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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Joseph Weydemeyer

1818 - 1866

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Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer (February 2, 1818 – August 26, 1866) was a military officer in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States as well as a journalist, politician and Marxist revolutionary. At first a supporter of "true socialism", Weydemeyer became in 1845–1846 a follower of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and a member of the League of Communists, heading its Frankfurt chapter from 1849 to 1851. He visited Marx in Brussels, staying there for a time to attend Marx's lectures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Weydemeyer has received more than 101,735 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Weydemeyer is the 492nd most popular social activist (down from 408th in 2019), the 4,609th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,940th in 2019) and the 29th most popular German Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 492 out of 538. Before him are Berta Cáceres, Ella Baker, Flora Brovina, Akira Amano, Shivakumara Swami, and Karina Pankievich. After him are Oswaldo Payá, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Wang Dan, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Marguerite Higgins, and Aminatou Haidar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 88. Before him are Benjamin Butler, František Ladislav Rieger, Joseph Roumanille, William M. Evarts, Don Carlos Buell, and Jan Heemskerk. After him are Elizabeth F. Ellet, John Henninger Reagan, Nathaniel Lyon, Wade Hampton III, George S. Boutwell, and Charles J. Folger. Among people deceased in 1866, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 45. Before him are William Hopkins, Matvey Gusev, Lewis Cass, José Ignacio Pavón, George Ord, and Louis Fraser. After him are Manuel Felipe de Tovar, Samuel Ryan Curtis, Robert F. Stockton, John Keble, and Clement Comer Clay.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 4,609 out of 6,142. Before him are Frauke Petry (1975), Bernd Leno (1992), Timur Vermes (1967), Jens Jeremies (1974), Georg Dascher (1911), and Bärbel Bas (1968). After him are Ingrid Becker (1942), Annette Schavan (1955), Andreas Kaplan (1977), Hermann Hansen (1912), Ole von Beust (1955), and Jürgen Kurths (1953).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Germany

Among social activists born in Germany, Joseph Weydemeyer ranks 29. Before him are Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909), Christa Schroeder (1908), William I, Margrave of Meissen (1343), Karl Ludwig Sand (1795), Anita Augspurg (1857), and Helene Stöcker (1869). After him are Luisa Neubauer (1996).

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