Everything about Franz Erdmann Mehring totally explained
Franz Erdmann Mehring (born
27 February 1846 in
Schlawe,
Pomerania, died
29 January 1919 in
Berlin), was a
German publicist,
politician and
historian.
He worked for various daily and weekly newspapers and over many years wrote lead articles for the weekly magazine
Neue Zeit. In
1868 he moved to Berlin to study, and worked in the editorial office of the
Die Zukunft newspaper.
From
1871–
1874, Mehring worked for the Correspondence Office in
Oldenburg, writing reports on sessions of the
Reichstag and the local parliament. He became a well-known parliamentary reporter, working for the
Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper and
Die Waage, a newspaper published by
Leopold Sonnemann (
1831–
1909).
Mehring left
Die Waage after an argument with Sonnemann and in
1884 became chief editor of the liberal Berlin
Volks-Zeitung newspaper. He spoke out against
Bismarck’s law banning
Socialism although he was himself a member of the
bourgeoisie.
In
1891 Mehring joined the
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Mehring was a
Marxist. His image of
Friedrich Nietzsche as a
capitalist had large influences for the negative image that
socialists and
communists in the
20th century had of Nietzsche. Many members of the much smaller, and ideologically less predictable
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany were Nietzsche enthusiasts.
Between
1902 and
1907 Mehring was the chief editor of the Social Democratic
Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper. From
1906 to
1911 he taught at the SPD’s Party school. He was a member of the
Prussian parliament from
1917 to
1918.
During the
First World War Mehring began to distance himself from the SPD. In
1916 the left-wing
Marxist revolutionary
Spartacist League was founded and Mehring was one of its main leaders alongside
Karl Liebknecht and
Rosa Luxemburg.
Franz Mehring wrote a Marxist analysis of the actions of
Swedish warrior king
Gustavus Adolphus, claiming the
Thirty Years' War had little to do with religion (the official explanation) and everything to do with economics (the Marxist explanation). In 1918, "after long and irritating delays owing to the military censorship" (according to the English translator Edward Fitzgerald, 1935 U.S. edition), Mehring's great biography of Karl Marx was published, dedicated to fellow Spartacist
Clara Zetkin.
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