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Democratic weekly paper
Democratic weekly paper. No. 1 of January 4, 1868 (headline of the newspaper)
description Organ of the German People's Party and the Association of German Workers' Associations
First edition 1868
attitude 1869
ZDB 531828-2

Democratic weekly paper. Organ of the German People's Party, from December 5, 1868 Democratic Weekly. Organ of the German People's Party and the Association of German Workers' Associations and, from August 14, 1869, Democratic Weekly Journal. Organ of the social-democratic workers' party . The newspaper appeared from January 4, 1868 to September 29, 1869 in 96 issues.

The newspaper was founded by Wilhelm Liebknecht , August Bebel and Otto Freytag . Wilhelm Liebknecht was responsible and paid editor. Carl Hirsch was temporarily co-editor. The newspaper was published every Saturday as a weekly newspaper and from number 35 of August 28, 1869 twice a week (Wednesday and Saturday). Inserts were also printed.

Until number 13 of March 27, 1869, the newspaper was owned by Carl Wilhelm. Vollrath printed and published in Leipzig . After that Friedrich Thiele was the printer and publisher . The print run was around 2000 copies, including around 1400 subscribers.

Democratic weekly paper

Emergence

The Democratic Weekly Journal was founded as a party organ of the German People's Party and was supposed to publish information from the workers' associations at the same time. August Bebel described it as follows in his memoirs: “The Achilles heel of the workers' association was its weak finances. […] Here the General German Workers' Association was superior to us . The situation became even more uncomfortable for us when Schweitzer announced large agitation tours through Saxony and southern Germany [...]. Above all, the defense required money, which we did not have. The "Democratic Weekly", which became an organ of the association from December 1868, also required substantial financial subsidies. We had founded the same with a whole 10 thalers in our pockets, to which there were other small amounts. [...] Mathematically, they were already bankrupt with the first number. But the willingness to sacrifice and enthusiasm for a paper knew hardly any limits. […] For example, Liebknecht, as editor of the “Demokratisches Wochenblatt”, received only 40 thalers a month […]. Hepner was employed in 1869 with 25 thalers a month; I wrote the workers' section in the “Demokratisches Wochenblatt” free of charge, for leading the expedition I received 12 thalers a month, for which I also had to give up the rooms. [...] I have just complained to one of our foreign confidants who came to see me because of our financial difficulties when the postman brought a registered letter. The sender was Dr. Shop village in Zurich […]. He wrote that he was providing me with 3,000 francs from a fund entrusted to him and his friends for administration, the so-called Revolution Fund ”.

From December 1868 the newspaper was the successor organ of the German Workers' Hall. Organ of the Association of German Workers' Associations published by Johann Peter Eichelsdörfer (1829–1889).

Structure of expenses

Each issue begins with a “Political Overview” written by Wilhelm Liebknecht. In addition, many editions contain the rubric “Suburb and Workers 'Affairs”, in which short correspondence from the associations is used to report on the German workers' associations. Articles about the current resolutions of the International Workers' Association were printed regularly . Correspondence from Berlin , London , Vienna and New York can be found in many numbers, even one from China . In many editions, particularly serious arbitrary acts by individual entrepreneurs were described under the heading "White slaves". The editorial team attached great importance to reports on the activities of the emerging trade union movement. There are relatively few book reviews. Advertisements are placed in every issue. They mainly contain advertisements for friendly newspapers and occasionally for individual books. In a few issues there are obituaries. Necrologists even published a whole supplement for Ernest Jones , Theodor Olshausen and for the chairman of the American National Labor Union, William H. Sylvis . In the "Mailbox" section, Liebknecht answered small inquiries from his readers. In a few editions, poems were printed, usually without a statement of the author. Occasionally, calls for help were also printed. So z. B. Isaak Rülf's from the Israelite community of Memel .

