STAMPFER, FRIEDRICH
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STAMPFER, FRIEDRICH (1874–1957), journalist and politician; editor of
Vorwa¨rts,* the SPD's flagship newspaper.* Born to a German-Jewish family in
the Moravian capital of Bru¨nn (now the Czech city of Brno), he was raised in
the Habsburg Empire. He was already interested in socialism and journalism
while in Gymnasium and began working for Leipzig's Volkszeitung, a socialist
newspaper, while studying at the city's university. From 1903, after moving to
Berlin,* he published a revisionist sheet, Stampfer-Korrespondenz, that urged a
nonrevolutionary path to socialism. Following brief service with the Austrian
army during the war, he returned to Berlin; when the Party leadership seized
Vorwa¨rts in November 1916 from its leftist editorial staff, he was appointed the
paper's editor-in-chief, a post he held until 1933 (with Curt Geyer* from 1924).
Maintaining a patriotic line in his own writing, he joined Germany's peace
delegation in 1919. Although he resigned from Vorwa¨rts in protest to the Versailles
Treaty,* he resumed his post after a one-year hiatus.
Known in the Weimar era as the SPD's ‘‘grey eminence,'' Stampfer was
elected to the Reichstag* in June 1920 and retained his mandate until May 1933.
Part of his Party's right wing, he opposed reuniting with the small USPD in
1922, arguing that coalition would not work. Yet late in 1931 he began urging
the SPD's executive (which he had entered in 1925) to form a loose anti-Nazi
alliance with the KPD. Briefly arrested in February 1933, he emigrated to Prague
in May and, with Geyer as editor, soon began publishing Neuer Vorwa¨rts. In
May 1938, upon moving to Paris, he joined the executive of the SPD-in-exile.
Identified by the Gestapo as a leading Marxist-Communist, he made a dramatic
escape to the United States in 1940. His history of the Weimar era, Die vierzehn
Jahre der ersten Deutschen Republik (The fourteen years of the first German
republic), published in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia, in 1936, was released in Germany
in 1947. He returned to West Germany in 1948.
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