Georg Gottlieb Schirges

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Georg Schirges 1846

Georg Gottlieb Schirges (born March 16, 1811 in Lüneburg , † February 23, 1879 in Mannheim ) was a German pharmacist , journalist , writer , publisher and representative of the early German labor movement .

Life

Georg Schirges was the son of the tribunal procurator Georg Gottlieb Schirges and his wife Wilhelmine Georgine Dorothea, nee. Ferry de Grandrupt . He attended the Johanneum grammar school in Lüneberg, where he graduated from high school in 1829 . He completed a pharmaceutical training and worked as a pharmacist. In 1834/35 he studied philosophy and natural science at the University of Göttingen . For a while he was tutor in Mecklenburg, went to Paris , where he organized the estate of the Sanskrit researcher Antoine-Léonard de Chézy . In 1837 he was in Geneva and worked as a pharmacist and translator. During this time he met the writer August Becker , with whom he had a long friendship. Schirges also became a member of Junge Deutschland through Becker . After long trips through Italy, France and London, he returned to Lüneburg.

Schirges had lived in Hamburg since 1840 and met Karl Gutzkow , who had published the Telegraph for Germany here since 1838. From 1840 to 1842 he was editor of the Hamburg stock exchange hall , wrote for the magazine Jahreszeiten, also published in Hamburg, and was also an employee of the telegraph . From November 1843 Schirges acted as editor of the Telegraph , which was published by Hoffmann and Campe . In 1843 he married Friederike Elisabeth Amalie Louise Hildewig . The connection resulted in two children, a son and a daughter. He cultivated special friendships with the carpenter Joachim Friedrich Martens and the Altona poet Heinrich Zeise . In November 1843 he also met Heinrich Heine , who was visiting Hamburg. In No. 169 of the Telegraph (October 1844, pp. 673-674) Schirges wrote about Heine's Germany. A winter fairy tale : “The liberal moment, which is revealed in the whole of poetry, inspires respect for the poet's political sentiments; and that's not a minor matter for the moment. "

ABC-Straße 47 in Hamburg - business location of the educational association for workers 1846–1855

On December 30, 1844, Schirges was elected to the four-member board of a Hamburg workers' education association to be founded and the soul of the 1000-member association. On March 3, 1845, together with Martens and Jakob Audorf , encouraged by Wilhelm Weitling , he founded the training society for workers in Hamburg as a legal organization of the Hamburg group of the League of the Just . At a foundation festival, Schirges said: “The cold contrast between rich and poor will, as far as this is possible under slowly developing conditions, first have to be softened before a less instructive life brings people together again happily - what better means could there be to besides weakening that gap between the spirits also the other glaring and often palpable contrast between material abundance and material want - than education? Education is the great enemy of disproportions, of all injustices, complete standstill, of all prejudices ”. He was editor of the monthly magazine for workers "Die Werkstatt" from 1846 to 1847.

From June to September 1847 Martens, Schirges and others discussed the statutes and the draft program of the League of Communists , which later went down in history as the Communist Manifesto . Joseph Moll , Karl Schapper and Heinrich Bauer did not have a high opinion of Georg Schirges as a federal member: “In Hamburg, the affectionate, Christian-Germanic Schirges hangs like a lump of lead on the federation of which he is a member”.

On March 23, 1848, Schirges visited Karl August Varnhagen von Ense in Berlin and wrote a book about the March Revolution . In June 1848, together with Otto Meißner , he founded the "Meißner & Schirges publishing and assortment bookstore" , which became the sole property of Meißner on December 8, 1853.

He took part in the trade and craft congress in Frankfurt am Main and then lived in Frankfurt for a while. Here he founded the “commercial statistical institute” in 1851. From 1854 he worked in Mainz for the Rhine steamship company . In 1855 he visited the Paris World Exhibition . At the end of 1855, at Gutzkow's request, Schirges tried to found a branch of the still provisional Schiller Foundation in Mainz . In 1871 he was mentioned as "Dr. Schirges" in Mannheim. He died on February 23, 1879 in Mannheim.

As a writer and poet, Schirges had no lasting success beyond the end of his life. A biographer rated his village history in Lower Saxony, “The Bellows Step by Eilersrode”, as his best work, in which he “described the life and goings-on of a small community with truth and poetic meaning”. The book is said to have been translated into Dutch.

