Emil Dietzsch

Emil Dietzsch

Emil Dietzsch (born April 7, 1829 in Trippstadt , † September 12, 1890 in Chicago ) was a German-American poet and pharmacist in Chicago.

Life

In 1849, at the age of 20, Dietzsch took part in the Palatinate uprising in Kaiserslautern. During his studies in 1850 he became a member of the Old Munich Burschenschaft Rhenania . After studying pharmacy, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago as a pharmacist. As a politically active person, he and Friedrich Hecker helped found the Republican Party in the USA. He wrote a number of political writings and was one of the leading figures who organized and held the German community in Chicago together. Later he was an ardent supporter of the German Emperor Wilhelm I , although it was he who, as a young Prince of Prussia, had put down the Palatinate uprising. He wrote many poems in which he expressed his bond with the German Empire and his native Palatinate in German.

Works (selection)

• Power and substance - From the history of the German people , Chicago 1884, Verlag Gustav Hinstorff
• Chicago's German Men - commemorative sheets for Chicago's 50th anniversary. History of the City of Chicago , 1885, ed. by Max Stern and Fred Kressmann

literature

• Roland Paul, “A forty-eight man as one of the leading Germans in Chicago” in “In the heart of the Palatinate Forest, Trippstadt in the past and present”, Ed. Karlheinz Schauder, 2003, Verlag Franz Arbogast, Otterbach ISBN 3-87022-305-7
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 203-204.