Wilhelm Fink (bookseller)

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Wilhelm Joseph Fink (born February 17, 1833 in Munich ; died May 23, 1890 in Gera ) was a German typesetter , bookseller, and social democrat .

Life

Wilhelm Fink learned the profession of typesetter and was a member of the First International (IAA) before September 1870 . From October 1871 he was a travel agent for the newspaper “Der Volksstaat. Organ of the Social Democratic Workers 'Party and the International Trade Unions ” in Leipzig and member of the Socialist Workers' Party in Germany .

In February 1872 Wilhelm Liebknecht reported on various interrogations that Fink learned from the Leipzig political police. In August 1872 he took care of the feeding of the Hague Congress of the IAA, as he reported to Friedrich Engels . In 1873/1874 he was employed as an agitator by the party committee of the Social Democratic Party. He was a delegate at the Gotha Association Congress from May 22nd to 27th, 1875 and represented there a total of 162 party members from Colditz , Frohburg , Geithain , Groitzsch , Lausigk and Lunzenau . After the party congress he became a travel agent for the “Vorwärts. Central Organ of Social Democracy in Germany ” .

Wilhelm Fink ran for the Reichstag in the 14th Saxon constituency ( Borna , Geithain, Rochlitz ), but did not receive an absolute majority. In 1880 he was a member of the management of the Leipzig cooperative printing company. On June 28, 1881 he was expelled from Leipzig after the imposition of the small state of siege under the Socialist Law . After he was expelled from Leipzig, he had been in Gera since July 6, 1881. He ran a small bookstore there, but was forbidden to him on July 20, 1881 by the Gera district office. His wife Eleonore Fink, b. Maurer (born 1833) took over the business until he was allowed to run it again in February 1883. Since the shop was too low in income, he taught bookkeeping and did written work.

In April 1883 he was sentenced to 14 days in prison for insulting officials. Occasionally he wrote under the code name Bayerischer Hiersel for the illegal Zürcher Zeitung Der Sozialdemokrat . With Carl Hugo Rödiger , who was also expelled from Leipzig in 1881 , Fink played a leading role in the local social democracy. The police ruled on him in 1883: "Fink is still an avid socialist, which can be seen especially in socialist meetings, in which he always excels and is usually on the board."

He saw the end of the Socialist Law with the Reichstag election in February 1890 and died a little later on May 23, 1890 in Gera.

Letters

  • Wilhelm Fink to Johann Philipp Becker September 3, 1870.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Friedrich Engels November 11, 1871.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Friedrich Engels April 25, 1872.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Friedrich Engels August 7, 1872.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Friedrich Engels October 14, 1872.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Friedrich Engels October 19, 1872.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Johann Philipp Becker November 12, 1872.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Friedrich Engels September 22, 1873.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Friedrich Engels October 13, 1873.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Johann Philipp Becker September 5, 1874.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Johann Philipp Becker September 24, 1874.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Johann Philipp Becker November 18, 1874.
  • Christian Hadlich and Wilhelm Fink to Johann Philipp Becker April 18, 1875.
  • Wilhelm Fink to Johann Philipp Becker January 2, 1878.

Titles published by the publisher

  • Hermann Nebel (Hrsg.): Six smaller speeches by Blum held in the German parliament . Leipzig 1879 (= selected speeches and writings by Robert Blum . Ed. By Hermann Nebel. Issue 8)
  • German youth treasure . Editing by Wilhelm Hasenclever and Bruno Geiser . 1879 to no.26, 1880.

literature

  • The First International in Germany (1864–1872). Documents and materials . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1964, pp. 633, 634, 652, 662, 663.
  • Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with German Social Democrats, Volume I. 1862-1878 . Ed. And edit. by Georg Eckert . Van Gorcum, Assen 1973, ISBN 90-232-0858-7 , pp. 409, 410, 421, 434, 455, 506, 521, 522, 578, 588, 676, 698, 772.
  • Dieter Fricke : The German labor movement 1869-1914. A handbook on their activity in the class struggle . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 33, 95.
  • Helga Berndt: Biographical sketches of Leipzig worker functionaries. Documentation on the 100th anniversary of the Socialist Law 1878–1890 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 117–118.
  • Ursula Hermann (eds.): August and Julie Bebel . Letters of a marriage . JHW Dietz Successor, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-8012-0243-7 , pp. 37 f., 43 f., 51, 54, 122, 124, 125.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Munich, September 3, 1870. Dearest party member!" (Wilhelm Fink to Johann Philipp Becker September 3, 1870. IISG Johann Philipp Becker Papers DI-591.)
  2. ↑ Ursula Hermann (eds.): August and Julie Bebel. Letters of a marriage , p. 38.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Liebknecht to Friedrich Engels February 20, 1872. ( The First International in Germany (1864–1872) , p. 633 f.)
  4. ^ Wilhelm Fink to Friedrich Engels August 7, 1872.
  5. ↑ Dieter Fricke: The German Labor Movement 1869-1914 , p. 33.
  6. ↑ Dieter Fricke: The German labor movement 1869-1914 , p. 95.
  7. ↑ The constituency was won by the German Conservative Party .
  8. ↑ Ursula Hermann (eds.): August and Julie Bebel. Letters from a Marriage , p. 125.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Huschke: On the origin of leading personalities of the older workers' movement in Thuringia . In: Genealogisches Jahrbuch 2 (1962), p. 32.
  10. ↑ Helga Berndt: Biographical Sketches of Leipzig Worker Functionaries , p. 118.
  11. ^ The I. Internationale in Deutschland (1864–1872) , p. 662 f.
personal data
SURNAME Fink, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fink, Wilhelm Joseph (full name); Bayerischer Hiersel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller, politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1890
Place of death Gera