content

As can be seen from the newspaper's subtitles, there are three phases of the organizational alignment of the time. Under the title Our Program, Liebknecht wrote in the first edition of the newspaper: “Sticking to the well-established Chemnitz program [...] we will defend democratic principles in all areas of state and social life to the extreme. As far as the two most burning questions of the day, the Germans and the workers question , are concerned , we are striving for a German people's state that unites all the tribes of the great fatherland (including the German-Austrians, of course) under the common banner of freedom, and we are going to war for life and death lead against that pernicious policy whose ultimate goal is the enlargement of Prussia and the reduction of Germany. On the social question we will ruthlessly stand up for the rights of labor and work with all our might for the economic liberation of the working class . ”The program, decided on August 19, 1866, was published in full on July 4, 1868 for the first time in the weekly newspaper. The Democratic Weekly gave Johann Jacoby a chance to speak, or even a miner. The March Revolution was remembered and Liebknecht dealt with the Prussian police advisor Wilhelm Stieber and his recent attempts to smuggle secret agents into the workers' associations. Bebel's most important contribution in this period to the Wochenblatt was his call for the establishment of trade unions and the publication of the "Model Statutes for German Trade Unions" , which implemented the resolutions of the fifth convention of German workers' associations in Nuremberg in September 1868.

Bebel, who was responsible for the suburb and worker affairs section, expanded this section of the newspaper from 1869 onwards. Carl Hirsch dealt extensively with some of the Lassallean dogmas in his four-part article Indirect Taxes and Aftersocialism . With the expansion of the work by Eccarius written in 1850 (“The Tailoring in London or the Struggle of Big and Small Capital”) the editors deepened the economic views of Marx among their readers. The editorial team separated itself more from the Progressive Party . In the Saxon state elections on June 4, 1869, the People's Party abstained because most of the workers were excluded from the right to be elected. Bebel and Liebknecht intensified their dispute with Schweitzer.

On July 17th, the Democratic Weekly newspaper opened with a call for the "general German social-democratic workers' congress" in August 1869 in Eisenach. At the same time, a series “Contra Schweitzer- Hatzfeld ( Mende )” with letters from readers will be continued. On July 31, the newspaper publishes “Program and organizational template for the general German social-democratic congress in Eisenach on August 7, 8 and 9, 1869”. On August 14th, the title page read “The People's State. Organ of the Social-Democratic Workers' Party ”announced from October 1st and the minutes and the program of the Eisenach party congress will be printed in full in subsequent editions . Liebknecht summarized the results: “The Eisenach Congress marks a turning point in the history of the development of the German proletariat. Eight days ago we were a number of social democrats; today we are a social democratic party. […] No pacts, no peace with the enemy. Always ready for reconciliation with the misguided brothers who are still entangled in the web of lies of a shameless and unscrupulous adventurer. Do everyone his duty! "

Known employees

Wilhelm Liebknecht

Emphasis

  • Democratic weekly paper. Organ of the German People's Party and the Association of German Workers' Associations . With an introduction by Heinrich Gemkow and Ursula Hermann. Leipzig 1868 . Unchanged photomechanical reprint of the original edition. Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1969. Digitized
  • Democratic weekly paper. Organ of the German People's Party and the Association of German Workers' Associations. Leipzig 1869 . Unchanged photomechanical reprint of the original edition. Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1969. Digitized

Successor body

Article by Marx and Engels in the Demokratisches Wochenblatt

  • The capital. Critique of the political economy by Karl Marx. First volume. Production process of capital. Otto Meißner publishing house in Hamburg [excerpt from the foreword]. In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 1 of January 4, 1868 and No. 2 of January 11, 1868. Digitized
  • [Friedrich Engels]: “The Capital” by Marx . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 12 of March 21, 1868 and No. 13 of March 28, 1868. Digitized
  • A spotlight on the Irish question (From "Capital" by Karl Marx ). In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 15 of April 11, 1868, No. 16 of April 18, 1868 and No. 17 of April 15, 1868. Digitized
  • [Karl Marx]: That revealed Kossuth . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 16 of April 18, 1868, No. 17 of April 25, 1868 and No. 18 of May 2, 1868. Digitized
  • Karl Marx has attended the General Assembly of the General German Workers' Association, which is now in Hamburg . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 34 Supplement of August 22, 1868. Digitized
  • [Karl Marx]: Fourth Annual Report of the General Council of the International Workers' Association . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 37 Supplement dated September 12, 1868. Digitized
  • [Friedrich Engels]: On the dissolution of the Lassallean workers' association . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 40 of October 3, 1868, digitized
  • [Friedrich Engels]: On the dissolution of the Lassallean workers' association . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 41 of October 10, 1868. Digitized
  • [Karl Marx]: The extraordinary seriousness with which the English and especially the London press deal with the International Workers' Association and its Brussels Congress . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 42 of October 17, 1868. Digitized
  • Trade unions. In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 45 of November 7, 1868. Digitized
  • [Friedrich Engels]: Report on the Knappschaftsvereine of the miners in the coal works of Saxony . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 12 of March 20, 1869. Digitized
  • [Karl Marx]: The Belgian butcheries. To the workers of Europe and the United States . In: No. 21 of May 22, 1869. Digitized
  • [Friedrich Engels]: Karl Marx . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 34 of August 21, 1869 digitized
  • [Karl Marx]: Report of the General Council of the International Workers 'Association to the 4th General Workers' Congress in Basel . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 41 of September 18, 1869; No. 42 of September 22, 1869; Supplement to No. 42 and No. 43 of September 25, 1869. Digitized