His brother Heinrich ( Henry ) was also known as a writer and journalist. His sister Sophie was in contact with the writer Ludmilla Assing .

Works

  • Ballads . In New Göttingen Muses Almanac. Edited by a second association . Rudolph Deuerlich, Göttingen 1832, pp. 246–247 digitized
  • A humorist leaves . Rätzer, Bern 1838
  • Waves. A collection of mixed up poems . Geneva 1840
  • Karl . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1841 Digitized Print dedication: "To his friend August Becker in Switzerland"
  • The leper from Aosta. After the French of Count Xavier de Maistre . Newly translated and reprinted for the benefit of a sick person . Printer: Heinrich Gottfried Voigt, Hamburg 1841
  • Letter from Hamburg . In: The border messengers . A German review. Edited by I. Kuranda . Second year. First semester, Leipzig 1842, p. 525 ff.
  • Hamburg after the fire. Scattered sketches . In: The border messengers. A German review. Edited by I. Kuranda . Second year. First semester, Leipzig 1842, pp. 575 ff. And 608 ff.
  • Two graves . FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1843 contains: Daily papers of an unhappy pharmacist and from the letters of two lovers . Digitized
  • Three things . In: Karl Gödeke : Novell almanac for the year 1843 . Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1842
  • Friedrich Hebbel . In: Telegraph for Germany . Hamburg, No. 154, September 1843, pp. 613-614
  • The workshop. A monthly for craftsmen. Editor: Georg Schirges . Verlag-Comptoir, Hamburg 1845–1847
  • The German workers in London collect for the Silesian weavers . [A letter to Schirges.] In: Telegraph for Germany . Hamburg, No. 165, October 1844, pp. 659-660.
  • The bellows kick from Eilersrode. Lower Saxony village history . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1845 Digitized printed dedication: “To his father the higher court procurator Dr. jur. Schirges in Lüneberg. Dedicated with love and gratitude " ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • The communists on the misfortune of the rich . In: The workshop . Hamburg 1846, vol. 2, issue 4
  • The Berlin people's uprising . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1848
  • Egeria. Paperback for pictures from folk life. With contributions by J. Lasker, AM Neidhardt, D. Ruppius, G. Schirges and H. Walden . Trewendt, Breslau 1848
  • Negotiations of the first German craft and trade congress held in Frankfurt aM from July 14th to August 18th, 1848. Edited by G. Schirges on behalf of the congress . Pabst, Darmstadt 1848
  • General German trade sheet. Founded and edited on behalf of the first German Craftsmen and Trade Congress in Frankfurt a. M by G. Schirges. Pabst, Darmstadt 1848
  • History of French theater during the first revolution. Digitized from the French des Toubin et al. Hamburg 1848 (2nd edition. Meißner & Schirges, Hamburg 1853)
  • Karl Georg Winkelblech , Georg Gottlieb Schirges: Program of the federalists with a foreword by Georg Schirges . Pabst, Darmstadt 1849
  • Association gazette for German work. Organ of the General German Association for the Protection of Patriotic Labor . Edited by Theodor Toegel and Georg Schirges. Frankfurt am Main June 9, 1849 to No. 29, 1852
  • Father and son or a penitentiary. Drama in 3 acts, based on the novel "The Two Warricks" by R. Spring . Berlin [circa 1850]
  • Annual report of the General German Association for the Protection of Patriotic Labor . Frankfurt am Main 1850
  • Economics studies . Auffarth, Frankfurt am Main 1852
  • From the past . In: Frankfurt Muses Almanac. First vintage . Edited by J. Bachmann-Korbett, H. Kothe and G. Mäurer . Lizius, Frankfurt am Main 1852, pp. 203-204 digitized
  • The second world exhibition, with a special focus on German industry. Letters from Paris . Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt a. M. 1855 Digitized printed dedication: "Mr. J. Dumas Membre le l'institute de France in Paris with the respect and devotion of the authors" ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • The river Rhine. A contribution to the knowledge of the history, trade statistics and legislation of the Rhine together with the Rhine Shipping Act of March 31, 1831. Includes all its supplementary articles, amendments, their most important regulations and instructions . Victor von Zabern, Mainz 1857 digitized
  • Development of trade and shipping on the Rhine . In: Westermann's Illustrirte Deutsche Monatshefte . Braunschweig 1857, pp. 225–230 and 346–353 digitized
  • Letters about the industry . In: Westermann's Illustrirte Deutsche Monatshefte . Braunschweig 1857, pp. 464-468, 583-587, 700-703
  • Rhenus. Yearbook for trade, shipping and industry in the Rhinelander. Edited by Georg Schirges. F. Kupferberg, Mainz 1858–59. Third year 1862 digitized ; Fourth year 1863 J. Schneider, Mannheim digitized
  • The raftsman. A Rhenish novella . F. Kupferberg, Mainz 1858 (from: Rhenus )
  • Commercial activity . In: Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Fourth volume. 2nd division. Literary-artish establishment of the JG Cotta 'sche Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, pp. 463–494 digitized

