Hermann Duncker
Hermann Duncker | |
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Leipzig Conservatory | |
Political party | Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1947–1960) Communist Party of Germany (1919–1947) Social Democratic Party of Germany |
Spouse | Käte Duncker |
Children | Karl Duncker Wolfgang Duncker |
Awards | Order of Karl Marx (1953) |
Hermann Ludwig Rudolph Duncker (24 May 1874 – 22 June 1960) was a German Marxist politician, historian and social scientist. He was a lecturer for the workers' education movement, co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany, professor at the University of Rostock, and rector of East Germany's trade union academy.
Biography
Duncker was born in Hamburg as a son of a businessman and teacher. He studied music at the
In 1900, Duncker started teaching at the Leipzig workers' educational association. In 1903 he completed his Ph.D. under supervision of Karl Bücher and Karl Lamprecht. In the same year, Duncker became a journalist at the SPD-affiliated Leipziger Volkszeitung. In 1904, he founded a "workers' secretariat" (information and advice centre for the labour movement) in Leipzig, and in the following year in Dresden. In 1907, the family moved to Stuttgart from where Hermann Duncker toured the country as an itinerant teacher for workers' education.[1]
During the
After the
Käte Duncker had fled to the United States, living with their son Karl who suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1940. When the German
After the end of the war, Käte and Hermann Duncker returned to Germany (
Duncker was awarded the
References
- ^ a b c d e f Hermann Weber; Andreas Herbst (2008). Deutsche Kommunisten. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 bis 1945. K. Dietz. pp. 202–203.
- ^ Mario Keßler (2019). Westemigranten: Deutsche Kommunisten zwischen USA-Exil und DDR. Böhlau Verlag. pp. 57–58.
- ^ "Duncker, Hermann". Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium. University of Rostock. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ^ Joachim Hoffmann (2001). Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. Ein deutscher Nationalfriedhof. Das Neue Berlin.
External links
- Hermann Duncker Archive at Marxists.org
- Texts by Hermann Duncker in German