Theodor Hartwig a němečtí proletářští volnomyšlenkáři v ČSR v soukolí levicových politických proudů
Theodor Hartwig and German Proletarian Freethinkers in Czechoslovakia as the Cog in the Wheel of the Leftist Political Movements

Summary/Abstract: The object of the article is to present Theodor Hartwig (born Theodor Herzl, Vienna 1872 – Brno 1958) and primarily his posts as an influential player of in the international and Czechoslovak proletarian freethinking movement during the interwar period. After the First World War, Hartwig was engaged in the Cosmopolitan Society (Kosmpolitní společnost) and most importantly in the Society of Proletarian Freethinkers in Czechoslovakia (Svaz proletářských volnomyšlenkářů v Československu) in Brno which he chaired beginning in 1923. He made it to the top of the newly emerged International of Proletarian Freethinkers (Internacionála proletářských volnomyšlenkářů) in 1925, holding the anti-communist, non-revolutionary position, until the International’s fragmentation into the reform and revolution wings in 1930. The article further summarises Hartwig’s controversial position towards the Social Democratic Party of Austria and German Social Democratic Workers’ Party in the Czechoslovak Republic during the 1920s and 1930s.

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