Ludwig Schorlemmer

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Ludwig Schorlemmer (born March 26, 1847 in Darmstadt ; † December 6, 1926 there ) was a German social democrat .

Life

Christoph Ludwig Heinrich Schorlemmer was one of ten children of the carpenter Johannes Schorlemmer and his wife Katharine Philippine Schorlemmer. His oldest brother was the well-known chemist Carl Schorlemmer . He practiced the trades of a lathe operator and businessman.

Schorlemmer, who was a reader of the illegal magazine Der Sozialdemokrat , and who was also in correspondence with Friedrich Engels , was the victim of house searches. He was one of the people who helped to end the socialist law that curtailed the freedom of working people. He was a reader of the Neue Zeit , owned Friedrich Engels' book The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State in the Zurich edition of 1884, which was preserved in his estate, and was informed by Engels about the progress of the third volume by Marx 'Capital informed.

His correspondence with Friedrich Engels between 1890 and 1895, which each comprised 18 letters from and to Engels and is one of the most extensive from Engels from this time, revolved around securing the estate of Carl Schorlemmer, information about Marx capital and the exchange of personal messages. A publication of the entire correspondence in the Marx-Engels Complete Edition is still pending.

Schorlemmer was married to Katharine Christiane Bing (1848-1885) from October 6, 1872 and had six children.

Letters

literature

  • Manfred Schöncke: Carl and Ludwig Schorlemmer, their relationship to Marx and Engels in books. To the partial estate of Ludwig Schorlemmer that was found. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New series 2009. Hamburg 2009, pp. 225–250.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IISG Amsterdam Marx Engels estate L5610 - L 5627 and K1479-K1495
  2. ^ Hans Meyer-Schwarzenberger: Schorlemmer from Rosenthal near Peine. In: Hessian gender book. Vol. 16. Limburg an der Lahn 1964, pp. 93-112
personal data
SURNAME Schorlemmer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democrat
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1926
Place of death Darmstadt