Max Beer

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Max Beer
Born	August 10, 1864 Tarnobrzeg
Died	April 30, 1943 London
Occupation	Marxist historian

Max Beer (1864–1943) was an Austrian-German Marxist historian. Beer was born in Austria-Hungary and came to Germany in 1889 where he became editor of a Socialist paper. He moved to Great Britain in 1894 and lived there for many years. Beer wrote books on the history of the socialist movement and later moved to the Soviet Union where he worked at the Marx-Engels-Institute in Moscow. Between 1929 and 1933, Beer was active in the German Communist Party where he lived and worked in Frankfurt am Main. When the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933, Beer fled to London where he later died.