Max Beer (publicist)
Max Beer (born on August 10, 1864 as Moses Beer in Tarnobrzeg , Galicia , Austrian Empire ; died on April 30, 1943 in London ) was an Austrian - German publicist and historian. He published for a time under the pseudonym "Spectator".
He was best known for contributions in several socialist magazines, including the SPD party organ Vorwärts between the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Under the title General History of Socialism and Social Struggles , between 1919 and 1923 he wrote a five-volume historical basic work on the international historical development of socialism .
Life
Moses (Max) Beer grew up in a traditionally Jewish family. His father was a non-commissioned officer in the Austrian army. After graduating from school at the age of 15 and doing a few jobs, the young man moved to Germany in 1889 and worked, among other things, as the editor of the social democratic “ Volksstimme ” in Magdeburg .
After being imprisoned for an alleged violation of the press law, Max Beer emigrated to London in 1894, where he was one of the first to study at the London School of Economics from 1895 to 1896 . From 1898 to 1902 he lived in New York, where he worked as a correspondent for the SPD newspapers Die Neue Zeit and the party organ Vorwärts , for the Munich Post and the Arbeiter-Zeitung . From 1902 to 1912 he was Eduard Bernstein's successor as the correspondent for Vorwärts in London and provided reports on the development of the labor movement and the political situation in Great Britain. During the First World War , he was expelled to Germany in 1915 as an "enemy alien".
Between 1919 and 1921 Max Beer published the socialist bi-monthly publication Die Glocke . From 1927 to 1929 he worked at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow and from 1929 to 1933 at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main . Shortly after Hitler came to power and the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship , his works were put on the list of books to be burned in Germany . The following year (1934) he emigrated to London and was expatriated by the German authorities .
Max Beer died of tuberculosis in London in 1943 at the age of 78 .
On May 31, 1951, the SED had Dragonerstrasse in East Berlin's Mitte district renamed Max-Beer-Strasse .
Fonts (selection)
- History of Socialism in England. Dietz, Stuttgart 1913.
- Jean Jaurès: His life and work. In memory of the day of his death (July 31, 1914). International correspondence, Berlin-Karlshorst 1915.
- Karl Marx: A monograph. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, Berlin 1918; 4th, revised edition 1922; Reprint of the first edition: Neuer ISP-Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-929008-05-X .
- General history of socialism and social struggles. 5 volumes. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft, Berlin 1919–1923; 7th edition, with additions by Hermann Duncker : Neuer Deutscher Verlag, Berlin 1931 ( online ).
- British Contemporary Socialism, 1910–1920. Dietz, Stuttgart 1920.
literature
- Beer, Max , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 24
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Beer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Max Beer in the German Digital Library
- Max Beer in the Marxists Internet Archive (English)
- Entry on Max Beer on verbrannte-und-verbanned.de, listing all of his writings
Individual evidence
- ^ Max-Beer-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beer, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tarnobrzeg , Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1943 |
| Place of death | London |