14-489: GLD may refer to: Organisations [ edit ] German Labour Delegation , an American exile organization Government Legal Department of the United Kingdom Government Logistics Department of Hong Kong People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department , China Other [ edit ] Global Lexicostatistical Database ,
28-639: A linguistics database Global Love Day , mainly in the United States Goodland Municipal Airport , in Kansas, United States Guildford railway station in England Nanai language , spoken in Russia and China (ISO 639 code gld ) SPDR Gold Shares , an exchange-traded fund Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
42-603: Is published every two months, mailed to all SPD members. The paper was founded as a merger of the Eisenacher's Der Volksstaat and the Lasalleans Der Sozialdemokrat ( General German Workers' Association ). Its first editors were Wilhelm Hasenclever and Wilhelm Liebknecht . Friedrich Engels and Kurt Tucholsky both wrote for Vorwärts . It backed the Russian Marxist economists and then, after
56-571: The Jewish Labor Committee. However, the GLD did manage to contribute to saving several hundred endangered Social Democrats from arrest by the German authorities and getting them out of France in 1940. The GLD also worked on developing plans for the reconstruction of the workers' movement and the introduction of democratic structures in post-Nazi Germany. Due to its small size and its activities in planning,
70-501: The KPD. However, its effectiveness was also constrained by internal conflicts. Amongst these were the dispute over Grzesinski's work in the Council for a Democratic Germany , which saw itself as a gathering point for all the German emigrants, including members of the KPD. There was also very little success in securing financial donations. The GLD was only able to maintain an office with the support of
84-619: The chairmanship. The German Labour Delegation published the Neue Volkszeitung , which was at first a daily, then later a weekly newspaper. The organisation did not have a large membership. Its members were those who in the Weimar Republic had generally belonged to the right wing of the SPD. The organisation was therefore strongly against any cooperation with the Communist Party of Germany ,
98-569: The former mayor of Altona Max Brauer , Hedwig Wachenheim , the Austrian Social Democrat Alfred Braunthal , Gerhart Seger (a former member of the Reichstag ), and the economist Alfred Kähler . People who later became members of the committee included Friedrich Stampfer , the former editor of Vorwärts , the trade unionist Siegfried Aufhäuser , Erich Rinner and Wilhelm Sollmann . In 1943 Brauer and Aufhäuser took over
112-516: The organization is sometimes seen by scholars as a research institution. Vorw%C3%A4rts Vorwärts ( German: [ˈfɔʁvɛʁts] , "Forward") is a newspaper published by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Founded in 1876, it was the central organ of the SPD for many decades. Following the party's Halle Congress (1891), it was published daily as the successor of Berliner Volksblatt , founded in 1884. Today, it
126-615: The split in the Party, the Mensheviks . It published articles by Leon Trotsky , but would not publish any by Vladimir Lenin . During the First World War , Vorwärts remained in favour of pacifism and neutrality and opposed the SPD's Burgfriedenspolitik until 1916 when, sometime after Rudolf Hilferding had been drafted into the Austrian army, Friedrich Stampfer [ de ]
140-486: The title GLD . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GLD&oldid=1233824579 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages German Labour Delegation The German Labour Delegation (GLD)
154-806: Was a social-democratic organisation of German emigrants in the United States during the time of Nazi Germany . The GLD was founded on 10 March 1939 in New York City , with the support of the Jewish Labor Committee , the Social Democratic Federation (United States) , and the American Federation of Labour . Its goal was to build contact between the German social-democratic emigrants and the American labor movement. Amongst other things, it
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#1732858831326168-699: Was financed by "American Jews and Henry Ford ." During the Nazi period, the Social Democratic Party of Germany was banned, and so the publication of Vorwärts in Germany had to stop in 1933, but it was continued in exile in Czechoslovakia until 1938 and subsequently in Paris until 1940. In 1948, the paper was refounded as Neuer Vorwärts ("New Forward") and in 1955 renamed Vorwärts again. As of 2020, it has
182-568: Was introduced as editor-in-chief. He guided the central organ back towards the party line (prompting accusations from half of the Socialist camp that it had become chauvinist ). The paper was staunchly opposed to the October Revolution , standing up for the attempt to bring parliamentarism to Germany. In 1923, Vorwärts lost a libel trial brought by Adolf Hitler , and was ordered to pay him 6,000,000 marks . The paper had claimed Hitler
196-564: Was to try to secure financial support in America for the work of Sopade , the exile organization of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (the SPD). The former Prussian Minister of the Interior Albert Grzesinski was elected the first chairman, and Rudolf Katz became the secretary, who would later become a minister in the government of Schleswig-Holstein . Other founding members included
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