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Joseph Weydemeyer

1818 - 1866

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Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer (February 2, 1818 – August 26, 1866) was a military officer in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States as well as a journalist, politician and Marxist revolutionary. At first a supporter of "true socialism", Weydemeyer became in 1845–1846 a follower of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and a member of the League of Communists, heading its Frankfurt chapter from 1849 to 1851. He visited Marx in Brussels, staying there for a time to attend Marx's lectures. He participated in the 1848 Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Weydemeyer is the 524th most popular social activist (up from 545th in 2019), the 4,836th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,994th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 524 out of 840. Before him are Katie Eder, Ibrahim Zakzaky, Tarab Abdul Hadi, Meena Keshwar Kamal, Szeto Wah, and Vladimir Burtsev. After him are Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Annie Kenney, Charu Majumdar, Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba, and Tatyana Baramzina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 91. Before him are Jan Heemskerk, Ludwig Traube, Ilya Berezin, Lucy Stone, František Ladislav Rieger, and Constantin von Wurzbach. After him are Nikolay Milyutin, Henry Litolff, József Szlávy, Juana Manuela Gorriti, José Amador de los Ríos, and Don Carlos Buell. Among people deceased in 1866, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 45. Before him are George Ord, János Scitovszky, Jean-Jacques Willmar, José Ignacio Pavón, John Ross, and Louis Fraser. After him are Henryk Rzewuski, Louis Meijer, Thomas Love Peacock, Matvey Gusev, Lewis Cass, and Manuel Felipe de Tovar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 4,839 out of 7,253. Before him are Günther Herrmann (1939), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), Manfred Kaiser (1929), Martin Noth (1902), Alice Salomon (1872), and Rosemary Murphy (1925). After him are Bärbel Wöckel (1955), Karl Mauch (1837), Paul Warburg (1868), Ilona Slupianek (1956), Henning von Holtzendorff (1853), and Gerhard Lamprecht (1897).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 35. Before him are Anita Augspurg (1857), Inge Scholl (1917), Theodor Loos (1883), Henriette Herz (1764), Helene Stöcker (1869), and Eugen Drewermann (1940). After him are Lida Heymann (1868), and Luisa Neubauer (1996).

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