Gerhard Kumleben

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Gerhard Franz Kumleben , also Francis Gérard-Kumleben , (born August 29, 1901 in Alt-Rahlstedt near Hamburg , † August 1, 1974 in Meudon near Paris ) was a Franco-German journalist, political activist and author.

Life

Kumleben, who lived in Wandsbek around 1920 , was in 1925 a “candidate for a higher teaching post”. In the 1920s and 1930s he was an activist for the International Socialist Fighting League (ISK). In 1930 he recruited members for the Socialist Vanguard Group (SVG) in England . He worked as a translator and wrote articles a. a. on topics such as class justice and workplace problems for various magazines such as Die Weltbühne , isk - magazine of the International Socialist Struggle Association and Sozialistische Warte and wrote a number of brochures and books - some under the pseudonym François Girard . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he emigrated to France and lived with Nora Platiel , Eva and Hans Lewinski in the Parisian workers' suburb of Malakoff . Their son, Roger, emerged from the relationship with Nora Platiel.

Kumleben worked for the ISK in France as a journalist and agitator. After the end of the occupation of France by the Nazi regime, he was secretary of the Comité français pour la fédération européenne (CFFE), an organization that promoted European federalism ; In 1945 he carried out the transformation of the CFFE into the Comité international pour la Fédération européenne (CIFE).

After the end of the war he left Paris. T. as Francis Gérard-Kumleben - continued his journalistic activities in the Federal Republic, u. a. in a “sociological consideration of atomic physics”, published in Die Umschau. International revue . He also wrote in 1949 for Dolf Sternberger's magazine Die Wandlung . and foreign policy, magazine for international issues . In May 1948 he took part in the Congress of Europe in The Hague as a syndicalist for France . For radio in West Germany he commented from Paris on European problems and the work of the National Assembly . In the 1960s he was Directeur de la Redaction Technique for Industries Atomiques magazine .

Works (selection)

  • Working-class children and higher schools in Hamburg . In: ISK 1 (11), pp. 186-188
  • Gerhard Kumleben (Ed.): Jakob Friedrich Fries: 'The Philosophical Theory of Right (1927)
  • The Just State , Manchester: Public Life, 1927
  • Politics of Reason. No. 1 The Just State . London, International Publishing Company, 1927
  • The workers' case for free trade. London Intern. Publishing Co. 1932.
  • François Gerard: About the dictatorship of the proletariat. The perplexed office of the Second International . In: Sozialistische Warte 1/3, July 1934
  • Le Gouvernement du Front Populaire et la paix! . London, Societe d'Editions Internationales. 1936.
  • François Girard: La Republique Socialiste. Ni Democratie, ni Autocratie. London, Societe d'Editions Internationales. 1935.
  • François Girard: Les congregations economiques, voila l'ennemi! Propositions pour une adjonction au program du Front Populaire. London, Societe d'Editions Internationales. 1936.
  • Catholicism and the working class in England.
  • François Girard: La federazione europea e il socialismo (il problema come e veduto dal socialismo americano), PSI, Quaderni d'attualita 3, (March) 1945. Ginzburg, Leone, Scritti, Turin 1964.
  • Gérard Kumleben: Africa in Strasbourg. [On the occasion of a statement by Senghor in the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe] . In: Cahiers de Bruges. Collège d'Europe, 1955

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine) No. 012546.
  2. ^ Hans Vaihinger, Max Scheler , Max frischisen-Köhler, Arthur Liebert, Paul Menzer: Kant studies: philosophical journal , volumes 23-24, W. de Gruyter, 1919
  3. ^ Negotiations, Volumes 1–4, front cover L. Friederichsen & Co., 1925
  4. ^ JM Ritchie : German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain . 2001, p. 59.
  5. ^ For example, treatises from the Fries school . Public Life Publishing House , 1929
  6. ↑ Aiga Seywald: “The” press of the social movements: 1918-1933; Left parties, trade unions, workers' culture movement, anarchism, youth movement, peace movement, life reform, expressionism; Annotated inventory of German-language periodicals in the Institute for Research on the European Labor Movement (Bochum), in the Institute for Newspaper Research of the City of Dortmund and in the Fritz Hüser Institute for German and Foreign Workers' Literature in the City of Dortmund. Klartext Verlag, 1994.
  7. ↑ Die Weltbühne, Volumes 16–28. Athenaeum Publishing House, 1978
  8. ↑ Sabine Lemke-Müller: Ethics of Resistance: The Struggle of the International Socialist Combat League (ISK) against National Socialism: Sources and texts on resistance from the workers' movement 1933-1945 . JHW Dietz, 1996.
  9. ↑ Helga Haas-Rietschel, Sabine Hering: Nora Platiel: Socialist - Emigrant - Politician. A biography . Cologne 1989 ISBN 3-7663-2127-7
  10. ↑ New German Biography, Volume 20 . Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Historical Commission Duncker and Humblot, 2001
  11. ^ Klaus Böhme, Walter Mühlhausen: Hessian Streiflichter: Contributions to the 50th anniversary of the state of Hesse . Eichborn Verlag Ag, 1995.
  12. ↑ Contributions to the history of the labor movement : BZG., Volume 37, Dietz Verlag, 1995, p. 39
  13. ↑ http://www.pressefederaliste.eu/Albert-Camus-et-le-Comite-francais-pour-la-Federation-europeenne
  14. ↑ Quotation from: Geist und Zeit , 1960
  15. ^ Reflections on a book by Raymond Aron , In: Die Wandlung - Volume 4, issues 1-6, 1949, page VI
  16. ^ Jean-Michel Guieu, Christophe Le Dréau: Hague "Congress of Europe" (1948-2008) . 2009
  17. ↑ Heribert Schwan : The radio as an instrument of politics in Saarland 1945-1955 . Spiess, 1974
  18. ^ American Nuclear Society: Directory. 1967, page 93.
  19. ^ The Leonard Nelson holdings in the Archive of Social Democracy at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , 1999
personal data
SURNAME Kumleben, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kumleben, Gerhard Franz (full name); Gérard-Kumleben, Francis; Girard, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German journalist, political activist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Rahlstedt near Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1st August 1974
Place of death Meudon near Paris