Rosa Meyer-Leviné

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Rosa Meyer-Leviné (nee Broido, 1890–1979) was a German communist activist and writer. [1] She was the widow of Eugen Leviné and Ernst Meyer. [1]

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Background and career

Rosa Broido was born in Gródek, the daughter of a rabbi. [2] After her father's death she moved to Vienna and then Heidelberg, where she met Leviné in 1915. [2] They had a child together and moved to Munich in 1918. [2]

After Leviné was executed for his role in the Bavarian Soviet Republic, she was expelled from Munich, moving first to Heidelberg and then Berlin. [2] In Berlin she was active in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and worked as an interpreter and publicist. [2] She married Ernst Meyer, a KPD leader, in 1922. [2]

In 1933, she left Germany for England to escape the Nazi regime. [2]

Meyer-Leviné broke with Stalin and the Communist Party after the Moscow trials of 1938 but remained a believer in communism until her death. [2] She continued to work as a political journalist after the Second World War. [2]

She returned to Heidelberg for a time in the 1960s but otherwise remained in England until her death in 1979. [2]

Meyer-Leviné knew many prominent figures in the twentieth-century European left, both before and after World War II, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Karl Radek, Eric Hobsbawm, Erich Fried and Rudi Dutschke. [2] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Howald 1-2
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Meyer-Leviné, Rosa. Deutsche Biographie.
  3. ↑ "DNB Bookviewer". portal.dnb.de.

Sources

Howald, Stefan. "A tangled web: Stuart Hood, Rosa Meyer-Leviné and Renée Goddard"

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