Karl Marx Year (German: Karl-Marx-Jahr) was a series of anniversaries of Karl Marx commemorated by East Germany in 1953, 1968, and 1983.[1] The most prominent was in 1953, for the 70th anniversary of Marx's death, and included the renaming of Chemnitz as Karl-Marx Stadt[2] and of Leipzig University as Karl Marx University, the founding of the Order of Karl Marx, and the initiation of the Marx-Engels-Werke project of Marx and Engels' works. The 1968 commemoration marked the 150th anniversary of his birth, and 1983 the 100th anniversary of his death.
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West Germany also commemorated Marx in anniversary years, with prominent renovations/reopenings of the Karl Marx House in 1968 and 1983. In 2018, Trier launched its own Karl Marx Year for the 200th anniversary of his birth.[3]
References
edit- ^ Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte (in German). Universität Tel Aviv, Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Forschungszentrum für Geschichte. 1990. p. 213.
- ^ Travel Guide, German Democratic Republic. Zeit im Bild Publishing House. 1983. p. 89.
- ^ "Karl-Marx-Jahr 2018". Stadt Trier (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-20.