Waldeck Manasse

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Waldeck Manasse (born March 4, 1864 in Schlepzig , Lübben district , † May 13, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German writer and social democratic politician.

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The grave of Waldeck Manasse

Waldeck Manasse was born into a middle-class Jewish family and moved with his parents to Lübben in 1868 , where he attended school. Then he went to Berlin to become a businessman. In 1883 he was the founder and until 1893 chairman of the literary association "Schiller". After leaving the Jewish community, he joined the Free Religious Community of Berlin, whose spokesman he was elected on June 9, 1887. After giving up his job as a businessman in 1888, he studied philosophy and literary history for a few semesters at Berlin University . In 1890 he founded a small printing company to make a living.

From 1906 to 1920 Manasse was a member of the Berlin city council , where he campaigned for educational and art issues and made great contributions to poor relief and orphan care. In 1920 he was the first speaker for the district assembly in Berlin-Friedrichshain . He was also a member of the Prussian state parliament from 1921 until his death .

His grave is in the socialist cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde . The Pritstabelstrasse in Berlin-Köpenick bore his name from 1945 to 1948 (without official confirmation).

Works

  • Lessing, an apostle of free thought. Speech given on June 12, 1887 in the Free Religious Community in Berlin . 2nd edition, Rubenow, Berlin 1887
  • Love and freedom. Selected poems . 2nd edition, Conrad, Berlin 1888
  • Life questions. From faith to thinking, from the dispute between states to international peace, from unculture to humanity, from love to love, from becoming to dying . 2nd edition, Roth, Berlin [1910]
  • Gustav Thölde in memory. Pictures from his life . Roth in commission, Berlin [1910]
  • August Bebel. Commemorative speech . Roth, Berlin [1913]; Microfiche delivery: Belser Wiss. Dienst, Wildberg 1990, ISBN 3-628-00026-2

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . 6th edition, Volume 4, Leipzig 1913, p. 355
  • Obituaries . In: Forward . May 14, 20 and 22, 1923
  • Franz Osterroth: Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume 1, Dietz, Hannover 1960, p. 211
  • Reinhard Müller: Manasse, Waldeck . In: Wilhelm Kosch (founder): Deutsches Theaterlexikon . 3rd edition, Volume 10, Francke-Verlag, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-317-01539-X , Sp. 294

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waldeck-Manasse-Strasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
personal data
SURNAME Manasse, Waldeck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and social democratic politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlepzig , district of Lübben
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1923
Place of death Berlin