Marguerite Kuczynski

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Anne Marguerite Madeleine Kuczynski (born Steinfeld ; * December 5, 1904 in Bischheim ; † January 15, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German economist and translator .

Life

Marguerite Steinfeld was the daughter of Konrad Steinfeld and Caroline Schaub. She passed exams as a teacher for French elementary and middle schools. In 1921 she received a government scholarship for economics a. a. at the Brooking Institution in Washington. Here she met Jürgen Kuczynski , whom she married on September 18, 1928. She moved with him to Berlin in 1929 and emigrated with him to Great Britain in 1936 . Here she continued her economic work and participated in the anti-fascist organizations of immigrants.

Marguerite Kuczynski founded a library of the Free German Cultural Association in England , which she directed until her return to Berlin. She was particularly involved in the women's movement and was, for example, secretary of the War Aid Committee of German Refugee Women until 1942 and then on the board of the Women's Co-operative Guild . She lectured on the resistance of women in Nazi Germany and published an essay in the brochure "Women under the Swastika" . She organized aid campaigns for refugees and helped obtain visas for politically and racially persecuted people.

In March 1947 she returned to Berlin and worked for the city administration and the Ministry of Finance, and later in the GDR Foreign Trade Ministry. From 1957 to about 1984 she worked at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED . As a Marx-Engels researcher, she published the new edition of Marx's Das Elend der Philosophie in Volume 4 of the MEW , "for which she rediscovered and used a French edition provided by Marx with extensive marginal notes after archival research in Japan ." also responsible for volume 8 of the MEW, which contains the writings from August 1851 to March 1853. She was buried in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery .

Burial place with her husband

Kuczynski had three children: Thomas , Peter (Americanist at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) and Madeleine.

In 1974 she received the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and 1985 in gold.

Fonts (selection)

  • Wages and labor's share . (with Jürgen Kuczynski). American Federation of Labor. Washington, DC 1927.
  • Wages in manufacturing industries, 1899 to 1927 . (with Jürgen Kuczynski). American Federation of Labor, Washington 1928.
  • The factory worker in the American economy (with Jürgen Kuczynski). CL Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1930.
  • The situation of the German industrial worker (with Jürgen Kuczynski). Internationaler Arbeiter-Verlag, Berlin 1931.
  • François Quesnay : Tableau économique . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965.
  • In search of the “3. Edition ”of the“ Tableau économique ”by François Quesnay. In: The Economic review . 17.1966, 3, pp. 223-230.
  • François Quesnay: Economic writings . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1971–1976.
    • Tape. 1. 1. Half band. 1756-1759.
    • Tape. 1. 2. Half-band. 1756-1759.
    • Tape. 2. 1st half-band. Writings from the years 1763 - 1767.
    • Tape. 2. 2nd half-band. Writings from the years 1763 - 1767.
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Marguerite Kuczynski: The physiocratic model and the transition from feudalism to capitalism . 1972.
  • Turgot on the colonial question . In: Yearbook for Economic History . 18th year, 1977, issue 4
  • Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth. According to the edition approved by Turgot. Reflexiones sur la formation et la distribution des richesses, (par.MY, Paris 1770). Published on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Turgot's death on March 18, 1981 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981.
  • A youth work by Turgot . In: Yearbook for Economic History . 29th year, 1988, issue 1

literature

  • Ute Lampalzer-Smith: Marguerite Kuczynski , Institute for Economic Systems, Economic and Theory History of the University of Hamburg.
  • Ute Lampalzer-Smith: Marguerite Kuczynski (1904-1998) - economic work in different countries and times; her path from the "golden twenties" in the USA to "real socialism" in the GDR , Berlin, Central and State Library, 2013, ISBN 978-3-925516-40-5 .
  • Manfred Neuhaus , Richard Sperl: Marguerite Kuczynski 1904–1998 in: Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century, 13th year; Issue 2/98 page 247 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Neuhaus, Richard Sperl: Marguerite Kuczynski 1904–1998 . In: Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Centuries , 13th year, issue 2/1998, page 248.
  2. ↑ See, in contrast, the review by Inge Werchan: Karl Marx. Misère de la philosophie […]. Tokyo 1982. In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research 13 . Berlin 1982, pp. 113-115. There is also only one document for a trip to Moscow in 1949 and to China in 1957, but not to Japan. The edition in the 4th volume of the MEW only uses the corrections by Marx from the Moscow copy to Natalja Utina.
  3. ^ Alfred Etzold, Wolfgang Türk: The Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof: the burial places on Berlin's Chausseestrasse . Links, Berlin 2002, p. 44.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , March 1, 1985, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Kuczynski, Marguerite
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinfeld, Anne Marguerite (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, translator and editor of Marx-Engels writings
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischheim
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1998
Place of death Berlin