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Friedrich was born on November 9, 1828 in Bethau bei Torgau, Saxony, the son of Georg Wilhelm and Hedwig Klothilde (Lange) Sorge.
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Friedrich A. Sorge's Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class from 1890 to 1896 (Contributions in Women's Studies #73) (English, German) Friedrich A. Sorge's Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class from 1890 to 1896 (Contributions in Women's Studies #73) (English, German) by Sorge, Friedrich A ( Author ) Hardcover Mar- 1987 Hardcover Mar- 12- 1987
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Friedrich was born on November 9, 1828 in Bethau bei Torgau, Saxony, the son of Georg Wilhelm and Hedwig Klothilde (Lange) Sorge.
His early education received from his father, a clergyman, was supplemented by instruction at the Franckeschen Stiftungen at Halle.
In 1848 Sorge took part in the revolutionary activities at Torgau and Baden, and crossed the Swiss border with the revolutionary army. With others he was interned at Freiburg, but in September was released and went to Geneva, where he supported himself by teaching music.
He was forced to leave Geneva in the summer of 1851 and joined his brother at Liege, where he worked in a carpenter shop and taught German in a private school, being continually under police surveillance. In March 1852 he was expelled from Belgium, and, exiled from Germany because of a death sentence imposed by a military tribunal at Torgau, he went to London.
While suffering from an attack of the cholera, he took ship supposedly for Australia, but found himself instead landed in New York City on June 21, 1852. Here he eventually established a reputation as a musician and music teacher.
After the removal of the International headquarters to New York City, he was persuaded to undertake the office of general secretary.
In July 1876, Sorge and Otto Weydemeyer represented the North American Federation of the International Working-Men's Association, at a convention held in Philadelphia for the purpose of unifying the American labor and socialist movements. This meeting resulted in ultimate adherence to the Socialist Labor Party, with which Sorge had little to do.
The following year with J. P. McDonnell, he was instrumental in organizing the textile workers of New Jersey. At that time he was living in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1891 Samuel Gompers requested Sorge to make for European publication a fair statement of the conditions under which the American Federation of Labor was being attacked by the American Socialists, and from 1891 to 1895 he contributed a series of articles in German to the Neue Zeit (Stuttgart) on the labor movement in the United States.
He was also the author of many propaganda pamphlets, one of which, Socialism and the Worker, was reprinted in 1910 in London. Following the Philadelphia meeting, he gradually withdrew from public connection with the Socialist movement, owing to the development of tendencies with which he was not in sympathy.
In 1877 he moved temporarily to Rochester, New York, later returning to Hoboken, New Jersey, where he resided until he died.
Friedrich Adolph Sorge organized the International Labor Union of Hoboken in 1883. From 1869 to 1876, he was not only the most active and influential, but also the clearest exponent of the German-American proletariat. Besides, at The Hague he became more intimately acquainted with Marx and Engels, and until his death was the authoritative representative of Marx in America.
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Sorge associated with the radical anti-slavery wing of the Republican party during the Civil War; was secretary of the Secularists, a freethinker group, in 1868; joined in the political activity of the Soziale Partei in 1868; and finally, in 1869, became a member of Section 1 of the International Working-Men's Association.
Friedrich Sorge was keenly interested in bringing about a national organization of the labor union movement.
He was a member of the German Workers Educational Society. In 1858 he joined the Communist Club organized by Albert Komp in New York, and in 1868 was a member of the executive committee of the Union for German Freedom and Unity, organized to support the republican movement in Germany.
Sorge was a tall, stout man with a bullet-shaped head, fullbearded, the moustache not large enough to cover a hare lip. He was overbearing and dictatorial, often quarreling bitterly with his associates and his family.
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According to Edward Aveling, Sorge was "one who was, perhaps, of all men the closest intimate in the later years of both Marx and Engels. " Susan Perlman called him "the father of modern socialism in America. "
Shortly after coming to the United States he was married to a young German girl. They had a son and a daughter.