Illustrierte Kultur- Und Sittengeschichte Des Proletariats : Bd. 1 / Otto Rühle / Ruhle. Mit E. Vorw. Von A. Lunatscharki U. 492 Illustrationen., Ausgewahlt Und Beschriftet Von Fritz Schiff. (Erster Band)

Berlin De: Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 590 Pp. Blue Cloth Lettered In White. First Printing Of First Book (1930). Worn, Completely Frayed Along Rear Spine Edge (Spine Detached Along That Edge). Ownership Signature Of American Social Artist William Gropper. Karl Heinrich Otto Rühle (1874 -1943) Was A German Social Democratic, Later Communist, Politician And Writer . Between 1907 And 1913 Rühle Was A Traveling Teacher On The Central Education Committee Of The Spd , And From 1912 To 1918 A Member Of The Reichstag . On March 20, 1915, He And Karl Liebknecht , Who Had Already Voted That Way In The Previous Vote, Were The Only Mps To Vote Against The Approval Of The War Credits . In 1916 - During The First World War - Rühle Took Part In The Formation Of The Spartakusbund And In December 1918 - After The End Of The War - In The Founding Of The Kpd . After His Expulsion From The Communist Party In October 1919 Rühle Was Among The Founders Of The Kapd . Rühle Was Expelled From This Party In October 1920. Between 1921 And 1925 He Was A Member Of The Aaue . Otto Rühle Broke Away From The Councilor Communist Direction Of The German Labor Movement Around 1925 And Increasingly Approached Anarchism And Adler's Individual Psychology. From 1925 Until The End Of The Weimar Republic , Rühle Worked As An Educational Advisor For The Community Of Proletarian Freethinkers (Gpf) And Devoted Himself Primarily To Cultural-Historical Studies. His Main Focus Was School And Education Policy. In His Book The Soul Of The Proletarian Child (1925) He Developed An Early Habitus Theory From Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology With The Help Of The Concept Of Proletarian Protest Masculinity. Along With Manès Sperber And Wilhelm Reich, He Was One Of Those Leftists Who Sought A Connection Between Marxism And Psychology At An Early Stage . In The Summer Of 1932, Rühle Left Germany With His Second Wife, The Jewish Individual Psychologist And Writer . In February 1933 A Sturmabteilung Storm Troop Looted And Destroyed Rühle's House In Dresden. On The Mediation Of His Son-In-Law, Rühle Worked From 1935 As A Consultant At The Mexican Ministry Of Education. Alice Rühle-Gerstel Followed Him To Mexico In 1936 . In His Role As An Educational Advisor, He Was Also In Contact With Leo Regener And Hans Löhr , For Whom He - Albeit Unsuccessfully - Tried To Get Jobs In The Mexican School Service. From April 1937 Rühle Worked In A Commission That Examined The Allegations Made Against Leon Trotsky In The Moscow Show Trial . Between 1939 And 1943 He Earned His Living Doing Odd Jobs Such As Postcard Drawings Under The Pseudonym Carlos Timoneros. Rühle Died Of Heart Failure On June 24, 1943 At The Age Of 68. Alice Rühle-Gerstel Committed Suicide On The Same Day.