German Workers' Hall (Hanover)

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The German Workers' Hall , subtitled weekly for the working and non-possessory classes, edited by Ludwig Stechan, was a magazine published in 1851 at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover . In terms of content , she propagated a socialism that, in addition to elements of Marxism, also contained bourgeois , democratic and cooperative ideas.

The weekly published by “ Verlag Pockwitz ” was initially published by the master carpenter, district chairman and “ protagonist of the early Hanoverian workers' movement Ludwig Stechan ”, who was also the editor in charge, and after his arrest on June 7, 1851 by Adolf Mensching .

The magazine appeared a total of 26 times and had around 270 subscribers; From April 1st until it was banned in early June 1851, it was mainly distributed in the Kingdom of Hanover, then, under Mensching, with the last three editions, mainly in the Kingdom of Prussia .

literature

  • Heiko Geiling : On processing the political defeat of 1848. The “German Workers' Hall. Weekly for the working and non-dispossessed classes, edited by L. Stechan ”. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 39 [1985], pp. 169–188.
  • Erhard Kiehnbaum: Beyond the guild! Ludwig Stechan - A master carpenter from Hanover . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. New episode . Volume 46, Hannover 1992, pp. 149-186.
  • Heiko Geiling: 1948 democracy and socialism in Hanover. Gottlieb Ludwig Stechan and the "German Workers Hall". In: Heide Barmeyer (Ed.): The revolutionary year 1848/49 in Lower Saxony (= Hannoversche Schriften zur Regional- und Lokalgeschichte , Vol. 14), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1999, ISBN 3-89534-296-3 , p. 141-158; contents
  • Klaus Mlynek : German workers hall. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 125f.

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c Klaus Mlynek: German Workers' Hall (see literature)
  2. ↑ Elke Brünle: libraries of Workers' Education Associations in the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1848 - 1918 (= Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft , vol. 20), also dissertation 2009 at the University of Mainz, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06195-7 , p. 84; online through google books
  3. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, June 10 , 1851 is also mentioned as the date of the arrest, compare Klaus Mlynek: Stechan, Gottlieb Ludwig, in: Stadtlexikon Hannover, pp. 599f.