Berthold Feistel

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Berthold Feistel (born May 13, 1834 in Neumarkt / Silesia , † February 21, 1892 in Oderberg ) was a German printer and newspaper publisher.

Life

Berthold Feistel, son of the master turner Ernst Feistel (1808–1838), grew up after the early death of his father with his mother in the small town of Neumarkt in Lower Silesia and completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter.

He played a leading role in the Berlin printing movement since 1862. The founding meeting of the Berlin Book Printers Association elected him as its deputy chairman. The Leipzig printers' strike in April 1865 was supported by the Berlin association. On April 15, 1865, Feistel wrote a letter to Karl Marx on behalf of the association , thereby triggering an international aid campaign for the strike.

From 1866 to 1867 Feistel was the first chairman of the Association of German Book Printers . In 1867 he was elected to the first ordinary Reichstag of the North German Confederation as a worker candidate for all Berlin constituencies, but received only 69 votes in all of Berlin. His electoral defeat and the subsequent criticism of the printing association led to his resignation from all offices in 1867. Feistel went into business for himself and opened a book printing company in the small town of Angermünde in the Uckermark region . Until 1875 he published the Uckermärkische Zeitung three times a week . The modern regional newspaper based on the Berlin model had an extensive news section, published leading articles with a liberal attitude and provided extensive information on local politics. Since Feistel's local political commitment in Angermünde was denied local support, he relocated his business to Oderberg in 1876. Here he continued to run the Oderberger Zeitung, founded in 1874 (discontinued in 1944) as a local newspaper tailored to local conditions. In Oderberg, Feistel, as chairman of the district association and city councilor, also found the desired local political sphere of activity.

Feistel married Anna Schenk (1845–1934) on October 24, 1868, the daughter of the Angermünder merchant and master dyer Carl Julius Schenk. The marriage had seven children. After Feistel's death, the printing and publishing house was passed on to his son Johannes (1874–1945). The B. Feistel company existed until 1945.

literature

  • Peter Franke: Feistel, Berthold. In: Friedrich Beck (Hrsg.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 9783935035392 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Peter Franke: From socialist typesetter to liberal newspaper publisher: The unusual career of Berthold Feistel in the Uckermark province. in: Böning, Holger and Arnulf Kutsch and Rudolf Stöber (Hrsg.): Yearbook for communication history . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISSN  1438-4485 .
  2. ↑ Heinz Haberdank (et al. Hrsg.): History of the revolutionary Berlin workers' movement Volume 1. Dietz, Berlin 1987. P. 62
personal data
SURNAME Feistel, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Neumarkt / Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1892
Place of death Oderberg