Friedrich Hassaurek

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Friedrich Hassaurek

Friedrich Hassaurek , in the USA also Frederick Hassaurek (born October 8, 1831 in Vienna , † October 3, 1885 in Paris ) was an American journalist and diplomat.

Life

Friedrich Hassaurek attended the Piarist high school in the 8th district of Josefstadt in Vienna . As a student he took part in the Revolution of 1848 and was wounded twice as a fighter in the Academic Legion . After the failure of the Vienna October Uprising in 1848 , he emigrated to the United States of America in December 1848 as a Forty-Eighter . He settled in Cincinnati , where his mother lived, as a political journalist and was already a councilor in Cincinnati in 1851. He first worked for the Ohio State Newspaper and then founded the Hochwächter . Hassaurek also studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857.

Hassaurek emerged as an election campaigner in the election campaigns of several applicants for the office of President of the United States. As a member of the Republicans was a delegate at the 1860 nomination convention in Chicago . He became known politically in the presidential election in the United States in 1860 as an election campaigner for the later 16th President Abraham Lincoln , for whom he appeared as a determined speaker in several states. Lincoln then appointed Hassaurek as President in 1861 as diplomatic representative with the rank of Minister-Resident in Ecuador. Hassaurek thanked him for the highest office that the administration had to assign and thus alluded to the altitude of the embassy in Quito .

Announcement of a joint election event with Carl Schurz (1864)

He also took part in the 1864 campaign as an election campaigner. His time as ambassador to Ecuador until the end of 1865 he comprehensively processed in two publications. In early 1866 he returned to Cincinnati and became editor of the German-language newspaper Cincinnati Volksblatt .

In the presidential election of 1872 he was involved in the Liberal Republican Party , which was briefly split off from the Republicans in Ohio, and its presidential candidate Horace Greeley , who was defeated by incumbent Ulysses S. Grant and who died before the meeting of the electoral committee . In the presidential election in 1876 Hassaurek joined the Bourbon Democrats Samuel J. Tilden one who could less unite despite the relative majority of votes one elector on when his Republican opponent Rutherford B. Hayes , who, like Hassaurek lawyer in Cincinnati and governor of Ohio was .

Friedrich Hassaurek died of cancer in Paris in 1885 while on a trip to Europe . He was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, where his grave with his bronze bust is preserved. His written estate was acquired by the Ohio Historical Society.

Fonts

  • Four Years among the Spanish-Americans . New York 1868
  • The secret of the Andes . Robert Clarke & Company, Cincinnati 1879; Digitized (PDF), German translation by Caspar Alexander Honthumb : The secret of the Andes.

literature

  • Hassaurek, Friedrich . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 3 : Grinnell - Lockwood . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 111 (English, full text [ Wikisource ] - this source gives the date of birth deviating from October 9, 1832).
  • HA Marmer: Hassaurek, Friedrich . In: Dictionary of American Biography . Volume IV, Part 2. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1960, pp. 383-384
  • Al Benson, Walter Donald Kennedy: Lincoln's Marxists . Pelican Publishing Company, 2011, pp. 228/229
  • Daniel Nagel: From Republican Germans to German-American Republicans: A Contribution to the Change in Identity of the German Forty-Eight in the United States, 1850–1861 . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2012, p. 570

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Hassaurek  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Different year of birth: 1832
  2. ^ Albert B. Faust: The German Element in the United States , 2 volumes, Boston 1909: Houghton Mifflin, Volume 2, p. 131
  3. ↑ Figure at findagrave.com
  4. ^ Ohio Memory , signature MSS 113
predecessor Office successor
Charles R. Buckalew United States Envoy to Ecuador
July 15, 1861 - January 13, 1866 		William Turner Coggeshall
personal data
SURNAME Hassaurek, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassaurek, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1885
Place of death Paris