Archives 1844-1878.

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Archives 1844-1878.

Correspondence with Adolf Cluss 1851-1854, Hermann Meyer 1857-1864 and others; manuscripts on wages, economic crises in Europe and the USA, in particular in the South; press clippings of his articles from American newspapers and periodicals concerning the political and economic situation in the South (in particular Missouri), tax reform, eight hour movement, votes for blacks, etc.; papers of his wife Luise Weydemeyer-Lüning and of Otto, Laura and Wilhelm Weydemeyer, mainly correspondence.

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Weydemeyer, Joseph

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Born in Münster, Prussia 1818, died in St. Louis, USA 1866; lieutenant of the Prussian artillery 1839-1845, influenced by Rhenish democracy and Westphalian true socialism; member of the Kommunistische Korrespondenzkomitee, Brussels 1846, cooperated with Marx and Engels; founded similar organizations in Germany; contributed to the Westphälische Dampfboot (O. Lüning); organized workers' societies during the 1848/49 Revolution in Westphalen; edited with Lüning from July 1848 the Neue Deutsche Z...