1. Friedrich Adolph Sorge was a German communist political leader who emigrated to the United States, where he played an important role in the labor movement, including the foundation of the Socialist Labor Party of America.
15 Facts About Friedrich Sorge
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Friedrich Adolph Sorge was born on 9 November 1828 in Bethau, Kingdom of Prussia, son of the Reverend Georg Sorge and Hedwig Lange.
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Friedrich Sorge's father was a free-thinking person, and often gave shelter to Polish revolutionaries travelling from France and Belgium to Poland.
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Friedrich Sorge was 19 when the revolutions of 1848 in the German states began.
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Friedrich Sorge joined a group of armed revolutionaries in Saxony, but they were quickly suppressed by Pomeranian troops and Sorge was forced to take refuge in Switzerland.
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Friedrich Sorge returned to Germany and joined the Karlsruhe Freikorps.
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Friedrich Sorge's unit fought the Prussians in Baden and the Palatinate, losing both times.
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Friedrich Sorge became a music teacher, married and settled in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Friedrich Sorge became an active socialist in 1865, after the end of the American Civil War, and soon became the leading proponent of Karl Marx's views in the United States.
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From 1872 to 1874 Friedrich Sorge was general secretary of the First International's worldwide organization.
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Friedrich Sorge's appointment followed the split between Marx and the anarchists led by Mikhail Bakunin, and a decision in September 1872 by the Hague Congress to transfer the IWA General Council to New York.
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In 1877 Friedrich Sorge led a Marxist-oriented group in Newark that founded the Socialist Labor Party of America.
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Friedrich Sorge organized the International Labor Union of Hoboken in 1883.
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Friedrich Sorge contributed articles to the German Marxist journal Die Neue Zeit from 1891 to 1895, discussing the history of socialism in the United States.
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Friedrich Sorge died on 26 October 1906 in Hoboken, New Jersey.