Friedrich Dernburg

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Friedrich Dernburg

Friedrich Dernburg (born October 3, 1833 in Mainz , † December 3, 1911 in Berlin ) was a publicist and politician of German-Jewish origin.

family

Dernburg came from an important Jewish family of scholars, but later converted to the Evangelical Lutheran faith and also raised his children in this denomination. His father Jakob Hartwig Dernburg (1795–1878) was a lawyer in Mainz and attorney general at the Higher Appeal Court, Grand Ducal Privy Councilor and Professor of Law in Giessen. His son Bernhard Dernburg (1865–1937) was a banker, State Secretary of the Reich Colonial Office and, in 1919, temporarily finance minister in Scheidemann's cabinet . His brother Heinrich Dernburg was also a lawyer and rector of the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin.

Since 1864 he was married to Louise Stahl (* 1842).

Life

Friedrich Dernburg as Heidelberger Rhenane, detail from a lithograph by Carl Schubart (1852)

Friedrich Dernburg studied law in Giessen and Heidelberg (member of the Corps Rhenania ) and became court attorney in Darmstadt.

From 1866 to 1875 he was a member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse ( constituency Rheinhessen 7 / Osthofen and Starkenburg 15 / Langen-Neu Isenburg ) and at that time one of the leading leaders of the Progressive Party in Hesse. As a member of the state parliament and leader of the Hessian progress party, Dernburg fought against Dalwigk's politics. From 1871 to October 1881 he was a member of the Reichstag (constituency 5 Hesse), initially for the National Liberal Party , later non-attached.

He began his journalistic activity in Hesse as an editor for the Main-Zeitung . In 1875 Dernburg became editor-in-chief of the Berliner Nationalzeitung founded in 1848 as a typical product of the liberal March demands , the house newspaper of the National Liberals and one of the highest-circulation newspapers in the Reich capital. Shortly before he started there, the national newspaper merged with the venerable Spenersche Zeitung . The gradual decline of the National Liberals since the end of the 1870s, however, also had an impact on the development of their main publication organ, which, although Dernburg himself remained true to his liberal convictions, represented changeable positions.

Instead, the circle of reference of the sheet grew steadily. In the 1880s, the national newspaper was available well beyond Berlin as one of the leading organs of the German opinion press throughout the Reich, later also in Austria and from 1876 in France.

When the national newspaper was transferred to a stock company founded by leading national liberals in 1890 by the previous owner Ferdinand Salomon, Dernburg resigned from his office. From 1894 he worked as a feature editor for the “Berliner Tageblatt”.

Dernburg was close friends with the national liberal politician Ludwig Bamberger , who like him came from a Hessian-Jewish family. He accompanied Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia (Emperor Friedrich III. ) On trips to Spain and Rome. After leaving the national newspaper, he used the time to travel extensively. In the autumn of 1891 he made a trip to the area of ​​the Anatolian Railway between Constantinople and Angora, which was still under construction, and published a trip description in several columns. As a member of the German Commission of the World Exhibition of 1893 in Chicago , he was entrusted with the representation of the German press and, among other things, took on the task of reporting.

In addition, Dernburg was also active in fiction. He wrote a play "Trenck" in five acts (Berlin: Buchdruckerei der Nationalzeitung, 1886), "Die Parlamentarians" (play in four acts; Berlin: Gustav Schwab, 1886); “Der Oberstolze” (detective novel, two volumes, Berlin: Walther & Apolant , 1889) and the comedy “Fehlter Beruf” (together with Erich Zabel, Berlin, Reg. London Stat. Hall, 1891).

tomb

Friedrich Dernburg died on November 3, 1911 and was buried in the cemetery in Berlin-Grunewald . His grave in Dept. III is today the grave of honor of the city of Berlin.

Works

  • Spanish pictures. (1884).
  • The German Crown Prince's trip to Spain and Rome. Journalistic travel sketches. Salomon, Berlin 1884.
  • Russian people. Springer, Berlin 1885.
  • The parliamentarians. (Drama, 1886).
  • Trenck. Acting in five acts. Bloch, Berlin 1886.
  • Berlin stories. Springer, Berlin 1886, (novellas).
  • The Colonel. A Berlin time novel. 2 volumes. Walther & Apolant, Berlin 1889.
  • On German railways in Asia Minor. An autumn ride. Springer, Berlin 1892.
  • From the white city. Chicago World's Fair walks and other trips. Springer, Berlin 1893, online .
  • In the shackles of guilt. Novel in 3 books. 2 volumes. Silesian book printing, art and publishing establishment, Breslau 1894.
  • A Berliner on Helgoland and other short stories. S. Schottlaender, Breslau 1895.
  • Adolf Woermann. In: Koloniale Rundschau. 1911, ZDB -ID 515840-0 , pp. 465-471.

literature

  • Heinz-Eberhard Andres: 100 years of Rhenania Heidelberg. 1849-1949. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1949, p. 28 f.
  • Paul Arnsberg : The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning. Downfall. New beginning. Volume 1. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 , p. 121.
  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Volume 3: Davidis - Eichendorff. 3rd, completely revised edition. Francke, Bern et al. 1971, Sp. 109-110.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 106.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 129.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 85.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Dernburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Friedrich Dernburg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the information on his tombstone , his date of birth is October 3, 1832
  2. ^ Official Directory World's Columbian Exposition
personal data
SURNAME Dernburg, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1911
Place of death Berlin