Julius Brill

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Julius Brill (born August 28, 1816 in Breslau , † October 19, 1882 in Brooklyn ) was an early representative of the German labor movement and a member of the Prussian National Assembly . After the revolution of 1848/49 he emigrated to the United States as a Forty-Eighter , where he worked as a daguerreotypist and photographer.

Life

Brill was a journeyman printer or typesetter by profession. He was strongly influenced by the French utopians . At the beginning of the March Revolution he was a leader in the Wroclaw workers' association and in the democratic association. On March 26, 1848, he was one of the speakers at the great people's assembly in Berlin. He criticized the noble and rich. " They did nothing for the worker, for the worker who managed everything for them, from their subsistence to their luxury. [...] But the worker is the basis of society, and because it has now changed, the whole must Society [...] to be reshaped. "

He was elected to the Prussian National Assembly as one of the few Jews and one of the few workers. He belonged to the left . He took part in both the first workers ' congress in Berlin and the second democrats' congress. At a workers' meeting in Berlin he made some political demands that were to be conveyed to the king. These included the demand for wage increases through amicable agreements with employers, reduction of working hours in favor of publicly paid popular education, an economical government, universal suffrage and the formation of a labor ministry.

In the course of the counter-revolution in Prussia, he first went to Baden and in 1849 he emigrated to New York City . There he settled down as a daguerreotypist or photographer. Various photographs of well-known American personalities such as Carl Schurz and Fitz Hugh Ludlow have survived from him. In New York he was involved in the German society there.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Hachtmann : From the stand to the class. Self-image and language behavior of workers and journeymen, entrepreneurs and masters in the Berlin Revolution. In: Christian Jansen / Thomas Mergel (ed.): The revolutions of 1848/49 . Göttingen, 1998 p. 83
  2. ^ Contemporary advertisement from Brill's Studio
  3. ^ Annual report of the German Society of the City of New York on January 16, 1860. P. 24

literature

  • Jacob Toury : The political orientations of the Jews in Germany. Tübingen, 1966 BC a. P. 80

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personal data
SURNAME Brill, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the Prussian National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1882
Place of death Brooklyn