The Westphalian steamboat

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The Westphälische Dampfboot emerged from the Weserdampfboot was a left-democratic to early socialist weekly in the German Vormärz .

The Westphalian steamboat. Edition March 1846

In January 1844 the magazine Weserdampfboot appeared for the first time . It was initially edited by A. Osterwald. At first the paper appeared twice a week. Since November 1844 it became a monthly with a greatly expanded scope. The sheet first appeared in Lemgo and later in Minden , it was edited in Rinteln ( Kurhessen ). The distribution of production should undermine the state license requirement.

Beyond the province of Westphalia , it gained importance as a left-democratic newspaper. One of the most productive authors was Otto Lüning . He published his socialist views in the Weser steamboat in November 1844. The main financier was the linen dealer Rudolf Rempel from Bielefeld .

Because of its political stance, the paper was banned by the Hessian and Prussian governments in December 1844. The successor organ appeared under the title Das Westfälische Dampfboot first in the Julius Helmich publishing house in Bielefeld and from 1847 in the Wilhelm Crüwell publishing house in Paderborn . The editing was taken over by Otto Lüning, who was also the editor from 1845 to 1848.

The main focus was on the situation of the lower classes, socialist theories and general political questions. From the middle of 1846 in particular, the socialist orientation of the magazine increased.

Last but not least, Joseph Weydemeyer contributed to this. Authors include Friedrich Engels , Moses Hess , Karl Marx , Friedrich Schnake , Emil Weller , Ferdinand Wolff and Wilhelm Wolff .

After the March Revolution , the steamboat reappeared twice a week. Since the number of subscribers was insufficient to cover the costs, the newspaper was discontinued in May 1848. The Westphalian friend of the people continued the tradition of the steam boat. Both magazines were printed in the Bielefeld printing company JD Küster .

Today the Westfälisches Dampfboot publishing house continues the tradition of the paper.

Emphasis

  • The Westphalian steamboat. A monthly, red. by Otto Lüning. Verlag Helmich (1845 and 1846), Verlag Crüwell (1847 and 1848), Bielefeld, Paderborn, vol. 1, 1845, to vol. 4, 2, 1848. With newly created table of contents . 5 vols., Auvermann, Glashütten im Taunus 1972 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Herbert Brims: "The Westphalian steamboat". A political magazine of "true" socialism in Germany . (Dissertation. University of Augsburg, 1983).
  • Herwig Förder: Marx and Engels on the eve of the revolution . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1960
  • Kurt Koszyk : The “steam boat” and the Rhedaer Kreis. The first political magazine in Westphalia . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1958 ( Dortmund contributions to newspaper research 2)
  • Arno Klönne : "Everything for the people, everything through the people!" The early socialists around the "Westphalian steam boat" 1845–1848 . In: Elisabeth Harder-Gersdorff, Arno Klönne, Karl-Theodor Stiller (eds.): Contributions to the history of the Bielefeld workers' movement. AJZ Druck u. Verlag, Bielefeld 1981, pp. 21-38
  • Gundi Frick-Lemmer: The "Westphalian Steamboat". A radical democratic newspaper in pre-March Westphalia . Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, Westphalia Regional Image Office, Münster 1986
  • Kurt Koszyk: The press in Westphalia . In: Wilfried Reininghaus, Horst Conrad (Hrsg.): For freedom and law. Westphalia and Lippe in the revolution of 1848/49 . Münster 1999, p. 100, 102 and p. 159 f. (Exhibition).
  • Gero Wierichs: Too progressive for the province? Otto Lüning, the “Rhedaer Kreis” and the “Westphälische Dampfboot” . In: Horst Walter Blanke (Ed.): "Every upheaval bears the character of its time". Ostwestfalen-Lippe 1848/49. Regional historical studies on the occasion of the exhibition Revolution - Communication - Public in the Historical Museum Bielefeld, May 9 to August 15, 1999. Texts and documents . Historisches Museum, Bielefeld 1999, pp. 93–120 ( Writings of the Historical Museums of the City of Bielefeld 14)
  • Alfred Wesselmann : The Westphalian steam boat. Four sketches and register of persons. Aisthesis Verlag , Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89528-447-5 .
  • Alfred Wesselmann: Otto Lüning, the Westphalian steam boat and the socially critical tendencies of contemporary painting . In: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Issue I / 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation of the history of the steam boat in the Otto Lüning entry in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors