Friedrich Adolph Sorge

Friedrich Adolph Sorge was born in Saxony in 1826 and died in the USA in 1906. He was involved in the revolution of 1848. Sorge was a German communist who took part in the Baden rising of 1849. He lived in the United States as in emigrant and played a well-known part in the German and North American labor movement. In 1857, he co-founded the Communist Club in New York.

Sorge founded a section of the International Workingmen's Association in 1867, and was a member of the IWMA North American Federation in 1871. He was always in correspondence with Marx and Engels, and he fought for the line of the General Council in the American sections of the IWMA. Sorge became General Secretary of the IWMA in 1872 after the conversion of the General Council to New York. He resigned this office in 1874 when Lassalleans took over.

Sources

Schoenhals, Kai. “Friedrich A. Sorge's Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class from 1890 to 1896”. Journal of American History, Vol. 76, (1989), pp. 625-626.