Alfons Goldschmidt
Alfons Goldschmidt (28 November 1879, Gelsenkirchen – 20 or 21 January 1940, Mexico City) was a German Journalist, economist and university lecturer.
Alfons was born in Gelsenkirchen. He was finance editor for Rudolf Mosse's Berliner Tageblatt, and held the chair of economics at the University of Leipzig.[1]
In 1919 he was one of the founders of the League for Proletarian Culture. He was co-editor of Räte-Zeitung with Leo Matthias.[2]
He travelled to the Soviet Union in 1920, arriving in Moscow on 1st May.[3]
He was chairperson of the German section of Workers International Relief.
Works
- Die Wirtschaftsorganisation Sowjet-Russlands (1920) Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt
- Moskau 1920; Tagebuchblätter (1920) Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt
- Argentinien (1923) Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt
- Mexiko (1925)
- Auf Den Spuren Der Azteken (1927)
- Whither Israel? (1934) New York, (with a foreword by Albert Einstein)
- The fate of trade unions under fascism (1937) New York: Anti-fascist literature committee
- Grosse Liebe, weite Welt oder zwischen Rio Bravo und Moskwa : Reise- u. Zeitbilder 1920-1940 (1974) Berlin : Buchverlag Der Morgen
External links
References
- ^ Deák, István (1968). Weimar Germany's Left-wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbühne and Its Circle. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- ^ Dove, Richard; Mallett, Michael; Lamb, Stephen (18 June 1992). German Writers and Politics 1918–39. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-11815-1.
- ^ "Moscow in 1920". Soviet Russia. III (No. 13, 25 Septembver). Russian Soviet Government Bureau. 1920.
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