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Vicissitudes of the House of Marxp Interview with Anja Kruke How did Marx live in Trier his hometown How important was that Rhineland city for the development of his ideas How does the museum erected in his honor in the house where he was born function today What happened to that house during the first decades of the th century and how was it recovered by the German Social Democratic Party after World War II Historian Anja Kruke director of the Social Democracy Archive of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation reviews the past and present of this house but also aspects of Marxs own life. You are the director of the Archive of Social Democracy and are therefore also responsible for the Karl Marx House in Trier.
That house where Karl Marx was born is today a museum and historical archive. of Trier have an influence Russia Mobile Number List the ideas that Marx would later express Can we think of Marx from his life in that city Marxs story in Trier is extremely important in his political and intellectual biography. As we know Marx the third child of the marriage between Heinrich and Henriette Marx was born in that city on May the same year in which his family had moved to the house on Brckengasse street. His father Heinrich a man of liberal and secular ideas was the son of a Trier rabbi and had problems practicing his profession the law due to a series of changes that occurred in the city after the defeat of the Napoleonic occupation.
When the Napoleonic regime was defeated on January and Trier became part of the Kingdom of Prussia Jewish citizens lost many rights they had enjoyed under French occupation. And one of them was to practice law. To overcome this difficulty Heinrich Marx converted to Lutheranism a fact that tells us something very particular it was among other things a form of dissidence against the elites of Trier since the city was strictly speaking mostly Catholic. Heinrich was however able to become an important lawyer and was able to establish relationships with people from those same elites.