Karl Schneidt

Karl Borromäus Schneidt , also Carl Schneidt (born May 13, 1854 in Rußhütte , † November 2, 1945 in Eggersdorf ) was a German editor , publisher, agitator , author, teacher and anarchist .

Life

Karl Schneidt completed a university degree in philology in Heidelberg and Bonn, after which he worked temporarily as a teacher in Linz and Saarbrücken. He dealt in detail with socialist and social democratic aspirations of his time, from the mid-1870s he worked as a journalist for the newspaper Bergische Volksstimme in Barmen . There, Schneidt was in prison for twelve months for violating the then paragraphs 130 (sedition) and 171 (representation of violence).

In 1879 he published the Hamburger Volksblatt together with Wilhelm Hasselmann and others . A year later he emigrated to Brussels and took part in a social revolutionary congress. He then traveled to Paris, where he was expelled at the end of 1881 and then emigrated to London.

In London he made the acquaintance of Pyotr Alexejewitsch Kropotkin and Errico Malatesta . Together with Kropotkin and Malatesta, Schneidt was elected to the Executive Committee of the London Anarchists. There he joined the opposition around Johann Most and Wilhelm Hasselmann and was temporarily editor of the magazine Freiheit , an initially social democratic and later anarchist newspaper.

Hasselmann and Schneidt had problems with informers in London , so they returned to Germany in November 1883, with Schneidt being arrested in Potsdam. In Leipzig, Schneidt was charged with high treason and after five months in prison he was released due to lack of evidence. He later maintained contacts with illegal groups in Magdeburg and worked there as the editor of two newspapers. In 1889/1890 he worked as an agitator for the miners' union in the Rhineland and the Saar area. In 1891, Schneidt was a founding member of the "Association of Independent Socialists". After the Socialist Law was repealed , he traveled to Berlin, where he led an initiative against anti-Semitism , class justice , state repression and Prussian militarism on a journalistic and agitational basis . Together with two editors of the newspaper Vorwärts , Schneidt was charged in 1905 for revelations about the conditions in Prussian prisons in the so-called "Plötzensee Trial". Karl Liebknecht took over the defense .

Because of an article in the newspaper Zeit on Monday - under the title Modern Madhouse Torture - a criminal complaint was made against Schneidt . The reason was based on insulting the doctors of the madhouse mentioned in the article . In the article in question it was mentioned that the senior physician was the director's son-in-law and the first assistant was the director's son. The article read about "Trinity of Doctors" and "brutal rape".

In the 1920s, Karl Schneidt was temporarily active on the central board of the relief organization for political prisoners, the Red Aid (RHD).

Karl Schneidt published under the pseudonyms Karl von Klarenthal, Hans Strei, Mephisto, Charles and Carolus Robert. Other names of his are Carl Schneidt, Carl B. Schneidt and Karl Borromäus Schneidt.

As editor and editor

In 1882 Karl Schneidt was editor of the magazine Freiheit , from issues 23 to 39. In 1885 he published the Neue Magdeburger Tageblatt (court newspaper) . From 1891 to 1893 editor of the satirical weekly Spottvogel in Berlin . In 1892 he published a bi-monthly publication on combating anti-Semitism under the title The Shame of the Century . In Magdeburg in 1895 he founded the monthly Die deutscher Volksblätter . From 1894 to 1902 he published the monthly for public life with the title The Critique . Subtitle: "Tabloid with libertarian tendencies". The time on Monday appeared in 1894. From 1905 to 1921 he was editor of the weekly Die Tribüne , for instruction, education and entertainment.

Fonts

Eight publications are archived in the IISG , search.socialhistory.org .

The backers of social democracy . (PDF; 994 kB) 1890.
The Ahlwardt Trial and Others . Moderner Verlag, Berlin 1892.
The iron mask. The revealed secret of social democracy . 1892.
New information about the hunger revolt in Berlin . 1892.
The misery of waitresses in Berlin . 1893
The Magdeburg libel trials. Critical Discussions . Mocking Bird Publishing House, Berlin 1899
Wilhelm II. By God's grace . 1911.
The social democracy in field gray. Serious considerations at a serious time . Berlin, circa 1915.

literature

Bernd Braun, Joachim Eichler (ed.): “Workers' leaders, parliamentarians, party veterans.” The diaries of the social democrat Hermann Molkenbuhr 1905 to 1927. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-486-56424-2 , p. 335.
Franz Mehring : History of the German Social Democracy. Volume 4: Until the Erfurt program. Verlag Elibron Classics, 2006, ISBN 0-543-92304-5 , p. 182.
Max Nettlau (Ed.): Anarchists and Social Revolutionaries. (History of Anarchy, Volume 3). 1st edition. Library Thélème, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-930819-06-6 , pp. 154 and 314. (Reprint of the edition Verlag Der Syndikalist , Berlin 1927)
Max Nettlau (Ed.): Anarchists and Syndicalists. (History of Anarchy, Volume 5). Topos-Verlag, Vaduz 1984, ISBN 3-289-00293-4 , p. 237.
Nick Brauns: Get Red Help! History and activities of the proletarian aid organization for political prisoners in Germany (1919–1938). Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-89144-297-1 .
August Bebel : Women and Socialism . 62nd edition. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1973, Chapter 12, pp. 230/231.

