Rudolf Meyer (publicist)
Rudolf Hermann Meyer (born December 10, 1839 in Friedeberg , Neumark , † January 16, 1899 in Dessau ) was a German socially conservative publicist .
Life
Meyer attended school in Kolberg and Stettin and studied from 1860 to 1864 in Berlin, first natural sciences , later history , philosophy and economics . In 1864/65 Meyer was a private tutor in Hungary, then a journalist in Berlin. He had been a close collaborator of Hermann Wagener since 1867 and published in his Berliner Revue . In 1872 both made the unsuccessful attempt to found a monarchical-national party with a strongly socially conservative accent. In 1874 he received his doctorate from the University of Jena with a thesis on "Socialism in Denmark". Since 1875 Meyer distanced himself from Otto von Bismarck out of disappointment with his liberal economic policy. He was active in the Conservative Party , but was expelled in 1876 because of "socialist tendencies". Meyer was the chief editor of the Berliner Revue (1870–1873). His book "Political founder and Corruption in Germany" (1877) was immediately banned and Meyer to one and a half years prison sentenced. Meyer fled to Austria , however, and worked there from 1877 to 1881 as the business editor of the newspaper "Vaterland". From 1881 to 1889 Meyer emigrated, first to the USA , then to Canada , where he successfully built up a farm. In 1889 he returned to Austria, worked as an agricultural advisor for large agrarians in Bohemia and Moravia and wrote again for the "Fatherland". Later (1892 to 1895) he wrote for the Marxist newspaper " Neue Zeit ". He had previously maintained personal and correspondence contacts with Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Laura Lafargue and Karl Kautsky . In 1897 he was able to return to Germany.
Political ideas
Meyer represented a strictly religiously based social conservatism and Christian anti-capitalism. In addition to Wagener, Lorenz von Stein and Johann Karl Rodbertus exerted great influence on him. In his main work "The Emancipation Struggle of the Fourth Estate" he postulated the struggle against unrestrained economic liberalism as the main goal . Against the accumulation of capital, Meyer recommended comprehensive social legislation, land reform, a strict ban on usury and the establishment of state-owned enterprises. He also advocated a strengthening of the trade unions by granting the right to strike, as well as a statutory working time limit. He set his hopes not only in a coalition of interests of landowners, small businesses and workers, but also in the monarchy as a social kingdom in the sense of Lorenz von Stein. The hoped-for social reform should, as it were, be carried out from above by the ruling authorities of the state, the church and the possessing class, peacefully with the help of the fourth estate. The rights of the fourth estate were given priority to him, but at the same time the cultural achievements were to be preserved. In this sense Meyer was both social and conservative.
Fonts (selection)
- The stock corporations. Handbook for bankers, actionaire and business people . 4 vols. Schindler, Berlin 1872–1873
- The threatening development of socialism and the teaching of Lassalle. Berlin 1873
- The rural worker question in Germany. Socialism - emigration - means against both . Schindler, Berlin 1873
- Socialism in Denmark . Ringer & Sohn, Berlin 1875 (Phil. Diss. Jerna 1874)
- The struggle for emancipation of the fourth estate . 2 vol., Schindler, Berlin 1874–1875
- Political founders and corruption in Germany . Bidder, Berlin 1877
- Letters and social-political articles by Johann Karl Rodbertus-Jagetzow . Ed. by Rudolph Meyer. 2 vols., Klein, Berlin 1880
- Theory of socialism. Catholic socialism. The international. Germany. Schulze. Lassalle. Marx. The trade unions. The social conservatives. The workers press. Position of the governments on the social parties . Schindler, Berlin 1882
- Homestead and other economic laws of the United States of America, Canada, Russia, China, India, Romania, Serbia and England. With previously unprinted letters from Jefferson and a draft of a new agricultural law. Ed. With introductory a. explanatory treatises by Rudolf Meyer . Bahr, Berlin / Görlitz 1883
- Causes of American Competition. Results of a study tour of Counts Géza Andrassy through the United States. Edited by R. Meyer . Bahr, Berlin 1893
- Capitalism fin de siècle . Verlag-Buchhandlung Austria, Vienna 1894
- The sinking of the basic rent and its possible social and political questions . Vienna / Leipzig 1894
- A hundred years of conservative politics and literature . Vienna and Leipzig 1895
- Colonization of the unemployed. A new farming system . Vienna / Leipzig 1896
Article from Die Neue Zeit (selection)
- Cultivation Policy and Food . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 10.1891-92, 1st vol. (1892), issue 11, pp. 325-333
