Carl Daenzer

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Carl Daenzer
Editorial building of the Western Post Office in St. Louis (1874)

Carl Daenzer , originally Carl / Karl Ludwig August Dänzer (born July 17, 1820 in Odenheim , † September 23, 1906 in Neckarsulm ) was a German-American journalist and publicist.

Life

Carl Dänzer was a son of the mayor of Odenheim. He studied law at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and from November 1840 at the University of Heidelberg . During his studies he became a member of the Euthymia Freiburg fraternity in 1841 and was a co-founder of the Walhalla Heidelberg fraternity in 1843 . In 1848 he took part in the Baden Revolution and became a member of the Baden Constituent Assembly of 1849 . Before the advancing Prussian troops he fled to Switzerland . When he was expelled in 1852 for political activity, he emigrated to the USA like many Forty-Eighters .

In St. Louis he got a job from the writer Heinrich Börnstein as editor of the German-language newspaper Anzeiger des Westens . In 1857 he quit because of differences of opinion with Börnstein and founded his own newspaper, the Westliche Post , with the support of friends . It quickly developed into serious competition for the scoreboard . In 1860, Dänzer left the paper and the USA for health reasons and returned temporarily to Germany.

In 1862 he came back to St. Louis. In the meantime, Börnstein's gazette had arrived. Dänzer founded the Neue Anzeiger des Westens , which after a while was called just Anzeiger des Westens again .

In 1870 he managed to raise over one million US dollars for the treatment of wounded German soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War . In the same year he released a swarm of 20 tree sparrows imported from Germany in St. Louis, from which a population that can still be identified today developed. In 1885, President Grover Cleveland offered him the opportunity to become US ambassador to Switzerland, which Danzer refused.

On June 1, 1898, the Anzeiger and the Westliche Post merged, and Dänzer, like Emil Preetorius , the editor-in-chief of the Westliche Post , withdrew from the business. He spent his twilight years in Germany, where he died in Neckarsulm in 1906.

In an obituary, the New York Times named him the Nestor of the German American press in the United States .

monument

The Naked Truth

The German-American population (German-American Alliance) in St. Louis, built in 1914 in memory of Daenzer, Carl Schurz and Emil Preetorius that of Wilhelm wall cutter designed monument with the emblematic figure "The Naked Truth" ( The Ugly Truth ).

The German-language part of the bilingual dedication inscription reads:

AS A GERMAN AMERICAN AND LEADER OF YOUR COUNTRY PEOPLE IN PUBLIC LIFE, YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE LIGHTHOUS GOAL IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES TO SERVE YOUR ADOPTIVE FATHERLANDS FAITHFULLY. INDEPENDENT CHARACTERS FOR EVERYTHING LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL: THEY ARGENTED TO BRING THE PRECIOUS GOODS OF GERMANIA CULTURE AND PUT THEM INTO COLUMBIAS 'LAP TO BLESS ALL FUTURE GENDERLY.
IN ENDLESS RECOGNITION,

YOUR GRATEFUL CITIZENS.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 218-219.
  • Georg Hertweck: Carl August Dänzer. In: Working group of full-time archivists in the Baden-Württemberg City Council (ed.): Revolution in the southwest. Sites of the democracy movement 1848/49 in Baden-Württemberg. Karlsruhe 1998, pp. 459-460.
  • Howard Louis Conard: Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri . tape 4 , 1901, pp. 573-574 ( online ).
  • J. Thomas Scharf: History of St. Louis ... Volume I . Louis H. Everts & Co., Philadelphia 1883, p. 941-3 .
  • Historical Society of Berlin: Annual reports of historical science . tape 29 , no. 1 , 1908, p. 115 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Carl Daenzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The register of the University of Heidelberg. Volume 5, Heidelberg: Winter 1904, p. 656, No. 331.
  2. ↑ The Eurasian Tree Sparrow ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on mdc.mo.gov  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mdc.mo.gov
  3. ^ Obituary In: The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Daenzer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dänzer, Karl Ludwig August; Danzer, Carl Ludwig August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Odenheim
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1906
Place of death Neckarsulm