Friedrich Adolph Sorge
Friedrich Adolph Sorge (9 November 1828, Bethau, Germany – 26 October 1906, Hoboken, New Jersey ) was involved in the revolution of 1848. Sorge was a German communist who took part in the Baden rising of 1849. He lived in the United States as an emigrant and played a well-known part in the German and North American labor movement. In 1857, he co-founded the Communist Club in New York.
Sorge founded a section of the International Workingmen's Association in 1867, and was a member of the IWMA North American Federation in 1871. He was always in correspondence with Marx and Engels, and he fought for the line of the General Council in the American sections of the IWMA. Sorge became General Secretary of the IWMA in 1872 after the conversion of the General Council to New York. He resigned this office in 1874 when Lassalleans took over.
The Soviet spy Richard Sorge was his grandnephew.
[edit] Sources
- Schoenhals, Kai. “Friedrich A. Sorge's Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class from 1890 to 1896”. Journal of American History, Vol. 76, (1989), pp. 625-626.
