Emanuel Wackernagel

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Emanuel Wackernagel

Eduard Emanuel Wackernagel (born August 19, 1846 in Basel ; † February 23, 1902 there ) was a Swiss newspaper publisher and politician ( FDP ). From 1886 to 1902 he was editor of the Basler Nachrichten .

Life

The Wackernagel family, who belonged to the Basel middle and upper classes, came from Berlin and were naturalized in the city of Basel in 1837 with the philologist Wilhelm Wackernagel (1806–1869).

Emanuel Wackernagel was the third oldest of five children of Wilhelm Wackernagel and Bluntschli , born Caroline Louise (1817–1848), sister of the legal scholar and politician Johann Caspar Bluntschli .

After the death of his brother Johann Gottfried Wackernagel (1844–1886), who acquired Basler Nachrichten in 1872 together with a group of radical politicians, the Basel government councilor Emil Frey , Benno Schwabe and Franz August Stocker , and who later took it over and managed it on his own , the administrative management of the Basler Nachrichten passed to him on February 23, 1886. Editors, without a nominal editor-in-chief, remained Stephan Born , Fritz Göttisheim and Franz August Stocker, Otto Zoller joined in 1891 to replace Gottfried Wackernagel . Gottfried Wackernagel's widow, Marie, remained the owner.

Emanuel Wackernagel was President of the Swiss Book Printers Association (today Viscom ) and from 1899 to 1902 President of the Swiss Newspaper Publishers Association (today Association of Swiss Media ). From 1894 to 1902 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency and also President of the Basler Credit Society.

He was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt for the Free Democratic Party .

Private

After the early death of his brother Gottfried in 1891 due to typhus , Wackernagel married his wife Maria "Marie", née Oser (1848–1911), and assumed the role of father for the four sons from the marriage of Maria with Gottfried and the two daughters from Gottfried's first marriage with Martha Im Hof ​​(1852–1874), who died giving birth to her second daughter. Two of his half-brothers from his father's second marriage to Maria Salome Sarasin (1816-1894), sister of the entrepreneur and politician Karl Sarasin , were the Indo-European Jacob Wackernagel (and his son, the historian and folklorist Hans Georg Wackernagel , a half-nephew) and the Historian Rudolf Wackernagel (and his son, the art historian Martin Wackernagel , another half-nephew).

Emanuel Wackernagel died at the age of 55 of complications from pneumonia on the same anniversary as his brother Gottfried.

literature

  • 100 years of Basler Nachrichten. Special issue of the Basler Nachrichten , November 1946 (one year late due to the war-related paper shortage).
  • † Emanuel Wackernagel. In: The Bund . 25./26. February 1902, first sheet, p. 2.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sara Janner: Wackernagel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Wackernagel. In: Genealogy of the Vorster family in Basel and related sexes in Basel, Germany and Holland.
  3. ↑ Nouvelles des cantons. In: Gazette de Lausanne . February 25, 1902 (Gottfried Wackernagel is incorrectly referred to here as father instead of brother).
  4. ↑ To our subscribers. In: Basler Nachrichten . March 10, 1886, p. 1.
  5. ↑ Emanuel Wackernagel. In: Genealogy of the Vorster family in Basel and related sexes in Basel, Germany and Holland.
  6. ↑ Maria Oser. In: Genealogy of the Vorster family in Basel and related sexes in Basel, Germany and Holland.
personal data
SURNAME Wackernagel, Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wackernagel, Eduard Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1902
Place of death Basel