Web links

Works by Karl Schneidt on Google Books.
Magazines and newspapers for which Karl Schneidt worked in the database of German-speaking anarchism (DadA):
- Freedom (London) / Deutsche Volksblätter (1885) / Der Spottvogel / Die Critique / Zeit am Montag / Die Tribüne .

Individual evidence

↑ Schneidt, Karl . Short biography. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
^ Bernd Braun, Joachim Eichler: Workers' leader, parliamentarian, party veteran . P. 335. Quote: “Karl Schneidt (* 1854), teacher and editor, since 1879 in Hamburg, anarchist, correspondent of the anarchist 'Freiheit' published by Johann Most, emigrated to Belgium in 1880, later France, after expulsion from both countries in 1881 Relocation to London, employee, since 1882 chief editor of 'Freiheit'. "
^ Franz Mehring : History of the German Social Democracy . P. 182. Quote: “When a certain Neumann, an alleged 'Social Revolutionary' from Berlin, called on Hasselmann's trip to London, Hasselmann gave the wrong brother a bloodthirsty article for the [magazine] Freiheit. When it was then reported that Neumann was probably an informant, as he really was, Hasselmann and his accomplice Karl Schneidt, a former private tutor, thought that a quick escape was all the more advisable as it had nothing more to lose with the German workers. Their runaway was promoted and supported by another informant, the blue dye Wichmann, on behalf of Police Commissioner Engel in Altona, who was so afraid of Hasselmann that he misused the 'man of action' to spy on the foreign anarchist parties. "
↑ Interesting criminal trials . Quote: “That is why Schneidt had to answer before the seventh criminal chamber of the Berlin I district court from November 8th to 11th, 1908. (…) The defendant Schneidt remarked after reading out the article on the indictment: He took full responsibility for the article. He had no intention of offending anyone. He just wanted to reprimand a public grievance. Incidentally, he acted in the protection of legitimate interests, because what happened to Lubecki could happen to anyone, including him. ”Accessed December 1, 2013.
↑ The history of the Red Aid Germany . Among others about Karl Schneidt, Erich Mühsam, Rudolf Rocker. Quote: “At the Third Reich Congress of the RHD in October 1929, the delegates even elected the writer and publicist Karl Schneidt, an anarchist, to the central board of the RHD. Schneidt worked a. a. (at the time of the socialist laws in Germany) in London in the editorial office of Johann Most's 'Freiheit', at times even as head of the anarchist newspaper. ”Accessed December 1, 2013.
↑ See on this: August Bebel: Die Frau und der Sozialismus , pp. 230/231. Quote: "The messages that Karl Schneidt published in a brochure [Das Kellnerinnen-Elend in Berlin] [and] that the police superintendent suspected of being an anarchist are very instructive."

personal data
SURNAME	Schneidt, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schneider, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 13, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Russhütte (Saarbrücken)
DATE OF DEATH	November 2, 1945
Place of death	Eggersdorf

[1] Schneidt, Karl . Short biography. Retrieved December 1, 2013.

[2] Bernd Braun, Joachim Eichler: Workers' leader, parliamentarian, party veteran . P. 335. Quote: “Karl Schneidt (* 1854), teacher and editor, since 1879 in Hamburg, anarchist, correspondent of the anarchist 'Freiheit' published by Johann Most, emigrated to Belgium in 1880, later France, after expulsion from both countries in 1881 Relocation to London, employee, since 1882 chief editor of 'Freiheit'. "

[3] Franz Mehring : History of the German Social Democracy . P. 182. Quote: “When a certain Neumann, an alleged 'Social Revolutionary' from Berlin, called on Hasselmann's trip to London, Hasselmann gave the wrong brother a bloodthirsty article for the [magazine] Freiheit. When it was then reported that Neumann was probably an informant, as he really was, Hasselmann and his accomplice Karl Schneidt, a former private tutor, thought that a quick escape was all the more advisable as it had nothing more to lose with the German workers. Their runaway was promoted and supported by another informant, the blue dye Wichmann, on behalf of Police Commissioner Engel in Altona, who was so afraid of Hasselmann that he misused the 'man of action' to spy on the foreign anarchist parties. "

[4] Interesting criminal trials . Quote: “That is why Schneidt had to answer before the seventh criminal chamber of the Berlin I district court from November 8th to 11th, 1908. (…) The defendant Schneidt remarked after reading out the article on the indictment: He took full responsibility for the article. He had no intention of offending anyone. He just wanted to reprimand a public grievance. Incidentally, he acted in the protection of legitimate interests, because what happened to Lubecki could happen to anyone, including him. ”Accessed December 1, 2013.

[5] The history of the Red Aid Germany . Among others about Karl Schneidt, Erich Mühsam, Rudolf Rocker. Quote: “At the Third Reich Congress of the RHD in October 1929, the delegates even elected the writer and publicist Karl Schneidt, an anarchist, to the central board of the RHD. Schneidt worked a. a. (at the time of the socialist laws in Germany) in London in the editorial office of Johann Most's 'Freiheit', at times even as head of the anarchist newspaper. ”Accessed December 1, 2013.

[6] See on this: August Bebel: Die Frau und der Sozialismus , pp. 230/231. Quote: "The messages that Karl Schneidt published in a brochure [Das Kellnerinnen-Elend in Berlin] [and] that the police superintendent suspected of being an anarchist are very instructive."