Wilhelm Weitling
German-American socialist
- Lived
- 1808–1871
- Country
- Germany
Updated September 2026
About Wilhelm Weitling
Wilhelm Christian Weitling was a German tailor, inventor, radical political activist and one of the first theorists of communism. Weitling gained fame in Europe as a social theorist before he immigrated to the United States.
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