Jacob Moneta

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Jakob Moneta at a rally of the SJD-Die Falken in the 1980s

Jakob Moneta actually Jakub Moneta (born November 11, 1914 in Blasow , Austria-Hungary ; † March 3, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German journalist and party functionary of the PDS . From 1962 to 1978 he was editor-in-chief of IG Metall magazine Metall .

Life

J. Moneta came from a Jewish family. After a pogrom in his hometown in 1918, his family fled to Cologne in 1919 , the hometown of his father, a textile manufacturer. After graduating from high school in 1933, Moneta joined the Socialist Youth Association (SJVD), the youth organization of the Socialist Workers 'Party , and was involved in workers' sports. At the end of 1933 Moneta left Germany and went to a kibbutz in Palestine . He organized union strikes for the 8-hour day and worked with Arabs. In 1939 he left the kibbutz and was interned by the British for 27 months. In the Palestinian Yishuv, Moneta belonged together with Tony Cliff , Jakob Taut, Rudolf Segall and Jabra Nicola to the Trotskyist "League of Revolutionary Communists", which in its manifesto "Against the Current" (1948) advocated a binational Jewish-Arab community within a " United Socialist Arab East "pronounced. After the end of the Second World War he became a journalist and in 1948 returned to Cologne as a staunch internationalist and Trotskyist , where he joined the German section of the Trotskyist IV International , the International Communists of Germany (IKD). He became editor of the SPD newspaper Rheinische Zeitung, run by Willi Eichler and Heinz Kühn , and with the beginning of the entry of the IKD also a member of the SPD . At the end of 1953 he went to the German embassy in Paris as a social consultant . In addition to his official work, he was involved - unnoticed by his employers - as a porter for the Algerian Liberation Front (FLN) , for which he was given by the Algerian ambassador on December 18, 2004, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the start of the Algerian liberation war, in »Acknowledgment and admiration for the Support for the Algerian Cause «was awarded.

In 1962 he returned to Cologne, where he became editor-in-chief of the two influential IG Metall newspapers, Metall and Der Arbeiterunioner . Under Moneta's direction, the circulation of the metal rose in a short time from 1.5 to 2.2 million. There were popular scientific articles as well as reports from everyday working life. His best known colleague was Günter Wallraff , who wrote his first industrial reports there.

In 1976 Moneta played a key role in inviting Wolf Biermann to the “Cologne Concert”. Biermann's appearance on November 13, 1976 in the Cologne sports hall led to his expatriation from the GDR.

Moneta, who had been a member of the Trotskyist group International Marxists since 1969 and, after its unification with the KPD / ML, also of the United Socialist Party and who wrote under the pseudonym Anna Armand in their publications , joined the PDS in 1990 and then left after 40 years of membership the SPD excluded . Until 1995 he was a member of the party executive committee of the PDS. Moneta had worked as a columnist for the Trotskyist newspaper SoZ since 1987 , but also wrote for other papers such as B. the Tagesspiegel or the Jüdische Allgemeine . Since 2006 he has been the patron of the SALZ educational community .

Publications (selection)

Books

  • The colonial policy of the French Communist Party , Hanover 1968
  • The rise and fall of Stalinism. On the history of the CPSU , ISP Verlag, Frankfurt 1971 (together with Ernest Mandel ), ISBN 3-88332-027-7
  • Norbert Blüm. Herz-Jesu Marxist or capitalist propagandist? Frankfurt a. M 1985 ISBN 3-88332-088-9
  • More power for the powerless: speeches and essays , Frankfurt a. M. 1991 ISBN 3-88332-177-X (from which more violence for the powerless )
  • Solidarity in the Age of Skepticism: Comments from Three Decades , Cologne 2004

Articles (online)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement by Jörg Meyer, Neues Deutschland (accessed on March 5, 2012)
  2. ^ Lutz Fiedler: Matzpen. Another Israeli story . 2. Looked through. Edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-37056-8 , pp. 90-103, 333-349 .
  3. ↑ Jakob Moneta: Memories of the Algerian solidarity: Ein Kofferträger , SoZ - Sozialistische Zeitung , February 2005, page 20
personal data
SURNAME Moneta, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armand, Anna (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (PDS)
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Blasow
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2012
Place of death Frankfurt am Main