ABSTRACT
I. Wilhelm Wolffl Karl Marx dedicated the first volume of Das Kapitai "to the memory of my very dear friend Wilhelm Wolff, bold and faithful champion of the proletarian cause". Jenny Marx recalled her first meeting with "our dear Wilhelm Wolff" in Brussels in 1846 and declared that this was the beginning of "a close bond of friendship which ended only with the death of our dear Lupus in May 1864".2 Engels wrote that when Wolff died "Marx and I mourned our most trusted companion while the revolutionary cause in Germany lost a valued fighter who could never be replaced."3
