German Brussels newspaper

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The Deutsche-Brusseler-Zeitung ( DBZ ) was a newspaper founded by Adelbert von Bornstedt in Brussels in 1847 , which appeared twice a week. A “Prospectus” appeared in November 1846. The newspaper appeared from January 1, 1847 to February 27, 1848. The circulation was 200 to 300 copies. The DBZ was temporarily an organ of the German Workers' Association in Brussels and the Association Démocratique . The newspaper became known through the collaboration of Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels and Wilhelm Wolff .

The German Brussels Newspaper

The DBZ was published in Brussels by Bornstedt after he was forced to leave Paris. Originally Julius Behrens was supposed to be co-editor. The first sample number appeared after November 5th and the second on November 22nd, 1846. The first editors were Bornstedt and Hermann Freidanck, who was replaced by Friedrich Krüger. The newspaper was produced by the Friedrich Wilhelm Köthers printing company. In London, the Deutsch-Londoner Zeitung and the Northern Star, edited by George Julian Harney, published reprints of individual articles; in Germany, no newspaper could publish articles from the DBZ. There were few mentions of the DBZ in Switzerland and Paris. Various attempts by Prussia and Austria not to allow the newspaper to appear in the first place were unsuccessful, since Article 18 of the Belgian constitution guaranteed freedom of the press.

Wilhelm Wolff was the first DBZ employee from Marx's environment. Wolff wrote thirty articles for the newspaper. His collaboration began with a report: “Who is represented by the united state parliament in Prussia?” The article “Protective tariff or free trade system” also comes from him and not from Friedrich Engels.

Karl Marx's first article was the declaration against Karl Grün . His regular collaboration did not begin until September 1847 with the article Der Kommunismus des “Rheinischer Beobachter” . Friedrich Engels began his collaboration at the same time as Marx with his examination of "true socialism" ( German socialism in verse and prose ). Stephan Born wrote six articles marked by name, as did Karl Heinzen and Moses Hess. Bornstedt printed some previously published poems by Georg Weerth, and Weerth wrote above all about the Chartists in England and about the Brussels Free Trade Congress. Ferdinand Wolff contributed an article marked by name and three others entitled “Time Sketches”.

The main topics in the DBZ were solidarity with Poland, reports on the Brussels German Workers' Association , the establishment and development of the Association Démocratique , an international society made up of Belgians, Poles, French and Germans. She also dealt with the protective tariff and free trade debates. With the outbreak of the February Revolution in Paris in 1848 and the fear of the Belgian authorities under Leopold I , numerous members of the Association Démocratique and employees of the DBZ were arrested. Bornstedt and Marx, like many others, went to Paris because they had been expelled.

From Heinrich Heine six poems published feuilleton of DBZ, including the Weber song and "The praises of King Ludwig". In addition, the DBZ published four cartoons in supplements , including one by Friedrich Engels (“Opening of the Prussian Estates”).

Quotes

“The attempt to found a German newspaper here, which has failed several times, should, as we hear, be made again. On January 1, 1847, a 'German Brussels newspaper' will come into being here. We are named as the publisher of the same: the very well-known AV Bornstedt, who was expelled from Paris because of his legitimist involvement, and an Behrens from Berlin. The sample number that will appear in the next few days will show to what extent the allegedly socialist tendencies of Mr. Behrens merge with the legitimistic-ultramontane of Mr. Bornstedt. "

- Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung No. 309 of November 9, 1846.

"The piety towards the fatherland is, this is only too true, injured more by any nation than by the Germans, and this is one of the main causes of the bad smell in which we are with other peoples. Filing or heartless writers of German origin have pilloried our nationality almost everywhere where there is a press. Nowhere does this happen in a more shameless way than in Brussels. The 'German Brussels Newspaper' is a disgraceful paper that kicks the most sacred things for a few Judas pennies, leaving the rawest mob soul untouched; a commercially pursued patriotic treachery for the wages of miserable sin money that is squandered on beer benches. The 'German Brussels newspaper' has the shamelessness to openly write its courtship business on its forehead. She announced her October quarter with the following notification: Every new subscriber for one year will receive a free copy when the 'Memoirs of Miss Czech' are published. From October 1st, the printing of the 'Memoirs on the Secret History of the Prussian Court' began. - You can also have individual numbers of the newspaper and the cartoons in the Café Hôtel du Domino, in the Estaminet à la ville de Mallines and at the various railway stations. "

- Adolph Helfferich 1848

“The fight with Mr. Engels came about through a remark in the 'Brüßeler Deutsche Zeitung'; whose editor, the famous Herr von Bornstadt, on communist inspiration (he himself knew nothing about the matter) reproached me for having started the war with the communists. A statement in which I rejected this untruth and at the same time made a few general remarks about communists and communism, Mr. Engels accepted as gauntlet. "

- Karl Heinzen : The heroes of German communism. 1848, p. 7.

