Julius Motteler Papers from RGASPI 1854-1908

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Julius Motteler Papers from RGASPI

Collection ID ARCH00905 Creator Motteler, Julius Period 1854-1908 Extent 2 microfilms Language list English Language of Material German

Context

Biographical Note Born in Esslingen, Wrttemberg 1838, died in Leipzig, Germany 1907; trained as a cloth- manufacturer and clothier; social democratic organizer, known as `der rote Postmeister'; one of the founders of the Arbeiterbildungsverein Crimmitschau in 1863 and consequently co-founder in 1869 of the Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei (SDAP); active as a union, cooperative and party organizer as well as a manager of the printing cooperatives in Leipzig 1874-1876 and Barmen 1877; member of the Reichstag for the SDAP 1874-1878, from 1875 the Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAPD); under the `Sozialistengesetz' he was in charge of the illegal distribution in Germany of the party's exile organ Der Sozialdemokrat at first from Zurich and later, after having been expelled from Switzerland in 1888, from London; returned to Germany in 1901 to head the publishing house of the Leipziger Volkszeitung.

Content and Structure

Content Articles and draft articles by Motteler; correspondence by Julius and Emilie Motteler with John B. Askew, S. Csapó, Max Grunwald, Boøleslav Jedrzejowski and Witold Jodko 1876-1906; notes and abstracts 1875-1907; documents regarding international socialist meetings and meetings of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD).

Subjects

Geographic Names Germany

Persons Askew, John Bertram Jodko, Witold

Organizations SPD

Themes

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Socialist and social democrat parties/Socialist International Press/Journalism

Material Type Archival material

Access and Use

Access Not restricted

Restrictions on Use For quotations of more than 6 lines ans publication of complete documents permission is requested by RCChIDNI.

Other Finding Aid Inventory available in IISH-reading room.

Preferred Citation Julius Motteler Papers from RGASPI, inventory number ..., International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Allied Materials

Location of Originals Originals at the RGASPI (Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History), the former RCChIDNI, Moscow, fund 203)

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