Hermann Ludwig Rudolph Duncker was a German Marxist politician, historian and social scientist.
15 Facts About Hermann Duncker
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Hermann Duncker 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.
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Hermann Duncker studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory, then history, economics and philosophy at the University of Leipzig.
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Hermann Duncker joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1893.
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In 1898 he married Kate Hermann Duncker who was then a teacher, but became a socialist politician, journalist and feminist.
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In 1900, Hermann Duncker started teaching at the Leipzig workers' educational association.
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In 1907, the family moved to Stuttgart from where Hermann Duncker toured the country as an itinerant teacher for workers' education.
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Hermann Duncker resumed his lecture tours and directed KPD schools on the regional and national level.
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Hermann Duncker represented the relatively moderate "Middle Group" within the party that aimed for a united front with the Social Democrats.
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Hermann Duncker was distraught over the persecution of his son Wolfgang who was a comrade and friend Nikolai Bukharin during Stalin's Great Purge in the Soviet Union.
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Kate Hermann Duncker had fled to the United States, living with their son Karl who suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1940.
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Hermann Duncker's wife organised a visa for Duncker's entry to the United States in late-1940.
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Hermann Duncker joined the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
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Hermann Duncker was awarded the Order of Karl Marx in 1953, an honorary doctorate of the University of Leipzig in 1954 and the highest class of the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1955.
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Hermann Duncker was buried near the Memorial to the Socialists at the Berlin Friedrichsfelde central cemetery.