Emphasis

  • German Brussels newspaper. Edition Culture et Civilization, Bruxelles undated [1981]
    • German Brussels newspaper. January 1, 1847 - February 27, 1848. Facsimile with introduction and remarks by Bert Andréas ; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger. Edition Culture et Civilization, Bruxelles undated [1981]

Partial reprints

  • Marx-Engels-Werke Vol. 4 (see web links)
  • The League of Communists. Documents and materials . Vol. 1 1836-1849. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970
  • Walter Schmidt (Ed.): Wilhelm Wolff. From Silesia, Prussia and the Reich. Selected writings . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1985, pp. 114-183
  • Association Démocratique, ayant pour but l'union et la fraternité de tous les peuples. An early international democratic association in Brussels 1847–1848. Edited by Bert Andréas, Jacques Grandjonc and Hans Pelger. Arranged by Helmut Elsner and Elisabeth Neu. Trier 2004, ISBN 3-86077-847-1 ( writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus issue 44)

Authors

Employee

Except Bornstedt, Wilhelm Wolff, Marx and Engels

Contributor

literature

  • Peter von Struve: Two previously unknown essays by Karl Marx from the forties. A contribution to the genesis of scientific socialism . In: The new time . Review of intellectual and public life . 14.1895-96, 2nd Vol. (1896), Issue 27, pp. 4-11 Online
  • Peter von Struve: Two previously unknown essays by Karl Marx from the forties. A contribution to the history of the development of scientific socialism II. In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life . 14.1895-96, 2nd Vol. (1896), Issue 28, pp. 48-55 Online
  • Peter von Struve: The German Brussels newspaper from 1847 . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life . - 15.1896-97, issue 12, pp. 380-381 online
  • Franz Mehring : Again Marx and “true” socialism . In: The new time. Review of intellectual and public life . 4.1895-96, 2nd Vol. (1896), Issue 39, pp. 395-401 Online
  • Franz Mehring: A few things about the party history . In: The new time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 20.1901-1902, Volume 1 (1902), Issue 18, pp. 545-548 Online
  • H. Uyttersprot: Adalbert von Bornstedts "Deutsche- Brusser -Zeitung" from 1847 . In: Vlaamse Gids . Bruxelles 1951 XXXV. Vol. 1, pp. 12-27
  • Walter Schmidt : On the collaboration of Wilhelm Wolff on the "German Brussels newspaper" . In: Contributions to the history of the German labor movement . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1961 Issue 2, pp. 318-348
  • Walter Schmidt: The Polish question in the "German Brussels newspaper" 1847/48 . In: Yearbook for the history of the USSR and the people's democratic countries of Europe . Berlin 1964. Vol. 8, pp. 214–245
  • Walter Schmidt: The united state parliament in Prussia and the elaboration of the strategy and tactics of the communists (February to September 1847) . In: Contributions to the history of the German labor movement . Special edition Karl Marx, Berlin 1968, pp. 51–74
  • Walter Schmidt: Wilhelm Wolff. Comrade and friend of Marx and Engels. 1846-1864 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1979 Bibliography of the contributions by Wilhelm Wolff in the DBZ pp. 423–426.
  • Contemporaries of Marx and Engels. Selected letters from the years 1844 to 1852 . Edited and annotated by Kurt Koszyk and Karl Obermann . Van Gorcum & Comp, Assen / Amsterdam 1975 (= sources and studies on the history of the German and Austrian labor movement. New series . Ed. Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam Volume VI.)
  • Guido Ros: Adalbert von Bornstedt and his German-Brussels newspaper. A contribution to the history of German émigré journalism in Vormärz . KG Saur, Munich 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 19 f. (List III).
  2. ^ DBZ February 28, 1847.
  3. ^ DBZ June 10, 1847.
  4. ^ Walter Schmidt: The united state parliament , p. 63; Walter Schmidt (1985), p. 114 f .; Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, notes 49 and 57.
  5. ↑ "We received the following communication from Mr. Karl Marx with the Bitter in order to be included in our paper."
  6. ↑ DBZ No. 73 of September 12, 1847.
  7. ^ DBZ September 12th and 16th.
  8. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, pp. 72-74.
  9. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 74.
  10. ↑ Bert Andréas: Marx's arrest and expulsion from Brussels February / March 1848 . Trier 1978 (writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus issue 22)
  11. ^ DBZ February 14, May 23, June 6, July 22 and August 29, 1847
  12. ^ DBZ February 14, 1847 and August 29, 1847.
  13. ↑ Printed in Marx-Engels-Werke Vol. 4 opposite p. 32.
  14. ^ Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung Online
  15. ^ Elisabeth Czech: Life and death of the mayor Czech, who shot the King of Prussia on July 26, 1844 and was executed on December 14, 1844 in Spandau . Printed and published by Jenni Sohn, Bern 1849.
  16. ^ Belgium in political, ecclesiastical, educational and artistic relationships . Flammer and Hoffmann, Pforzheim 1848, pp. 172-173.
  17. ↑ The Heroes of German Communism Online
  18. ↑ ( Speech by the German Friedrich Crüger September 27, 1847 ( Association Démocratique , p. 284 f.)
  19. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, pp. 17, 25, 42, 59, 64 f., 78 f.
  20. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, pp. 25, 65 f.
  21. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 67 f.
  22. ^ Report on the Congress on Prisons . (Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 68.)
  23. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 68 f.
  24. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 69.
  25. ↑ Private correspondence . In: DBZ February 7, 1847 (Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 70).
  26. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 71 f.
  27. ^ ( Speech by the Swiss Mathias Marti, September 27, 1847 ). ( Association Démocratique , p. 279 f.)
  28. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 71.
  29. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 70 f.
  30. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 72 ff.
  31. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 74 f.
  32. ↑ Cluß wrote under his code name “C. Lange “in: DBZ November 4, 1847. (Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 80). Printed in: Der Bund der Kommunisten , pp. 583-584.
  33. ↑ Two poems and an excerpt from a letter from Freiligrath to Bornstedt (Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 75).
  34. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 75 f.
  35. ↑ Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 76 f.
  36. ↑ It is the poem "Waldstätte". In: DBZ December 23, 1847 (Bert Andréas; Jacques Grandjonc; Hans Pelger, p. 77).