Alfons Goldschmidt

German journalist, economist and university lecturer

Alfons Goldschmidt in 1923

Alfons Goldschmidt (28 November 1879, Gelsenkirchen - 20 or 21 January 1940, Mexico City) was a German journalist, economist and university lecturer.

## Life

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Goldschmidt 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 was co-editor of Räte-Zeitung with Leo Matthias.[2]

He travelled to the Soviet Russia in 1920, arriving in Moscow on 1 May.[3]

He was chairperson of the German section of Workers International Relief.[4]

A heart attack claimed his life on Sunday in Mexico City. The German-American Writers Association, of which he was a member, made the announcement. Goldschmidt's books were set on fire by the Nazis. He had been invited by the Mexican government to teach at the University of Mexico City for a year. [5]

## Works

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* Die Wirtschaftsorganisation Sowjet-Russlands (1920) Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt
* Moskau 1920; Tagebuchblätter (1920) Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt
* Argentinien (1923) Berlin: Ernst 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

## References

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1. ^ Deák, István (1968). Weimar Germany's Left-wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbühne and Its Circle. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2. ^ Dove, Richard; Mallett, Michael; Lamb, Stephen (18 June 1992). German Writers and Politics 1918–39. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-11815-1.
3. ^ "Moscow in 1920". Soviet Russia. Vol. III, no. 13\. Russian Soviet Government Bureau. 25 September 1920.
4. ^ Warren, Beth Gates. "Edward Weston and His German Connections" (PDF). Retrieved 21 December 2023.
5. ^ Kuntz Ficker, Sandrea Kuntz (February 2006). "Jürgen Buchenau, Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City, 1895–Present (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004), pp. xi+267, $49.95, hb". Journal of Latin American Studies. 38 (1): 193–194\. doi:10.1017/s0022216x05290673. ISSN 0022-216X. S2CID 144417263.

## External links

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* Newspaper clippings about Alfons Goldschmidt in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

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