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Gustav Mayer married Flora Wolff (1882–1962) on 26 October 1905, which afforded him a degree of financial independence and enabled him to resign from his staff job with the newspaper. He embarked on a career that initially combined work as a private tutor with freelance journalism, but he soon turned
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189:. His upbringing combined traditional Jewish values and beliefs with a keen appreciation of German intellectual developments more generally. While growing up he acquired a deep knowledge of the German classics which would underpin his subsequent work. He studied
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in 1939 the family was evacuated to the countryside where there were no research libraries, and Mayer was reduced to writing a memoir. By this time the tragedy of the slaughter of friends and relatives through the unfolding
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was compounded for the Mayers by the suicide, early in 1941, of their son Peter. Their younger son, settled in
England, abandoning his first name Ulrich and becoming known as Philip Mayer, obtaining a doctorate from
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entitlements which in the end proved irrelevant because of a ban on transferring pensions abroad. He was further impoverished through the application by German tax authorities of the country's
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Bd. 1: Friedrich Engels in seiner FrĂĽhzeit. Bd. 2: Engels und der
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took over the government of
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to full-time scholarship, devoting himself to the study of the German Labour
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