Alfred Oehlke

Alfred Oehlke (born November 19, 1862 in Schlobitten , East Prussia , † April 27, 1932 in Breslau ) was a German journalist and newspaper publisher .

Life

Oehlke studied history, German studies and philosophy in Berlin from 1881 and in Königsberg from 1888 . In the course of his studies he got caught up in the conflict between the liberal and anti-Semitic tendencies within the German student body . Oehlke took a stand on the side of the liberals. In response to his political commitment, he was challenged to a duel with pistols. Oehlke triumphed and mortally wounded his challenger, whereupon he had to serve a prison sentence. After his imprisonment, he met Hermann Settegast , who accepted him into Freemasonry .

He was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD and in 1891 editor of a Hamburg newspaper. In 1893 he came to the Breslauer Zeitung , where he took over the main editorial management in 1896 and became a publisher in 1914 .

In 1901 Oehlke became lodge master of the Breslau lodge Settegast for German Loyalty . In a lodge speech, Oehlke defined that Freemasonry is a "bond of humanity free from the shackles of denominationalism ."

Works

On Tannhäuser's life and poems , 1890
Hermann Settegast. A biographical study , 2nd ed. 1908
One hundred years of the Breslauer Zeitung , 1920
Hermann Settegast. His life, will and work . A biographical study. Alfred Unger Berlin publisher 1904 (with picture).

literature

Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1349.
Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner and Dieter A. Binder : Internationales Freemaurerlexikon . Revised and expanded new edition of the 1932 edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3

Individual evidence

↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon . Revised and expanded new edition of the 1932 edition, Munich 2003, 951 pages, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3
↑ August Wolfstieg: Christianity, Humanity and Freemasonry . New edition Verlag Georg Stilke, original from 1900 (page 51), 23 pages
^ Till van Rahden: Jews and other Breslauer: the relations between Jews, Protestants and Catholics in a German city from 1860 to 1925 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen (2000) (p. 124 f.)

Web links

Literature by and about Alfred Oehlke in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Oehlke, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 19, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schlobitten
DATE OF DEATH	April 27, 1932
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon . Revised and expanded new edition of the 1932 edition, Munich 2003, 951 pages, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3

[2] August Wolfstieg: Christianity, Humanity and Freemasonry . New edition Verlag Georg Stilke, original from 1900 (page 51), 23 pages

[3] Till van Rahden: Jews and other Breslauer: the relations between Jews, Protestants and Catholics in a German city from 1860 to 1925 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen (2000) (p. 124 f.)