Web links

literature

  • Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Ed. U. edit by Georg Eckert . Mouton, The Hague 1963. ( Sources and studies on the history of the German and Austrian labor movement. 5).
  • Heinrich Gemkow: In the struggle to found the party. Unpublished letters to Bebel and Liebknecht, June to August 1869. In: Contributions to the history of the workers' movement. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1969, No. 4, pp. 620-639.
  • Heinrich Gemkow, Ursula Hermann: The “democratic weekly paper” - its role in the preparation of the Eisenacher party 1868/1869. In: Horst Bartel , Ernst Engelberg (ed.): The Great Prussian-militaristic founding of the empire in 1871. Requirements and consequences. Volume 1. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1971, pp. 598-624.
  • Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with German Social Democrats. Part 1. 1862–1878. Ed. U. edit by Georg Eckert. van Gorcum, Assen 1973. ( Sources and studies on the history of the German and Austrian labor movement. New series. 4). ISBN 90-232-0858-7 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Wilhelm Liebknecht. A biography. For one hundred and fiftieth birthday . Gütersloh and Gießen 1976, p. 90 ff.
  • Horst Gebauer: "Democratic weekly paper" and the workers' library system. In: The Librarian. Vol. 42, 1988, No. 2, pp. 70-71.
  • Wolfgang Schröder : Leipzig - the cradle of the German labor movement. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-320-02214-3 , pp. 183-22.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Democratic weekly paper . No. 1 of January 4, 1868.
  2. ↑ Democratic weekly paper . No. 14, April 3, 1869, page 8; Democratic weekly paper. Organ of the German People's Party and the Association of German Workers' Associations. Leipzig 1869 . Unchanged photomechanical reprint of the original edition. Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1969, p. 194.
  3. ↑ Vollrath, Carl Wilhelm . In: Helga Brandt: Biographical sketches of Leipzig worker functionaries. Documentation on the 100th anniversary of the Socialist Law 1878–1890 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 257-259.
  4. ↑ Inge Werchan u. a .: The work of Marx and Engels in the literature of German social democracy (1869–1895). Bibliography . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 492.
  5. ^ "Over 700 subscribers". Liebknecht to Engels January 28, 1868. ( Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , p. 87.)
  6. ↑ Democratic weekly paper . With an introduction by Heinrich Gemkow and Ursula Hermann. Leipzig 1868. SI
  7. ↑ August Bebel: From my life. First part., Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 156–157 (= August Bebel. Selected speeches and writings . Volume 6)
  8. ↑ German Workers' Hall . June 1, 1867 to December 4, 1868. Association Day, Mannheim 1867–1868. (Reprint JHW Dietz Nachf., Bonn 1980.)
  9. ↑ The author was possibly Robert Schweichel, who moved from Leipzig to Berlin in 1868.
  10. ^ Rubric From England . Johann Georg Eccarius to Wilhelm Liebknecht [August 1860] reprinted in: Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with German Social Democrats , pp. 258–259; Democratic weekly paper. Organ of the German People's Party and the Association of German Workers' Associations. Leipzig 1869 . Unchanged photomechanical reprint of the original edition. Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1969, p. 197 Note ***.
  11. ^ Rubric Aus Deutsch-Oesterreich . See also the 14 letters from Heinrich Oberwinder to Wilhelm Liebknecht. They are printed in Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with German Social Democrats , pp. 227–254.
  12. ↑ The contributions are probably from Sigfrid P-Meyer and August Vogt . (Wilhelm Liebknecht: Two Pioneers . In: Die Neue Welt . 1900, No. 17, pp. 131-134. Printed in: Wilhelm Liebknecht. Memories of a soldier of the revolution . Compiled and introduced by Heinrich Gemkow. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, Pp. 309–321.)
  13. ↑ Chinese letters . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 42 of September 22, 1869.
  14. ^ So for Moritz Thilo from Crimmitschau . ( Democratic weekly paper No. 40 of September 15, 1889)
  15. ↑ Democratic weekly paper . No. 6 supplement dated February 6, 1869.
  16. ↑ Democratic weekly paper . No. 18 of May 1, 1869.
