Joseph Bloch (publicist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joseph Bloch (born September 14, 1871 in Wilkowiszky (then Russian Poland ); died December 14, 1936 in Prague ) was a social democratic publicist . For many years he was the editor of the Socialist Monthly Bulletin . He was one of the most influential representatives of the right wing of the SPD.

Life

Joseph Bloch came from an Orthodox Jewish family and grew up in Königsberg ( East Prussia ). He attended the Kneiphöfische Gymnasium in his hometown until 1890 and then studied mathematics and physics in Königsberg for four semesters and ten semesters in Berlin . Bloch was at Paul Hensel in 1907 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for Dr. phil. PhD.

Bloch was a staunch atheist , at the same time he was a supporter of Zionism . Politically, he saw himself as a socialist . On September 3, 1890, he turned to Friedrich Engels , to whom this in his well-known letter of 21/22. September 1890 replied.

From 1896 he was the editor of the magazine “Der Sozialistische Akademiker.” From this, in 1897, the socialist monthly books emerged. This paper was not subordinate to the party executive and was the central mouthpiece of the revisionists. He was editor of the paper until 1933. He was also committed to the Free Volksbühne in Berlin.

In the internal party dispute, Bloch can be assigned to the revisionists or rather the right wing. Domestically, he called for a social democratic agricultural policy. Before the First World War he was hostile to England and advocated an active colonial policy . Instead, he called for rapprochement with France. After the beginning of the war he supported the truce policy .

After the National Socialists came to power , he emigrated to Prague in 1933. He died there in 1936 and was buried there in the Jewish cemetery .

Joseph Bloch was married to the dentist Helene Freudenheim, who together with Felix Stössinger wrote his work Revolution der Weltpolitik. Legacy issued posthumously .

literature

  • Anna Siemsen : A life for Europe. In memoriam Joseph Bloch . European Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1956.
  • Joseph Bloch . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, pp. 25–26 and picture on plate 4.
  • Charles Bloch : The struggle of Joseph Bloch and the "socialist monthly books" in the Weimar Republic . In: Yearbook of the Institute for German History , Tel Aviv 1974, pp. 257–287.
  • Dieter Fricke : The German labor movement 1869-1914. A manual about their organization and activity in the class struggle. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 232, 254, 462, 464-466, 829, 830, 861.
  • Charles Bloch: Joseph Bloch - the Jewish pioneer for continental Europe . In: Yearbook of the Institute for German History . Supplement 2: Jews and Jewish Aspects in the German Labor Movement 1848–1918 . Tel Aviv 1977, pp. 147-162.
  • Roger Fletcher: A revisionist dialogue on Wilhelmine Weltpolitik. Joseph Bloch and Kurt Eisner 1907–1914 . In: IWK. International academic correspondence on the history of the German labor movement , vol. 16, 1980, issue 4, 1980, pp. 453–477.
  • Roger Fletcher: Revisionism and Empire. Joseph Bloch, the Sozialistische Monatshefte and German Nationalism, 1907-14 . In: European History Quarterly , October 1980, Vol.10 (4), pp. 459-485. ISSN  0265-6914
  • Ursula Ratz: Our political influence grows with our economic power. From a correspondence between Adolph von Elm and Joseph Bloch . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Volume 68, Hamburg 1982, pp. 113–156.
  • Stefan Berger: short biography. In: Biographical dictionary of European labor leaders. Volume AL. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995, p. 102. ( partially digitized )
  • Bloch, Joseph. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 153-157.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The development of the concept of infinity from Kant to Hermann Cohen . Printed by C. Rosen, Berlin 1907 (Inaug.-Diss. Erlangen).
  2. ↑ Werner Mosse (ed.): Jews in Wilhelminian Germany, 1890-1914. An anthology. Tübingen, 1998, p. 295.
  3. ^ Ludger Heid , Arnold Paucker : Jews and German workers' movement until 1933. Social utopias and religious-cultural traditions. Tübingen, 1992 p. 85
  4. ↑ Catilina: “A letter from Friedrich Engels. On the critique of the materialistic conception of history ”. In: The Social Academic . 1 Jg. Berlin 1890, No. 119, October 1, 1895, pp. 351–353. Digitized
  5. ↑ Engels to Joseph Bloch 21./22. September 1895. In: Marx-Engels-Werke Volume 37, pp. 462-465.
  6. ↑ Werner Mosse (ed.): Jews in Wilhelminian Germany, 1890-1914. An anthology. Tübingen, 1998, p. 212f. ( Google books ), accessed April 21, 2009.
  7. ^ Franz Osterroth, p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Catilina (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilkowiszky (then Russian Poland )
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1936
Place of death Prague