Marx, Karl
MARX, KARL
MARX, KARL (1897–1966), German editor and publisher. Born in Saarlouis, Marx served in the German army in World War i and then worked as a freelance writer for the Havas news agency. He was prominent in politics during the Weimar period, particularly because of his work in the organization of German democratic youth movements. In 1933 he fled Germany and eventually reached England. He returned to Germany in 1946 and was co-founder of a Jewish communal paper for the British zone that later became the Allgemeine Unabhaengige Juedische Wochenzeitung (Dusseldorf), which advocated reparations and diplomatic relations with Israel and opposed neo-Nazi manifestations.
bibliography:
M.W. Gärtner (ed.), Vom Schicksal Gepraegt. Freundesgabe zum 60 Geburtstag von Karl Marx (1957), 197; H. Lamm (ed.), Marx, Karl. Brueckenschlagen. Aufsaetze und Reden aus den Jahren 1946–1962 (1962); L. Marx, "Die Anfaenge der Allgemeinen Juedischen Wochenzeitung," in: M. Brenner, Nach dem Holocaust. Juden in Deutschland 1945–1950 (1995), 179–85.
[Monika Halbinger (2nd ed.)]