  17. ^ [Johann Georg Eccarius]: Death of the President of the National Workers Union of the United States . In: Democratic weekly paper . Supplement No. 34 of August 21, 1869. (See also Documents of the first International. 1868–1870. Minutes . O. J. Lawrence & Wishart, London, p. 447.)
  18. ↑ Nothruf from Memel . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 31 of July 31, 1869.
  19. ^ Program of the democratic party in Saxony . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 27 of July 4, 1868. “This is the often mentioned 'Chemnitz Program', the publication of which we have been repeatedly requested; it was drafted and unanimously adopted by the state assembly of the Saxon democracy on August 19, 1866 immediately after the end of the Bismarckian War. "
  20. ^ Johann Jakoby on the democratic program . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 23 supplement dated June 6, 1868.
  21. ↑ On the miners question. From a miner . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 11 of March 14, 1868 and No. 13 of March 28, 1868.
  22. ↑ March Thoughts . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 13 of March 28, 1868.
  23. ↑ Another Prussian spy . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 17th of April 25, 1868; Another Prussian spy . No. 18 dated May 2, 1868; Riotous . No. 19 dated May 9, 1868; Riotous . No. 20 of May 16, 1868; Riotous . No. 22 dated May 30, 1868; Riotous . No. 24 of June 13, 1868; Riotous . No. 26 of June 27, 1868.
  24. ↑ Democratic weekly paper . No. 48 supplement dated November 28, 1858.
  25. ↑ The minutes of the association day were published in numbers 37 to 39 and number 41 annex.
  26. ↑ ZB No. 5 supplement from January 30, 1869; Adolph Kröber : The social position of the brewery workers . In: No. 9 supplement dated February 27, 1869 and No. 13 supplement dated March 27, 1869.
  27. ^ Progressive Party and People's Party . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 5 of January 30, 1869; National Liberal Workers Plappers . in No. 12 of March 20, 1869.
  28. ^ The Saxon state elections and the abstention of the People's Party . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 23 of June 5, 1869.
  29. ↑ Bebel: To Dr. Schweitzer in Berlin and Liebknecht: About the political position of social democracy, especially with reference to the North German "Reichstag" . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 27 of July 3, 1869.
  30. ↑ Democratic weekly paper. No. 29 of July 17, 1869.
  31. ↑ Democratic weekly paper . No. 31 supplement.
  32. ↑ Political overview . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 33 of August 14, 1869.
  33. ↑ Bibliography of his contributions to the “Demokratisches Wochenblatt” in: August Bebel. Selected speeches and writings . Volume 1. 1863 to 1878 . Arranged by Rolf Dlubek and Ursula Hermann. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 696-702.
  34. ^ Program of the International Workers' Association . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 31 supplement dated August 1, 1868, no. 32 supplement dated August 8, 1868, no. 33 supplement dated August 15, 1868 (Wolfgang Schröder: Leipzig - the cradle of the German labor movement , p. 185).
  35. ↑ explanation . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 27 of July 3, 1869.
  36. ^ To the party and to the party comrades . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 33 of August 14, 1869; To the party . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 34 of August 21, 1869; To the party comrades. the election of the committee . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 35 of August 28, 1869.
  37. ↑ On the oriental question. An exchange of letters . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 36 supplement dated September 5, 1868, No. 37 dated September 12, 1868, no. 38 supplement dated September 19, 1868. (Heinrich Gemkow: Sigismund Ludwig Borkheim . Argument, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-88619-650-X , P. 112.); SB: To the editor of the United States of Europe . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 36 supplement dated September 5, 1868.
  38. ↑ A popular enlightener . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 36 of September 6, 1868 and No. 45 of November 7, 1868.
  39. ↑ A Republican on the Labor Question . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 49 supplement dated December 5, 1868 and No. 50 supplement dated December 12, 1868.
