Friedrich Adolph Sorge
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Friedrich Adolph Sorge 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 but falsely claimed to be his grandson.
Germany
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communist who took part in the Baden rising of 1849. He lived in the United States
United States
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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
International Workingmen's Association
The International Workingmen's Association , sometimes called the First International, was an international organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, communist and anarchist political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class...
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
Richard Sorge
Richard Sorge was a German communist and spy who worked for the Soviet Union. He has gained great fame among espionage enthusiasts for his intelligence gathering during World War II. He worked as a journalist in both Germany and Japan, where he was imprisoned for spying and eventually hanged....
was his grandnephew but falsely claimed to be his grandson.
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.