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Johannes Münze (born March 26, 1823 in Cologne , † May 22, 1868 in Magdeburg ) was a pioneer of the German labor movement.

Life

Münze lived in Magdeburg from around 1848. In June 1855, Münze was included in the list of protective relatives and thus had a business and residential permit in Magdeburg. Together with Julius Bremer , the trained tailor Münze founded a workers' education association in Magdeburg in 1863. This represented the beginning of the union work in Magdeburg. While Münze and Bremer wanted to spread the idea of ​​communism with the help of the association, the association chairmen Max Hirsch and Leberecht Uhlich enforced a content-related restriction of the association's work to further vocational training and general education. Largely deprived of the ability to influence the association, Münze founded the Magdeburg Group of the General German Workers' Association on October 15, 1864 , of which he became chairman. The group was banned as early as May 1865. Münze was sentenced to a heavy fine.

In 1866, Münze and Bremer founded the Magdeburg section of the International Workers' Association . Here, too, he took over the chairmanship of the group that worked illegally . Münze was close to the League of Communists .

Münze was particularly active against war as a means of politics and for peace.

After a serious illness, he died in 1868.

The city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor ( Johannes-Münze-Straße ).

literature

• Martin Wiehle : Magdeburg personalities. Published by the Magistrate of the City of Magdeburg, Department of Culture. imPuls Verlag, Magdeburg 1993, ISBN 3-910146-06-6 .