Archives and letters

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He dedicated his book to Becker: Blätter eines Humoristen with the words “To his friend Becker zum Anden [ken] from the author”. (In December 2012 offered for sale in the Antiquariat Susanne Koppel, Hamburg.)
  2. ↑ On Louise Schirges see also: Adolf Wolff: Berliner Revolutions-Chronik. Representation of the Berlin movements in 1848 according to political, social and literary relationships . Hempel, Berlin 1852, Volume 2, p. 570. Digitized
  3. ↑ Cf. Heinrich Zeise: From the life and memories of a north German poet. Reher, Altona, 1888, p. 238. Schirge's "son fell off Strasbourg, hit by a French bullet, and he was never able to overcome this loss."
  4. ^ Wieland Sachse: Joachim Friedrich Martens (1806-1877) and the German workers' movement . Göttingen 1984.
  5. ^ Heinrich Zeise: From the life and memories of a north German poet . Reher, Altona 1888, pp. 236-239.
  6. ^ Georg Schirges: Heinrich Heine in Hamburg . In: Telegraph für Deutschland , No. 1, January 1844, pp. 3-4.
  7. ^ Also printed in: Winfried Woesler: Heinrich Heine. Germany. A winter fairy tale. Written in January 1844 . Berliner Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 104.
  8. ^ Minutes of the preparatory founding meeting of the Hamburg workers' education association . In: The League of Communists. Documents and materials (1836-1849) . Vol. 1. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 59.
  9. ↑ Jürgen Bönig, in the laughing dragon, district newspaper for St. Georg, 9/2017
  10. ↑ Ulrich Bauche , Ludwig Eiber, Ursula Wamser, Wilfried Weinke (eds.): "We are the strength". Labor movement in Hamburg from the beginning until 1945 . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 21.
  11. ↑ Program for the foundation celebration of the education association for workers in Hamburg. March 5, 1848 . Hamburg 1848, p. 4. Quoted from Heinrich Laufenberg, p. 96–97.
  12. ↑ Ulrich Bauche et al. (Ed.): "We are the force." Workers' movement in Hamburg from the beginning until 1945; Catalog book for the exhibition of the Museum of Hamburg History. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 19
  13. ^ Bert Andréas (Ed.): Founding documents of the League of Communists (June to September 1847) . Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., Hamburg 1969, p. 27.
  14. ^ Letter from the central authority of the League of Communists in London to the Brussels district. October 18, 1847 . In: The League of Communists. Documents and materials (1836-1849) . Vol. 1. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 581.
  15. ↑ From the estate of Varnhagen von Ense . Edited by Ludmilla Assing. Vol. 4. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1862, p. 340. Digitized
  16. ^ The Berlin People's Uprising .
  17. ↑ Negotiations of the first German trade and industry congress held in Frankfurt a. M. from July 14 to August 18, 1848
  18. ↑ Swabian Mercury
  19. ^ Rudolf Goehler: History of the German Schiller Foundation. A. Duncker, Berlin, 1909, p. 9.
  20. ↑ VDI
  21. ^ Franz Brümmer, p. 309.
  22. ^ According to Franz Brümmer, but cannot be determined in the KVK .
  23. ^ Adventure of an emigrant to New Zealand. Two letters . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1843. China and the Chinese from Tradescant Lay. Translated from the English by Heinrich Schirges. 2 vols. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1843.
  24. ↑ Also with introduction to: Forward . Paris. No. 87 of October 30, 1844
  25. ↑ See also Friedrich Engels : The true socialists . In: Marx-Engels works . Vol. 4, p. 251.
  26. ↑ Robert Spring: The Two Warrick. Novella from American life . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1847.
personal data
SURNAME Schirges, Georg Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schirges, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist, writer and journalist. Co-founder of the Hamburg labor movement
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1879
Place of death Mannheim