Dresdner Volksbote

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Dresdner Volksbote

description Organ for the interests of the entire people
First edition 1871
attitude 1877
Frequency of publication Every day; three to six times a week
Editor-in-chief August Otto-Walster
ZDB 995568-9

The Dresdner Volksbote was a “socialist daily publication ” for the interests of the entire people. The publisher was the "Standing Committee of shop stewards of workers' corporations and associations in Dresden and the surrounding area". On April 2, 1871, the first issue of the "Dresdner Volksbote" appeared under the editorship of the social democratic writer August Otto-Walster ; it was the first Dresden workers' newspaper. In 1872 the newspaper already had around 2,000 subscribers and in 1874 the "Dresdner Volksbote" had around 4,000 subscribers. The forerunner of the "Dresdner Volksbote" was the Saxonia from 1859 , on April 1st, 1877 the "Volksbote" became the Dresdner Volkszeitungcontinued, the newspaper was banned under the Bismarckian Socialist Law in 1878.

In the first editions, Otto-Walster bravely committed himself to the heroic struggle of the Paris Commune . In the story “In our days” Otto-Walster described the situation in Germany after the end of the war in 1870/71 “At the loom of time”. In May 1872 he published a travelogue from Bohemia which also mentioned his appearances in workers' meetings. In a few years an intimate relationship had developed between the labor movement in Germany and in Bohemia.

Otto-Walster hired the young Max Kegel as typesetter . Under the guidance of the experienced journalist and politician, Kegel worked for the Volksbote for years. As a typesetter and young journalist, Max Kegel read the reports on the Paris Commune every day and expressed his solidarity with August Bebel's speech in the Reichstag on May 25, 1871.

In September 1873 to 1874 Ignaz Auer came to the Dresdner Volksbote as a journalist and travel agent. The magazine's authors included Hermann Goldstein and Max Kayser . After Otto-Walster had already served 25 prison sentences for his political, journalistic and agitational activities, Otto-Walster went to the USA in 1876 ​​because of the socialist laws in the German Reich . His successor was Georg von Vollmar , he became editor of the Dresdner Volksbote through social democratic contacts . His debut was short-lived, however, because the 7th year of the magazine was discontinued on March 31, 1877.

literature

  • Hartmut Zwahr , Manfred Hettling, Uwe Schirmer, Susanne Schötz: Figures and structures: Historical essays for Hartmut Zwahr on his 65th birthday. KG Saur, 2002 - 834 pages, page 646ff.
  • Klaus Mathes: August Otto-Walster: writers and politicians in the German labor movement: studies of narrative work 1864–1876. P. Lang, 1987 - 185 pages, page 28.
  • Rudolf Förster, Fritz Kriegenherdt: Dresden: History of the city in words and pictures. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1984 - 319 pages.
  • Alfred Hahn, Ernst Neef: Dresden. Akademie-Verlag, 1984 - 270 pages.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Election campaigns and party development. On the significance of the Reichstag elections for the formation of the social democracy into a political mass party (Saxony 1867-1881) page 44.
  2. ↑ Uwe Schieferdecker : History of the City of Dresden, Wartberg-Verlag, 2003 - 160 pages, page 94.
  3. ^ Alfred Hahn, Ernst Neef: Dresden. Akademie-Verlag, 1984 - 270 pages. Page 47.
  4. ↑ a b Ursula Münchow: Workers' Movement and Literature 1860-1914. Construction publishing house. Page 261,275.
  5. ^ Series of publications by the Commission of Historians of the GDR and the ČSR. Rütten & Loening, 1958. Page 336.
  6. ↑ Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Ed.): Braunschweig in forgotten novels and stories. An anthology. , P. 80

Web links

  • Protection of the worker in the international workers' trade unions. A reminder to all German workers from A. Otto-Walster. Expedition of the Dresdner Volksbote. 1871 digital
  • Preserving the Printed Memory of the Labor Movement: The History of the Libraries of German Social Democracy. Dresdner Volksbote page 25. digital