Jacob Audorf

Jakob Audorf (wood engraving from 1898)

Jacob Audorf (born August 1, 1835 in Hamburg , † June 20, 1898 ibid) was a German poet , editor and activist of the labor movement .

Life

As the son of the hairscarf weaver Jakob Audorf , he attended the school for the poor . He then learned the locksmith and mechanic trade from 1852 to 1857 . Under the socialist influence of his father, he joined the Hamburg workers' education association as an apprentice. From 1857 to 1862 he went rolling through Germany, Switzerland, France and England.

In Switzerland, Audorf worked from 1858 to 1859 as President of the General German Workers' Education Association (ADAV) in Winterthur . In Paris in 1861 he was a member of the German Workers' Association . In November 1862 he returned to Hamburg, where he supported the formation of the ADAV. On March 28, 1863, a workers' meeting in Hamburg approved Ferdinand Lassalle's open reply .

On her behalf, Audorf and August Perl sent a declaration to the organ of the workers' education associations , the Allgemeine deutsche Arbeiter-Zeitung ( Coburg ). In it they emphasized the common goals of the workers. Audorf took part in the founding congress of the ADAV in Leipzig in 1863. He was elected to the board of directors, which he belonged to until 1868. He was appointed authorized representative of the ADAV in Hamburg and was a participant in the general assemblies of the ADAV in 1864, 1866 and 1867.

He was one of the functionaries of the ADAV who, despite the influence of Lassalle's ideas, campaigned for a clear policy of the workers. Audorf emerged as a political poet of the labor movement, particularly during this time, and thus acted as an agitator for the ADAV. The resulting 1864 Workers Marseillaise ( now, who respects law and truth ) was the end of the 19th century the most common worker song .

From 1868 to 1875 Audorf stayed in Russia for work. After the Gotha Unification Congress in 1875, he returned at the invitation of Hamburg party members and worked from 1875 to 1877 as a member of the editorial team alongside Wilhelm Blos at the Hamburger-Altonaer Volksblatt . When he returned to Germany in 1881 after a second stay in Russia, he was immediately expelled under the Socialist Act.

He stayed in Russia again until 1887. From April 1888 until his death he was an editor at Hamburger Echo , for which he regularly wrote humorous and satirical weekend chats. In poems he polemicized a. a. against militarism and invited to May Day celebrations.

On September 5, 1960, the Audorfring in the Hamburg-Horn district was named after him.

In 1992 the Audorfgasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him.

Fonts

• Workers' Marseillaise , Zurich 1890
• Poems . Stuttgart: Dietz 1893
• Arbeiter-Bundeslied: for four-part male choir with solo quartet . Composition Heinrich Riva . Dresden: Günther 1893
• Forget Me Not. Composition Heinrich Riva. Dresden: Günther 1893
• Victory is ours: for four-part male choir with orchestra or piano accompaniment. Composition Heinrich Riva. Dresden: Günther 1893

literature

• Jakob Audorf jr. Born on August 1st, 1835, died on June 20th, 1898. In: The true Jacob. Illustrated magazine for satire, humor and entertainment . No. 312 of July 5, 1898, pp. 2767 f. Digitized
• Heinz Hümmler: Audorf. Jacob. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 14-15.
• Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Audorf, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 82-84.
• Paul Mayer:  Audorf, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 429 ( digitized version ).
• Jacob Audorf . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . JHW Dietz Verlag, Hanover 1960, p. 12 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Jakob Audorf  - Sources and full texts