspondence with Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. By 1895 he had written 147 letters that are known today. Numerous letters were published in Berlin from 1966 to 1968 in volumes 33 to 39 of the Marx-Engels works .

He was the great-uncle of Richard Sorge (1895–1944).

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Honors

In his honor the battalion “Funkelektronischer Kampf 3” in Eilenburg ( Saxony ) was named “Friedrich Adolph Sorge” in the National People's Army on March 1, 1988 . A street in Dresden is named after him.

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  1. ^ Name: Frederick Adolph Sorge; Birth: Prussia; Civil: Jun 24, 1857; Residence: New York
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SURNAME Worry, Friedrich Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Worry, Friedrich Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American workers leader and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Bethau , near Torgau , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1906
Place of death Hoboken, New Jersey , USA