Johanna Greie

Johanna Greie (1864–1911), also known as Johanna Greie-Cramer, was a German-American writer, socialist, and reformer.

Biography Born in Dresden on January 6, 1864 to middle-class parents, her formal education ended after primary school. She met and married Emile Greie, a lathe-turner devoted to the free-thought and Social Democratic movements.

A friend of her husband's, the writer , discovered her literary ability and urged her to write for his paper, the Neue Magdeburger Tageblatt, where she worked for some years. In 1889 she was elected to the Committee on Credentials of the Socialist Labor Party of America.

Her biography is sketched out in the New Yorker Volkszeitung, Feb 26, 1911.

Legacy

During her lecture circuit on the subject of the Haymarket affair, Greie met Emma Goldman, who was deeply affected by her lecture in Rochester