Johann Phillipp Becker (20 March 1809 – 9 December 1886) was a German

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and military officer who participated in the democratic movement in Germany and

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in the 1830s and 1840s. In

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during the 1848-1849 Baden-Palatinate revolution, Becker commanded the Baden Peoples Militia. In the 1860s he became a prominent figure in the First Workers International, attending all its congresses.A Letter from Friedrich Engels to Johann Philipp Becker in Geneva, 1 July 1879
/ref> He was the editor of the socialist magazine Der Vorbote. Becker was one of the founders of

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(1869). Becker became a close friend and an associate of

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and Frederick Engels. He died in 1886.

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* Archive o
Johann Philipp Becker Papers
at the

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Frederick Engels on Johann Philipp Becker
1809 births 1886 deaths German socialists German revolutionaries {{Germany-activist-stub