Paul Kampffmeyer

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Paul Kampffmeyer (born November 29, 1864 in Berlin ; † February 1, 1945 in Berlin-Wilhelmshagen ) was a German publicist. He sympathized with anarchism , later turned to the garden city movement and became involved in the SPD .

family

His parents were the bookseller (Johann Georg Eusebius) Theodor (* August 14, 1821; † July 6, 1888) and (Marie Emilie) Bertha Kampffmeyer , née Schmidt (* December 21, 1828; † January 5, 1879).

(Albert Theodor) Paul Kampffmeyer was the brother of (Wilhelm Theodor) Bernhard (born June 25, 1867 - April 21, 1942), (Martin Heinrich) Theodor (* May 7, 1856 - September 12, 1913) and (Theodor Heinrich) Otto Kampffmeyer (* July 21, 1858 - April 16, 1926) and by (Auguste Bertha) Minna (* November 24, 1849 - November 12, 1910), the mother of Erich Wallroth , and Anna (* 28. November 1851; † 1852).

His son with his first wife (Wilhelmine Luise) Anna Kampffmeyer, geb. Fedler (married February 3, 1887), was also called (Georg Otto) Bernhard (* May 27, 1887), which often led to confusion in the literature about the Kampffmeyer family. After divorcing his first wife, he married Amanda Bornholdt, born on October 2, 1897. Schlüter (* August 3, 1871; † July 21, 1901; daughter Mathilde), and after her death on December 21, 1907 Margarete Streichhan (* June 9, 1874; daughter Berta).

Paul Kampffmeyer comes from an upper-class family with liberal attitudes. He profited greatly from his father Theodor through the educational opportunities and the not inconsiderable financial resources that enabled him to study economics in Switzerland and, in the 1990s, by inheriting an economically independent field of activity as a publicist and politician.

Paul had a very close relationship with his brother Bernhard Kampffmeyer , with whom he shared the same political views in his youth and lived together for a time in Friedrichshagen and in the community of Neue Gemeinschaft . The years between the father's death and around 1914 in particular are characterized by joint activities with his younger brother.

After the seizure of power by the Nazi regime he introduced (30 January 1933) its publication activities largely one and retired from politics.

Social policy and cultural commitment

In 1890 he joined the opposition group “The Young” in the SPD. In 1891 he became a member of the Association of Independent Socialists. But when he went increasingly anarchist way, Kampffmeyer turned away from him and switched to the SPD , where he was involved in social policy. His priorities were reforms of social legislation, the cooperative movement and the issue of workers' education.

Paul Kampffmeyer was an active member of the Friedrichshagener poet circle together with his brother Bernhard . The house of Paul and Bernhard Kampffmeyer at Ahornallee 19 in Friedrichshagen (at that time at the gates of Berlin) became the meeting point of the district after 1890. The members of the Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis included Gerhart Hauptmann , Frank Wedekind , Erich Mühsam , Fidus , the brothers Heinrich and Julius Hart as well as Wilhelm Bölsche and others.

Together with his brother Bernhard, he was also a founding member of the New Community Commune .

From 1921 to 1933 he headed the SPD party archive. He completely reorganized the archive, procured funds to complete the holdings, integrated other archive holdings and regularly published catalogs that made it possible to use the extensive source base. In 1925 he was a member of the program commission for the Heidelberg program of the SPD, in which numerous approaches from his publication “The Spirit of the New Social Democratic Program” from 1922 can be found. His publications “Social Democracy in German History up to the Founding of the Reich” (1926) and “Under the Socialist Law” (1928) are important sources on the history of the SPD.

Garden city movement

Paul Kampffmeyer was a founding member of the DGG German Garden City Society (1902) and promoted the garden city movement. In a number of programmatic articles, he focused more on the social than the architectural aspects of the garden city movement and the role of building cooperatives . In relation to his activities at DGG, he was often confused in literature with Bernhard Kampffmeyer and his cousin Hans Kampffmeyer . He was involved in several concepts for garden cities, e.g. B. in Berlin am Falkenberg in today's Treptow district for the first Berlin garden city (1912), marginally involved.

Journalistic activity

As a publicist, he first published the “Volksstimme Magdeburg” from 1890 onwards. He worked as an author for the " Freie Volksbühne " or the "Neue Freie Volksbühne" (1892). From 1899 to 1900 he was the editor of the "Deutsche Krankenkassenzeitung" and from 1907 to 1921 of the " Münchener Post ". He made numerous contributions to the “ Sozialistische Monatshefte ”, which almost resulted in him being expelled from the SPD, as this magazine was hardly under the control of the party after August Bebel . The focus of his work as an editor, publisher and writer was on socio-political issues. He later worked as a literary advisor, author and archivist at the JHW Dietz publishing house in Weimar. During this time he wrote biographies on Friedrich Ebert , Wilhelm Liebknecht , Ferdinand Lassalle and Georg von Vollmar . From 1936 to 1937 he wrote the family history of the Kampffmeyer family, published in 1939, German families in the course of the centuries .

His more important contributions include:

Anarchist publication phase
  • "On the history of the development of capitalism in Germany" (1890)
  • "Is socialism compatible with human nature?" (1891)
Garden city movement publication phase
  • "The building cooperatives as part of a national housing reform plan" (1900)
  • "From the medieval small town to the modern big city" (1904)
SPD publication phase
  • " Prostitution as a social class phenomenon and its socio-political fight" (1905)
  • " Social Democracy in the Light of Cultural History" (3rd edition 1907)
  • "Changes in the Theory and Tactics of the (German) Social-democracy" (1908)
  • "History of the social classes in Germany" (1910)
  • "Labor Movement and Social Democracy", Ullstein & Co publishing house, Berlin (1919) * "Social Democracy in the Light of Cultural Development" (1920)
  • "History of the modern social classes in Germany" (1921)
  • "The Spirit of the New Social Democratic Program" (1922)
  • " Fritz Ebert " (1923)
  • "Fascism in Germany" (1923)
  • " National Socialism and its Patrons" (1924)
  • "From guild journeyman to free worker" (1924)
  • "The First German Revolution" (1925)
  • " Lassalle , awakening the working-class culture movement" (1925)
  • "Social Democracy in German History up to the Founding of the Reich" (1926)
  • " Wilhelm Liebknecht , the soldier of the revolution" (1926)
  • “Before the socialist law . Years of crisis in the governmental state. ”With Bruno Altmann . The book circle (1928)
  • "Under the Socialist Law" (1928)
  • " Georg von Vollmar " (1930).

literature

  • Gertrude Cepl-Kauffmann, Rolf Kauffeldt: Berlin-Friedrichshagen: literary capital at the turn of the century. The Friedrichshagener poet circle . Klaus Boer Verlag, 1994.
  • Alfred Eberlein: The press of the working class and the social movements . Topos Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1968/70, 4 vol. And 1 register vol.
  • Peter Gohle: Paul Kampffmeyer (1864-1945) . In: Preserve, Spread, Educate. Edited by Günter Benser and Michael Schneider. Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2009 ISBN 978-3-86872-105-8 , pp. 151–155 online (pdf; 315 kB)
  • Paul Kampffmeyer: Blood Relatives German Families through the Centuries . Dallmeyer, Greifswald, 1939 (history of the Kampffmeyer family )
  • Karl August Kutzbach:  Kampffmeyer, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 91 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Paul Kampffmeyer . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism. Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hanover 1960, pp. 151–152.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Kampffmeyer, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kampffmeyer, Albert Theodor Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1945
Place of death Berlin- Wilhelmshagen