Adam Scharrer

Adam Scharrer (13 July, 1889, Kleinschwarzenlohe – 2 March, 1948, Schwerin) was a German writer.

Stamp of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik commemorating Adam Scharrer

He was born to Johann Scharrer and Margareta Haas.[1]

He joined the Communist Workers' Party of Germany in 1920.[2]

He remained active in the party until 1933.[3] However with the Nazi seizure of power he went was a wanted man and went underground in Berlin before fleeing to Czechoslovakia. Here, in 1934, he received an invitation from the Union of Writers of the USSR to come to the Soviet Union. Here he joined a writers' colony in Moscow. Although he spent a short time in the Ukraine but returned to Moscow. During this period he got to know Oskar Maria Graf.[4]

Works
gollark: There's no real disadvantage to keeping additional knowledge around, and you cannot know in advance when a random fact might be useful.
gollark: The Ancient Greeks apparently went around calculating the Earth's size from some trigonometry and measurements of sun position.
gollark: A good example is apparently boats becoming more visible as they come into shore.
gollark: The flat earth thing requires a lot more bizarre special-casey explanations which don't fit with anything else to work.
gollark: Catgirl transformation gas deployment is highly unethical.

References
  1. "Adam Scharrer". www.myheritage.com. MyHeritage Ltd. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  2. "Heimat-Geschichtsverein". www.heimat-geschichtsverein.de. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  3. "Scharrer, Adam - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  4. Bourrinet, Phillippe (1921). Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands Ausserordentlicher Öffentlicher Parteitag der K.A.P.D (annotated) (PDF).
  5. (PDF) https://www.aaap.be/Pdf/KAPD-Congresses/KAPD-Congress-0-Transcription.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Sources
  • Féral, T. (2002): Adam Scharrer: Ecrivain antifasciste et militant paysan, Paris: Harmattan.
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