Edgar Bauer

Edgar Bauer (born October 7, 1820 in Charlottenburg , † August 18, 1886 in Hanover ) was a political-philosophical writer and activist. He also published under the pseudonym Martin von Geismar and Radge.

Life

Edgar Bauer, the eleven years younger brother of the most important Young Hegelian next to Ludwig Feuerbach, Bruno Bauer , studied first theology , then law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . He broke off his studies in 1842 and developed an extensive journalistic activity as a freelance writer , so u. a. as an employee of the Rheinische Zeitung . Because of his book The Controversy of Criticism with Church and State , he was sentenced to four years imprisonment in Magdeburg in 1843 . After his release he took part in the fighting of the March Revolution in Berlin in 1848.

At the beginning of 1849, Bauer went to Hamburg . He later lived under a false name in Altona and from 1851 worked as an editor for the Altonaer Zeitung , which sided with Denmark in the Schleswig-Holstein war . On the run from the Prussian police, he came to London via Copenhagen . There he often met Karl Marx , whom he knew from Berlin. However, the relationship between the two was not very good. Jenny Marx wrote in a letter to Friedrich Engels in August 1857: “A few evenings ago the clown Edgar Bauer was with us; but without cod liver oil it has really become a stockfish that still wants to be witty. The efforts were so terrible that I almost passed out, but Karl really broke, not figuratively ”.

Bauer worked as an informant for the Danish authorities during his time in London and wrote more than a hundred reports on political activities by emigrants between November 1852 and May 1861. In September 1856 he expressly distanced himself from the revolutionary movement: “I followed the course of democracy, I saw these champions of freedom first sullen, then obstinate, then almost childish in their calculations, until here a phrase, there a principle , there a future calculus like dry leaves fell off a dying tree and in the end nothing was left but uncertainty, vacillation, mental misery ”.

The amnesty of 1861 allowed him to return to Germany. He first lived as an editor in Berlin, founded the conservative Kirchliche Blätter in Altona in 1870 . A Journal of Christian freedom and Christian law , which in its publisher and its editor - initially in collaboration with Bishop Koopmann - until March 1872 appeared, and then went to Hanover, where he publicist for the Protestant supporters of the 1866 sold by Prussia Guelph house had . After Bauer suffered a stroke in 1884 that paralyzed him, he died on August 18, 1886 of a heart attack .

Edgar Bauer was married to Albertine Michaelis (* 1819 in Berlin) in London since 1851. He had five children, including Anntonie (* 1850 Ottensen ) and William.

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Bauer's early writings are so inspired by the desire for freedom that Max Nettlau , the historian of anarchism , placed him avant la lettre in the anarchist ancestral line. Gustav Landauer had previously referred to the young Edgar Bauer as the man "who actually founded anarchism for Germany" and published a missing text by him. After 1848 he developed from a pre- March revolutionary to a “state-supporting” citizen.

His estate is in the archive of social democracy in Bonn.

