L’Ordine Nuovo / Contributor

Franz Mehring

Name
Franz Mehring
Born
27 February 1846, Schlawe, Pomerania (now Sławno, Poland)
Died
28 January 1919, Berlin
Aliases
Franz Mehring; other aliases: unknown
Position in 1919–1920
Marxist historian, journalist, and communist founding participant until his death in January 1919; deceased during the indexed May issues
Affiliations
SPD (earlier); Spartacus group; founding circle of the KPD
Council delegate
unknown
Bio
Mehring was a Marxist historian and a major journalist of German social democracy. During the First World War he opposed war credits and helped establish the Spartacus group, suffering imprisonment in 1916. He participated in preparations for the KPD’s foundation at the end of 1918. He died in Berlin on 28 January 1919, shortly after the murders of Luxemburg and Liebknecht.
Articles
1

Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.

Brief records / quotations
0 · Separate from the Articles count.
Other Notes
The indexed May item is a posthumous reprinting of the Christmas 1918 joint appeal.

Sources

Biographical research checked 2026-10-06. Printed signatures and contribution details follow the indexed facsimiles and the catalog’s attribution notes. “unknown” means not securely established; advocacy of councils does not establish service as an elected delegate.

  1. Deutsches Historisches Museum, LeMO: Franz Mehring