Bruno Schönlank (journalist)

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Bruno Schönlank

Bruno Schönlank , also Schoenlank (born May 16, 1859 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † October 30, 1901 in Leipzig ) was a social democratic German politician and journalist .

Life

First edition of the Leipziger Volkszeitung on October 1, 1894.

Schönlank came from a Jewish family. The father was a cantor and teacher at a Jewish school.

Bruno Franz Georg Paul Kurt Schönlank studied economics , history and philosophy at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin from 1878 . He became active in the Corps Teutonia Berlin . Schmisse attest to the participation in numerous lengths . When he was inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . At Easter 1882 he came to the Friedrichs University . On May 7, 1882, he was reciprocated in the Corps Teutonia Halle . As a senior , he represented the Halle Seniors 'Convent at the following congress of the Kösener Seniors' Convents Association . There, with several of his brothers Berlin Corp to eight months in disrepute plugged, he was at Teutonia Hall in perpetuum dimittiert . At Teutonia Halle, this was the reason why Jews were no longer accepted in the future and the relationship with Teutonia Berlin broke. Schönlank also lost the ribbon at Teutonia Berlin . In 1882 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . He dedicated his doctoral thesis to Julius von Kirchmann . As a student he converted to Protestantism . Politically, he initially participated in the bourgeois movement for bimetallism . After graduation, he worked briefly as a private tutor in high aristocratic circles.

Time of the socialist law

Scientifically gifted, Schönlank was supported by Gustav Schmoller . He gave up an academic career when he turned to social democracy, which was prohibited by the Socialist Law . From 1883 he worked as a journalist for the social democratic movement, including for the Süddeutsche Post, which appeared in Munich until it was banned in 1884 , and then for the Nürnberger Fränkische Tagespost . There were also numerous, mostly soon forbidden, leaves. In the years 1889 and 1890 he published the workers' chronicle. He was imprisoned for eighteen months between 1885 and 1887 for press violations.

In Bavaria he also worked as a social democratic meeting speaker. In 1888 he ran in vain for a seat in the Reichstag in the Ansbach-Schwabach constituency. After the failure of this candidacy, he temporarily withdrew from political life and devoted himself to scientific studies.

Reformer of the social democratic press

After the end of the socialist legislation from 1890 onwards, official social democratic party newspapers could appear again, Schönlank was editor of the Sozialpolitisches Centralblatt from 1890 to 1892 . In 1892 he became deputy editor-in-chief Wilhelm Liebknecht at Vorwärts, which had recently been re-established . Schönlank tried to modernize the paper, but encountered Liebknecht resistance. The collaboration was ended after just one year. From October 1894 until his death, Schönlank was editor-in-chief of the Leipziger Volkszeitung . He built the paper into a leading social democratic daily until his death. The newspaper had a formative influence on the rapidly growing social democratic press landscape. Schönlank is therefore considered a reformer of the social democratic party press. Instead of a pure organ of agitation, there was a modern daily newspaper with good correspondents. In terms of content, economic and socio-political issues were important, but Schönlank did not neglect the feature section either . He engaged Edgar Steiger as a theater critic. When this advocate of naturalism came up against sharp criticism at the party congress, he was defended by Schönlank. He promoted young talents such as Friedrich Stampfer and Israel Helpland .

politics

From 1893 to 1901 Schönlank was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Breslau 7 (western part of the city of Breslau). In the SPD, he was a member of the Agricultural Commission from 1894, which tried in vain to develop an agricultural policy program in the course of the reformism dispute. On the question of electoral law in the Kingdom of Saxony , he pleaded in 1896 in the Saxon state organization of the party to resign from the parliament. He was supported in this by the Reich leadership of the party. The majority of the Saxon party rejected this.

author

In addition to his daily political contributions, Schönlank also wrote numerous political, social and historical publications, including social struggles 300 years ago , worked for the journal Die Neue Zeit and the concise dictionary of political science and wrote for scientific publications.

One of his sons was Bruno Schönlank junior , who was also a social democratic editor and writer and in 1918 was part of the editorial team of the USPD newspaper Die Freiheit .

Works

  • Hartley and Priestley . The founders of associationism in England . Dissertation Halle 1882 digitized
  • The Austrian Factory Act. A study with marginal glosses . Pollner, Munich 1885
  • On the criticism of Manchesterism . The new time. Review of intellectual and public life. 3 Vol. (1885), Issue 9, pp. 421-426 Digitized
  • The Fürth mercury mirror evidence and their workers: economic history studies. I. II . The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, 5 vol. (1887), issue 4, pp. 145–164 digitized
  • The Fürth mercury mirror evidence and their workers: economic history studies. II . The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, 5th year (1887), issue 5, pp. 204-219 digitized
  • The Fürth mercury mirror evidence and their workers: economic history studies. III . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life . 5 Jg. (1887), Issue 6, pp. 256-266 digitized
  • The syphilis and social conditions . The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, 5 vol. (1887), issue 12, pp. 562-574 digitized
  • Catholicism and Capitalism . The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, 6 vol. (1888), issue 2, pp. 78–88 digitized
  • The mercury mirror slips and their workers. Economic history studies . JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1888
  • On the situation of the workers employed in the linen production and the ready-made industry in Germany . The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, 6th year (1888), issue 3, pp. 116–128 digitized
  • To the Prussian savings bank statistics . The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, 7th year (1889), issue 9, pp. 400–410 digitized
  • The Iliad and Gentilism . The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, 8th year (1890), issue 1, pp. 39–43 digitized
  • On the psychology of the petty bourgeoisie . The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, 8th year (1890), issue 3, pp. 117–124 digitized
  • On the psychology of the petty bourgeoisie. II. Petty bourgeoisie and politics . The new time. Revue of intellectual and public life, 8th year (1890), issue 4, pp. 163–169 digitized
  • Karl Kautsky , Bruno Schönlank: Principles and demands of social democracy. Explanations of the Erfurt program . Verlag Vorwärts, Berlin 1892 digitized ; 4th edition Berlin 1907 Digitized and full text in the German Text Archive
  • Social struggles three hundred years ago. Old Nuremberg studies . Duncker & Humblot , Leipzig 1894 digitized

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Teutonia Corps in Halle a. S. A commemorative publication for the 60th anniversary of the Foundation Festival in 1913 , on behalf of the Corps with the assistance of Dr. Ernst Biesalski compiled by Dr. Karl Rembert. Hall a. S., Verlag des Korps Teutonia 1913.
  2. ↑ He is not listed in the Kösener corps lists from 1910.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: Hartley and Priestley - the founders of associationism in England .
  4. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 70.
  5. ↑ Chronicle of the German Social Democracy 7./8. April 1896 .
  6. ↑ Review: The New Time . 3 Vol. (1885), Issue 2, pp. 93-94
  7. ↑ Review in: Die neue Zeit . 6 Vol. (1888), Issue 6, pp. 281-282
  8. ↑ Review: Franz Eulenburg. In: Journal for Social and Economic History . 4 1896
personal data
SURNAME Schönlank, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoenlank, Bruno; Schönlank, Bruno Franz Georg Paul Kurt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1901
Place of death Leipzig