Fonts

• Bruno Bauer and his opponents . Jonas, Berlin 1842
• (Edgar Bauer / Friedrich Engels): The boldly troubled but wonderfully liberated Bible. Or: the triumph of faith. That is: Terrible, but truthful and considerable historia of the former licentiate Bruno Bauer; how he has been seduced by the devil, has fallen away from pure faith, has become a devil and is finally terrified. Christian hero poem in four songs. Hess, Neumünster near Zurich 1842. MDZ Reader
• History of Europe since the First French Revolution (by Archibald Alison) . In: German year books for science and art, 14./15./16. December 1842, pp. 1185-1195; Reprinted in: Heinz and Ingrid Pepperle (eds.): Die Hegelsche Linke ; Leipzig: Philipp Reclam jun. 1985, pp. 522-546
• The conflict of criticism with church and state . Egbert Bauer, Charlottenburg 1843 abridged reprint in: Heinz and Ingrid Pepperle (eds.): Die Hegelsche Linke ; Leipzig: Philipp Reclam jun. 1985, pp. 579-712 digitized version
• The censorship instruction of January 31, 1843. Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1843 digitized
• Controversy between criticism and modern contradictions. With contributions by Bruno Bauer, Edgar Bauer, Ernst Jungnitz, Szelige and others. Digitized
• Memories of Modern History , 12 booklets; 1843–1844 (with Bruno Bauer) digitized ; Digitized ; Digitized
• The history of the constitutional movements in southern Germany during the years 1831–34 , 3 volumes. Egbert Bauer, Charlottenburg 1845
• The art of historiography and Mr. Dahlmann's story of the French Revolution . Falckenber, Magdeburg 1846
• Martin von Geismar: Library of the German Enlightenment of the eighteenth century . 5 parts in 1 volume. Association publishing house bookstore, Leipzig 1846–1847
• About marriage. Marriage in the sense of Lutheranism . Otto Wigang, Leipzig 1847
• Man and marriage before the judgment seat of morality. By W. Marr In: The Epigones. Fifth Volume (1848), pp. 317-343
• Reflections on the Integrity of the Danish Monarchy . Wertheim and Macintosh, London 1857
• English freedom . Otto Wigang Leipzig 1857 digitized
• Schleswig . Werthein, Macintosh and cHunt. London 1861
• The Duchy of Holstein and its rights. A memorandum for the Holstein meeting of estates. From a Prussian . Heinicke, Berlin 1863
• The Germans and their neighbors . Hamburg 1870 not recorded in any library. Gamby, p. 69.
• Peace songs. Altona 1871 (2nd edition 1871)
• The German Empire in its historical form. At the same time a contribution to the examination of the origin of the Germans, Cherusci , Celts and Slavs . Bauer, Altona 1872
• The truth about the International . Bauer, Altona 1872
• Article V, the German thought and the Danish monarchy . Bauer, Altona 1873
• Linguistics. First stage . Bauer, Hanover 1874
• The Masonic Society and the Light. Building blocks for the history of the lodge and the religious legend . Bauer, Hanover 1877
• Two sketches of the order. I. The Independent Odd Fellows of England and America. II. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as a friar. E. Grimm, Leipzig 1881
• The Magus of the North. Novella . E. Grimm, Leipzig 1882
• The capital and the capital power. Principles and facts for an understanding of the social question . E. Grimm, Hanover 1884 (2nd edition 1888)
• Edgar Bauer. Confidential Reports on European Emigration in London 1852-1861 . Edited by Erik Gamby. Texts edited by Margret Dietzen and Elisabeth Neu. Trier 1989 ISBN 3-926132-06-X ( writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus issue 38)

literature

• Correspondence between Bruno Bauer and Edgar Bauer during the years 1839-1842 from Bonn and Berlin ; Charlottenburg, 1844 digitized
• Erik Gamby: Edgar Bauer. Young Hegelian, publicist and police agent. With bibliography of E. Bauer texts and attached documents . Trier 1985 (writings from Karl-Marx-Haus 32)
• Wolfgang Essbach: The Young Hegelians. Sociology of a group of intellectuals. Munich: Wilhelm Fink 1988; ISBN 3-7705-2434-9 (pp. 71, 193–203, passim)
• Ichiro Tamura: The abolition of the modern state: the political philosophy of the young Edgar Bauer in the German pre-March. Berlin: Logos 2005; ISBN 3-8325-0708-6

Web links

Wikisource: Edgar Bauer  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Edgar Bauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reading excerpt from "Edgar Bauer. Young Hegelian, Publicist and Police Agent"

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1. ↑ Anagram by Edgar.
2. ↑ Bauer wrote a drastically ironic description about it: The journey at public expense. In: Die Epigonen, Volume V, 1847, pp. 9–112
3. ^ Marx / Engels works. Vol. 29. Dietz, Berlin 1970. p. 644
4. ↑ Erik Gamby (Ed.): Confident Reports on European Emigration in London 1852–1861 . Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier 1989. The edition is based on the holdings of the Reichsarchiv Copenhagen
5. ↑ Max Nettlau: The early spring of anarchy ; Berlin: Verlag Der Syndikalist , Fritz Kater 1925, p. 178
6. ↑ See on the history of the word anarchy. In: Der Sozialist , June 1, 1909
7. ↑ Edgar Bauer: The Church, the State and the Individual. In: Der Sozialist, January 1, 1910
8. ^ Edgar Bauer's estate
9. ↑ Contains: general literature - newspaper. Monthly. Edited by Bruno Bauer. Year 1843/44 issue 1–12.