Marx, Karl, 1897-1966

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Personal name heading	Marx, Karl, 1897-1966 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Germany
Associated place	Italy Tangier (Morocco) Great Britain
Located	Düsseldorf (Germany)
Birth date	18970509
Death date	19661215
Place of birth	Saarlouis (Germany)
Place of death	Baden-Baden (Germany)
Field of activity	Jewish newspapers Publishers and publishing--Germany (West) Jews--Germany (West) Germany (West)--Politics and government--1945-1990 Antisemitism--Germany Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Reparations Germany (West)--Relations--Israel Israel --Relations--Germany (West)
Affiliation	Germany. Heer Deutschen Demokratischen Jugend Deutsche Demokratische Partei Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland Zwischen den Zeiten Allgemeine jüdische Wochenzeitung Zionistischen Organisation in Deutschland International Union of Journalists Gesellschaft für deutsch-judische Zusammenarbeit Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands Grosse Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Profession or occupation	Jewish soldiers--Germany Jewish journalists--Germany (West) Publishers and publishing--Germany (West)
Found in	Karl Marx zum Gedenken (9. Mai 1897 - 15. Dezember 1966), 1967?: title page (Karl Marx; born May 9, 1897 in Saarlouis; died December 15, 1966 in Baden Baden; page 3, etc. (lived in Germany until the rise of Hitler when he fled first to Italy, then to Tanger, then to Great Britain. He returned in 1946 and founded a German-Jewish newspaper entitled Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland. He was an ardent Zionist, founding Zionistischen Organisation in Deutschland in 1954. Married Lilli Behrendt, also a journalist, in 1947. Worked for improving German-Jewish relations, reduction of antisemitism, securing reparations for Jewish victims of Nazism, removal of Nazis from post-war German political positions, and fostering of official relations between Germany and Israel.) German Wikipedia, viewed April 20, 2015 (Karl Marx (Journalist); born 9. Mai 1897 in Saarlouis; died 15. Dezember 1966 in Ebersteinburg. Son of Sigmund and Pauline Weil Marx. Participated in World War I as a soldier in the German Army from 1918, winning the Iron Cross, second class. After Alsace was ceded to France, he moved to Baden Baden where in 1919 he bacame a free lance journalist in Berlin and Baden Baden. He was a member of the Deutsche Demokratische Partei, and in 1920 became chairman of the Deutschen Demokratischen Jugend in Baden. With the rise of the Nazis, he fled to Italy between 1935 and 1939, Tanger where he worked until 1942 as a laborer. Then he made his way to Great Britain, working as a day-laborer in a factory for the duration of the war during which part of his family perished in Auschwitz. He was one of the first Jews to return to Germany after the war in 1946. He married Lilli Behrendt who was at his side in all his subsequent work. In 1946 he founded the Jüdisches Gemeinblatt für die Nord-Rheinprovinz und Westfalen which later grew into the Allegemeinen Wochenzeitung für Juden in Deutschland and in 1955 became the Allgemeine jüdische Wochenzeitung. Between 1946 and 1948 he edited a monthly entitled Zwischen den Zeiten. He was the founder of Gesellschaft für deutsch-judische Zusammenarbeit in Düsseldorf and head of the Zionistischen Organisation in Deutschland. In 1953 he was presented with the Grosse Verdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland for his efforts in furthering German-Jewish reconciliation. He is buried in Saarlouis.) Geller, Jay Howard, Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953, 2005: page 13 (Marx "slowly became something of an unofficial adviser to West German president Theodor Heuss on Jewish matters." His newspaper grew into an important tool for the postwar Jewish community in securing recognition and support. He was active in the liberal German Democratic Party. As an influential editor, he attempted to persuade Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that the federal government should appoint an adviser for Jewish affairs. He was a member of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands which was the most progressive party on reconciliation with the Jews. His newspaper grew from a local newspaper to the symbolic voice of the Jewish community in all of Germany. He was in close contact with German politicians and offered his services to the West German government as an adviser on Jewish affairs or as a middlemen for contacts with Israel. The government officials used his newspaper as a means of communicating their views to their Jewish constituents. Marx attacked the far right parties and political extremists and admonished the government for not doing enough to protect the Jews against synagogue arsonists and cemetery desecrators, and he exposed former Nazis and Nazi fellow travelers in positions of authority.) DNB in VIAF, viewed April 20, 2015 (authorized access point: Marx, Karl, 1897-1966; occupations: deutscher Journalist und Herausgeber)
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