- Cultivation policy and food (conclusion) In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 10.1891-92, Volume 1 (1892), Issue 12, pp. 365-372
- The socio-political meanings of the grain elevators . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 10.1891-92, 2nd vol. (1892), issue 28, pp. 46-54
- On the situation of the nationalization of the grain trade . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 10.1891-92, 2nd vol. (1892), issue 30, pp. 116-120
- The Great General Staff and the nagging newspaper writers . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 10.1891-92, 2nd vol. (1892), issue 35, pp. 260-268
- A little more about the large agricultural business . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 11.1892-93, 2nd vol. (1893), issue 53, pp. 821-827
- Cancellation of proof of identity (signed "-r"). In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 12.1893-94, 1st vol. (1894), issue 18, pp. 560-562
- The agrarian hardship and happiness . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 12.1893-94, Volume 1 (1894), Issue 20, pp. 613-620
- Revocation of proof of identity . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 12.1893-94, 1st Vol. (1894), Issue 24, pp. 741-749
- About latifundia farming in North America . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 12.1893-94, 2nd vol. (1894), issue 48, pp. 682-688
- Two letters from Dr. Rodbertus . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 13.1894-95, Volume 1 (1895), Issue 8, pp. 244-250
literature
- NL: Dr. Rudolf Meyer and the large agricultural enterprise . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life . 11.1892-93, 2nd vol. (1893), issue 46, pp. 593-599
- Kurt Feibelmann: Rudolf Hermann Meyer. A contribution to the history of political ideas in the 19th century . Triltsch, Würzburg 1933 (Leipzig Phil. Diss. From July 3, 1931)
- Claus Baumgart, Rolf Gablenz: Friedrich Engels and Rudolf Meyer. A hitherto unknown autograph by Engels in the Leipzig University Library . In: Marx-Engels research reports, volume 2. Leipzig 1984, pp. 121–129.
- Lothar Machtan: Meyer, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 371 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Izumi Omura et al. (Ed.): Family Marx private: The photo and questionnaire albums of Marx's daughters Laura and Jenny. An annotated facsimile edition . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-05-004118-8
- Michael Dreyer : Meyer, Rudolf Herrmann. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present . Vol. 2/2: People L – Z. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24072-0 , pp. 552f.
Web links
- Karl Marx to Rudolph Hermann Meyer May 28, 1879
- Karl Marx to Rudolph Hermann Meyer August 7, 1879
- Friedrich Engels: Foreword to the second volume of Capital by Marx
- Friedrich Engels to Rudolph Hermann Meyer July 19, 1893
- IISG Marx Engels estate D 3399-3412 Meyer, Rudolf an Marx (1879-1881) 14 letters as well as L 4962-5006 Meyer, Rudolf an Engels. 1879-1895. 45 letters + enclosures
- IISG Karl Kautsky estate letters from Meyer, Rudolf to Kautsky D VII413-499 84 letters, 3 fragments and 6 enclosures
Individual evidence
- ↑ The spelling Rudolf or Rudolph appear on books . Which is the correct form of the name is still unknown.
- ^ Lothar Machtan: Meyer, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, p. 371 names two possible places of birth, namely also Schwarzsee Kreis Oststernberg . However, this is incorrect as the family database Kreise Arnswalde and Friedeberg (Neumark) shows.
- ^ Marie-Louise von Plessen : The effectiveness of the association for social politics from 1872 to 1890. Studies on the catheter and state socialism . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1975, p. 38
- ^ Family Marx private , pp. 112-113.
- ^ Marx excerpted this book (IISG Marx Engels Nachlass B 155 booklet CXXIX, beginning of June 1879, pp. 2–40: R. Meyer, Politische Gründer und die Corruption in Deutschland, 1877)
- ↑ Engels excerpted this book (IISG Marx Engels Nachlass J 34 Booklet IXX, 1878-1880 pp. 2–15: Rudolf Meyer, Politische Gründer 1877)
- ↑ The first volume is one of the missing ex-libris by Karl Marx (MEGA division IV vol. 32, p. 66).
- ↑ With a dedication from Meyer to Engels. MEGA Department IV Vol. 32, No. 555, p. 322.
- ↑ Also a gift from Meyer to Engels with a dedication. MEGA Department IV Vol. 32, No. 889, p. 460.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Meyer, Rudolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Rudolf Hermann; Meyer, Rudolph Hermann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1839 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedeberg , Neumark |
DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1899 |
Place of death | Dessau |