Frederick Lessner

Fredrick Christian Eduard Lessner (1825–1910) was a German tailor active in the nineteenth century Communist movement.

[1] In 1856 he emigrated to England where he later became a member of the General Council of the International Workingmen's Association in 1864 as a close supporter of Karl Marx.

During the revisionism dispute within the German Social Democratic Party, he sided with orthodox Marxism and rejected the ideas of Eduard Bernstein.

The party financially supported Lessner, who lived his entire life mainly from his meager income as a tailor.

In the last years of his later he attended several social democratic party conferences or congresses of the Second International as a guest of honour.