  40. ↑ "Capital". Critique of the political economy by Karl Marx . Hamburg 1867. In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 31 of August 1, 1868, No. 34 of August 22, 1868, No. 35 of August 29, 1869 and No. 36 of September 6, 1868.
  41. ↑ JG Eccarius: The tailoring in London, or: The struggle of large and small capital . In: Democratic weekly paper . Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 (1868) as well as Appendix No. 24, Appendix No. 25 and Appendix No. 26 (1869). In this form also as a brochure published by Albert Eichhoff Verlag, Berlin 1869.
  42. ^ "Hamburg, July 2nd. Today's “Social Democrat” (No-76) ” […]. In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 28 supplement dated July 10, 1869.
  43. ↑ No article is known that he signed by name.
  44. ^ CH: The indirect taxes and the aftersocialism . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 2 supplement dated January 9, 1869; No. 4 supplement dated January 23, 1869; No. 6 supplement dated February 6, 1869 and No. 8 supplement dated February 20, 1869.
  45. ↑ Point 10 of the Eisenach program . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 44 of September 29, 1869.
  46. ↑ “From France. Paris, Sept. 18 H. The Emperor and the Imperial State Constitution “ […]. In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 43 of September 25, 1869.
  47. ^ Address to the Democrats of Spain . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 44 Supplement of October 31, 1869. (Printed in: Wilhelm Liebknecht. Against Militarism and War of Conquest. From writings and speeches . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1986, pp. 34–36.) See also Napoleon against the "Demokratisches Wochenblatt" . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 50 of December 12, 1869.
  48. ↑ About the political position of social democracy, especially with reference to the North German "Reichstag". Liebknecht's lecture at the meeting of the Berlin Democratic Workers' Association held on May 31st . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 27 of July 3, 1869 and No. 32 supplement of August 7, 1869. (Printed in: Wilhelm Liebknecht. Small political writings . Ed. By Wolfgang Schröder. Reclam, Leipzig 1976, pp. 14-30.)
  49. ↑ International trade union for manufacture, factory and manual workers . In: Demokratisches Wochenblatt No. 29 supplement of July 17, 1869; International trade union of manufacture, factory and manual workers . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 31 of July 31, 1869.
  50. ↑ explanation . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 31 Supplement from July 31, 1869. Literally taken from: Heinrich Oberwinder to Wilhelm Liebknecht, undated in: Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with German Social Democrats , pp. 256–257.
  51. ^ The relationship of the Capital and Junker Party to the workers . In: Democratic weekly paper . Supplement No. 44 of October 31, 1868. (See also; Ursula Hermann: Robert Schweichel (1821–1907) . In: Helmut Bleiber, Walter Schmidt, Susanne Schötz (ed.). Actors of upheaval. Men and women of the revolution of 1848/49 . Fides, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931363-11-2 , p. 813 and note 133).
  52. ↑ "The" Social Democrat ", the organ of Mr. Dr. Schweitzer “ [...]. In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 28 of July 10, 1869; To the authorized representatives and members of the German Woodworkers' Union . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 31 of July 31, 1869; Explanation . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 35 Supplement dated August 28, 1869 and open answer to Mr. Leo Fränkel . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 44 of September 29, 1869.
  53. ↑ MEW Volume 23, pp. 12-17.
  54. ↑ MEW Volume 23, p. 1217.
  55. ↑ The titles are reproduced according to the magazine and not according to Marx-Engels works .
  56. ↑ MEW Volume 16, pp. 235-242.
  57. ↑ MEW Volume 23, pp. 726-740.
  58. ↑ from Mr. Vogt . MEW Volume 14, pp. 570-579.
  59. ↑ MEW Volume 16, p. 316.
  60. ↑ MEW Volume 16, pp. 318-323.
  61. ↑ MEW Volume 16, pp. 326-329.
  62. ↑ MEW Volume 16, p. 330.
  63. ↑ MEW Volume 16, pp. 331-333.
  64. ↑ MEW Volume 16, pp. 196-198.
  65. ↑ MEW Volume 16, pp. 342-347.
  66. ↑ MEW Volume 16, pp. 350-354.
  67. ↑ Reprint of the article from Die Zukunft No. 185 from August 11, 1869.
  68. ↑ MEW Volume 16, pp. 361-366.
  69. ↑ MEW Volume 16, pp. 370-382.