Name Wilhelm Wolff | ||
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Died May 9, 1864, Manchester, United Kingdom | ||
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Wilhelm Friedrich Wolff, nicknamed Lupus (21 June 1809 – 9 May 1864) was a German schoolmaster.
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Life
Wolff was born in Tarnau, Kreis Frankenstein, Silesia (now Tarnów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, (Ząbkowice Śląskie), Poland). In 1831 he became active as a radical student organization member, for which he was imprisoned between 1834 and 1838.
In 1846, in Brussels, Wolff became a close friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He was active in the Brussels Communist Correspondence Committee and a member of the League of the Just in addition to being Co-founder of the League of Communists in 1848 as a member of its central authority. He served as an editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in 1848-9 and as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly.
Wolff emigrated to Switzerland in 1849 and then to England in 1851.
Legacy
On his death, Wolff left a substantial fortune to Marx, who dedicated the first volume of Das Kapital to him with the line "To my unforgettable friend, Wilhelm Wolff. Intrepid, faithful, noble protagonist of the proletariat."
Gerhart Hauptmann's play Die Weber (The Weavers) is based on Wolff's essay about the weavers' uprising in Silesia in 1844 and its suppression, Das Elend und der Aufuhr in Schlesien.