Rosa Meyer-Leviné
Rosa Meyer-Leviné (nee Broido, 1890–1979) was a German communist activist and writer.[1] She was the widow of Eugen Leviné and Ernst Meyer.[1]
Background and career
[edit]Rosa Broido was born in Gródek, the daughter of a rabbi.[2] After her father's death she moved to Vienna and then Heidelberg, where she met Leviné in 1915.[2] They had a child together and moved to Munich in 1918.[2]
After Leviné was executed for his role in the Bavarian Soviet Republic, she was expelled from Munich, moving first to Heidelberg and then Berlin.[2] In Berlin she was active in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and worked as an interpreter and publicist.[2] She married Ernst Meyer, a KPD leader, in 1922.[2]
In 1933, she left Germany for England to escape the Nazi regime.[2]
Meyer-Leviné broke with Stalin and the Communist Party after the Moscow trials of 1938 but remained a believer in communism until her death.[2] She continued to work as a political journalist after the Second World War.[2]
She returned to Heidelberg for a time in the 1960s but otherwise remained in England until her death in 1979.[2]
Meyer-Leviné knew many prominent figures in the twentieth-century European left, both before and after World War II, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Karl Radek, Eric Hobsbawm, Erich Fried and Rudi Dutschke.[2][1]
Books
[edit]- Aus der Münchener Rätezeit.[3] Vereinigung Internationaler Verlags-Anstalten, 1925.
- Leviné: The Life of a Revolutionary. Introduction by Eric Hobsbawm. Saxon House, 1973.
- Inside German Communism: Memoirs of Party Life in the Weimar Republic. Pluto Press, 1977.
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]Howald, Stefan. "A tangled web: Stuart Hood, Rosa Meyer-Leviné and Renée Goddard"