Max Beer

Max Beer
Born	August 10, 1864 Tarnobrzeg
Died	April 30, 1943 London
Occupation	Marxist historian

Max Beer (1864 - 1943) was an Austrian-German Marxist historian.

Beer was born in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and came to Germany in 1889 where he became editor of a Socialist paper. He moved to Great Britain in 1894 and lived there for many years. Beer wrote books on the history of the socialist movement and later moved to the Soviet Union where he worked at the Marx-Engels-Institute in Moscow. Between 1929 and 1933, Beer was active in the German Communist Party where he lived and worked in Frankfurt am Main. When the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, Beer fled to London where he later died.

There is a street in the Mitte district of Berlin named after Beer.

External links

• Biography at the Marxists Internet Archive

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Name	Beer, Max
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Date of birth	August 10, 1864
Place of birth	Tarnobrzeg
Date of death	April 30, 1943
Place of death	London