Hermann Kranold

Hermann Kuno Julius Kranold (also Hermann Kranold-Steinhaus) (1888, Hannover - 1942, Talladega, Alabama) was a German political writer active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

In the German Revolution

Following the German Revolution, Kranold worked with Otto Neurath and Wolfgang Schumann on the Programm Kranold-Neurath-Schumann in Saxony. All three subsequently went to Bavaria, where Neurath was appointed President of the Central Economic Administration for the Bavarian Soviet Republic.[1]

During the Weimar Republic

Kranold was elected to the Silesian provincial parliament to represent Sprottau District from 1925-32.[2]

Exile in the USA

In 1933 he was arrested on the day of the Reichstag fire. However his uncle, Max Planck, was able to arrange his release and exile. After a short period in London, he found a job at Talladega College, Alabama. He received financial help from the American Friends Service Committee for the travel costs for him and his family who arrived in the US in 1936.[3] Here he did work on the economic situation of African Americans in Alabama and elsewhere.[4]

Family life

He married "Red Sophie" Steinhaus, an art historian and revolutionary. They had a daughter, Johanna Kranold who was born in Sprottau, Silesia, on October 30, 1927.{[3] Both he and his wife died of heart disease in 1942.[3]

Works

References

  1. Cartwright, Nancy; Cat, Jordi; Fleck, Lola; Uebel, Thomas (2008). Otto Neurath Philosophy Between Science and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr. ISBN 0521041112.
  2. Rademacher, Michael. "Landkreis Sprottau". erwaltungsgeschichte.de. Michael Rademacher. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Johanna Kranold Stein". Ithaca Journal. Legacy.com. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  4. Dubois, W. E. B. "Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Talladega College". Digital Commonwealth. Massachusetts Online. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
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