Alfons Goldschmidt
Alfons Goldschmidt (28 November 1879, Gelsenkirchen – 20 or 21 January 1940, Mexico City) was a German Journalist, economist and university lecturer.
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Alfons Goldschmidt in 1923
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 travelled to the Soviet Union in 1920, arriving in Moscow on 1st May.[2]
He was chairperson of the German section of Workers International Relief.
Works
- Die Wirtschaftsorganisation Sowjet-Russlands (1920) Berlin: E. Rowohlt
- Moskau 1920; Tagebuchblätter (1920) Berlin: E. Rowohlt
- Argentinien (1923) Berlin: E. 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.
- "Moscow in 1920". Soviet Russia. Russian Soviet Government Bureau. III (No. 13, 25 Septembver). 1920.
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