Paul Grottkau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Grottkau

American political activist

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1846

Place of Birth: Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany

Date of Death: 03-Jun-1898

Profession: editor, journalist, trade unionist

Nationality: United States, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Paul Grottkau (1846–1898) was a German-American socialist political activist and newspaper publisher.
Grottkau is best remembered as an editor alongside Haymarket affair victim August Spies of the Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeitung, one of the leading American radical newspapers of the decade of the 1880s.
Later moving to Milwaukee, Grottkau became one of the leading luminaries of the socialist movement in Wisconsin.