Franz August Stocker

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Franz August Stocker

Franz August Stocker (born March 21, 1833 in Frick , † October 19, 1892 in Basel ) was a Swiss journalist, writer, publisher and politician.

Life

Stocker grew up in Frick as the son of the innkeeper and postman Franz Xaver Stocker and completed his school education in Rheinfelden and Aarau , where he attended the old canton school in Aarau for two years and then spent some time in French-speaking Switzerland. After the death of his father, he broke off his education and was elected post holder in Frick by the Swiss Federal Council on January 25, 1856. He continued this function until 1861. After becoming editor of the Basler Nachrichten in 1872, he moved to Basel, where he married Anna Maria Kay and became a citizen of Basel.

Journalist, publisher, writer

In 1855 he founded the short-lived "Schweizerische Postzeitschrift" and in 1859 the then "Neue Frickthaler Zeitung". In the early 1860s he became editor of the liberal people's newspaper “Der Schweizerbote”, founded by Heinrich Zschokke in 1804 . He valued Zschokke, which was also expressed in the fact that Stocker chose the name of a person in Zschokke's novella Der Freihof von Aarau Jörg von End as a pseudonym .

In 1863 he began in his "FA Stocker'schen Verlagshandlung" in Frick with the publication of the series "Bibliothek vaterländischer Schauspiele" , for which he himself wrote or revised some folk plays. The series was later continued by Verlag Sauerländer .

In 1884 he founded the magazine “Vom Jura zum Schwarzwald”. History, legend, country and people. Published with the participation of a number of writers and friends of the people. whose volumes were published in quarterly deliveries. Up to his death (1892) nine annual volumes were published.

In 1871 he became an employee of the Basler Nachrichten and in the following year he took over this newspaper together with Gottfried Wackernagel, Emil Frey and Benno Schwabe . Even when Wackernagel transferred the newspaper into his sole possession in 1884, Stocker remained editor until his death.

In 1890 Stocker's book “Das Volkstheater in der Schweiz” appeared , which subsequently saw several editions and was related to his work for the Swiss non-profit organization . In the same year he also published the volume Basler Stadtbilder. Old houses and families. Two years later, his story “Die Salpeterer. Historical tale from the southeastern Black Forest ” printed.

The liberal

In 1860 he was elected to the Aargau Grand Council for the first time , but was recalled. In 1864 he was re-elected and remained in the Aargau parliament until 1870. During the Swiss Kulturkampf (in the 1870s) he was on the liberal Catholic side and helped found the Christian Catholic Church in Basel . From 1875 to 1892 he was a member of the Grand Council of Basel , where he was one of the radical liberals around Emil Frey. In the Grand Council he was also a member of the theater commission.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Stocker, Franz August . In: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Volume 7th, 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, pp. 85–86, accessed on May 31, 2020
  • **: Franz August Stocker. In: Vom Jura zum Schwarzwald, Volume 9 (1892), pp. 316-320 Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  • Joseph Kehrein : Lexicon of Catholic Poets, Folk and Youth Writers in the 19th Century , Second Edition, Würzburg 1872, pp. 176–177 Google digitized version
  • Anton Senti: Stocker, Franz August. In: Argovia: annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, Volume 68–69 (1958), Biographisches Lexikon des Aargau, 1803–1957: Jubilee edition of the Historical Society, pp. 748–749 e-periodica

Web links

Wikisource: Franz August Stocker  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Historical Lexicon of Switzerland
  2. ↑ see Federal Gazette of the Swiss Confederation 1856, Volume 1, p. 115 Google digitized version
  3. ↑ see Brümmer
  4. ↑ ZDB -ID 3016295-6
  5. ^ Corinne Leuenberger: The Swiss messenger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 27, 2012 , accessed June 5, 2020 .
  6. ^ The Freihof von Aarau in the Internet Archive
  7. ↑ ZDB -ID 2250048-0
  8. ↑ ZDB -ID 542546-3
  9. ^ Ernst Bollinger: Basler Nachrichten. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 10, 2004 , accessed June 5, 2020 .
  10. ↑ see Brunner in HLS
personal data
SURNAME Stocker, Franz August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES End, Jörg von (pseudonym); Stocker, FA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Frick AG
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1892
Place of death Basel