The North Star (newspaper)

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The Nordstern was an early newspaper of the German labor movement . It was published from 1860 to 1866.

history

The journal Ipecacuanha was published in Hamburg on January 1, 1860 , and from the fifth edition was named Nordstern, based on the chartist newspaper Northern Star . The newspaper was supported by an opposition group in the Hamburg workers' education association . After 1848/49 this came under the control of the moderately liberal property and educated bourgeoisie again. Internal opposition turned against the depoliticization of the association from the end of the 1850s. Among them were former supporters of the Communist League .

The paper was initially democratically oriented, hinted at a certain social criticism and in some cases tied in with the cooperative ideas of Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch . With a view to the German question , the newspaper relied on a solution from below and not on the governments. At the beginning of the 1860s, the paper contributed to the establishment of a democratic association in Hamburg. In 1862, the workers in Hamburg began to break away from the bourgeois democrats. At the beginning of 1863 there was a split and a congregation of the ADAV began to form.

The newspaper had various subtitles. Since number 198 of February 7, 1863 "Organ for Labor and Workers", since number 1202 of March 7, 1863 "Organ for the German People"; since number 303 of April 1, 1865 "Organ of the social-democratic party - general workers 'paper" and since number 322 of September 9, "organ of the social-democratic party and the general German workers' association". The Nordstern was not the official organ of the association.

The editorial management was initially Wilhelm Redicker. From 1863 Karl von Bruhn was in charge of the paper. August Perl was the responsible publisher from January 2, 1864 to April 7, 1865, followed by H. Levien and Ed. Hansen. The sheet was printed by JEM Koehler. The employees included: August Perl, Otto Dammer , Heinrich Oberwinder , Wilhelm Liebknecht , Ferdinand Lassalle and Johann Philipp Becker from ADAV. There were also contributions from non-party democrats such as Karl Blind , Karl Heinzen or Wilhelm Rustow .

When Karl Blind attacked Karl Marx again at the end of 1864 because of the Carl Vogt affair , which Marx had described in his book Herr Vogt , Marx wrote “To the observer in Stuttgart”. The Nordstern published this letter in its number 287 on December 10th, 1864 with the comment: "This article has been sent to us by a second hand and only because of special consideration of it is it included in 'Nordstern'".

The newspaper appeared once a week. The newspaper did not appear from the end of September 1865 to January 6, 1866. The edition was small. The maximum number of printed copies was 400. In order to be able to continue the newspaper at all, Ferdinand Lassalle made 100 thalers available in 1863. After the number of newspapers sold fell again, the newspaper had to be temporarily suspended in 1864. The board of the ADAV no longer supported the paper. Contrary to the association's statutes, the Hamburg community of the ADAV provided the Nordstern with sufficient funds so that it could continue to appear. The bad situation also seems to have had something to do with the poor management of the paper. Otto Dammer, Theodor Yorck and others complained accordingly .

In 1865 the paper positioned itself as the organ of the internal party opponents of ADAV President Bernhard Becker . Instead of the dictatorship of an individual, it relied on a party leadership of three people. Bruhn was unable to assert himself with this. As a result, he and the North Star no longer played a role in the ADAV. Incidentally, the newspaper could not stand up to the competition of the Social Democrat and died in 1866.

literature

  • anonymous: The history of the Social Democratic Party in Germany since the death of Ferdinand Lassalle. Compiled and documented from the two organs of the party, the Social Democrat in Berlin and the Nordstern in Hamburg . Th. Lembke's Buchhandlung, Berlin 1865; archive.org
  • Heinrich Laufenberg : History of the labor movement in Hamburg Altona and the surrounding area. First volume. Hamburger Buchdruckerei and Verlagsanstalt Auer & Co, Hamburg 1911, pp. 203–302
  • Bert Andréas : On the agitation and propaganda of the General German Workers' Association 1863/64. In: Archive for Social History , 3/1963, pp. 302–303
  • Günter Trautmann : Liberalism, Labor Movement and State in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein 1862–1869. In: Archive for Social History , 15/1975, p. 61 f.
  • Dieter Dowe (ed.): Reprints on social history by JHW Dietz Nachf. General catalog 1978/79 . Bonn 1978, p. 80
  • Helmut Hirsch , Hans Pelger: An unpublished letter from Karl Marx to Sophie von Hatzfeldt . About the argument with Karl Blind after Ferdinand Lassalle's death . Trier 1983 ( writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus Trier, issue 27)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Dowe, p. 80.
  2. ^ Karl Marx: Letter to the editor of the "Observer". In: Marx-Engels-Werke , Volume 16, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Helmut Hirsch , Hans Pelger: An unpublished letter from Karl Marx to Sophie von Hatzfeldt . About the argument with Karl Blind after Ferdinand Lassalle's death . Trier 1983, p. 61 ff.
  4. ↑ Arno Herzig: The development of the Hamburg labor movement in the 19th century . In. Tales of Two Cities: Hamburg and Chicago . Berlin, 2006, p. 188
  5. ↑ This pamphlet was written by Eugen Richter as a campaign pamphlet against the emerging labor movement and should be treated with caution.