Guido Weiss (journalist)
Konrad Rudolf Guido Weiss (born August 18, 1822 in Neumarkt ( Silesia ); † January 15, 1899 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a democratically oriented journalist and physician.
Life
He came from a Jewish family. The father was a well-known doctor at the time. Even Guido Weiss studied in Breslau and Heidelberg medicine and graduated in 1844 in Berlin to Dr. med. Because he was suspected of revolutionary activities, he was imprisoned. This ended his medical career.
After the revolution of 1848/49 he turned to journalism. In the reaction era he was the parliamentary reporter for the Vossische Zeitung . During the time of the Prussian constitutional conflict , he was editor-in-chief of the opposition "Berlin Reform". On May 3, 1856, he was elected a member (matriculation no. 1768) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Cnöffel . In 1866 he moved to the Frankfurter Zeitung as editor-in-chief . A short time later he returned to Berlin and took over the new newspaper “ Die Zukunft ”. He wanted to turn it into a nationally important democratic-liberal daily newspaper. During this time, Franz Mehring learned the journalistic trade at Weiss. Mehring later described the future as the most honest and witty, but also as the least-read bourgeois newspaper, and concluded that the newspaper therefore had to be discontinued.
After 1870 he was responsible for foreign policy in the Frankfurter Zeitung. Politically he was also close to the editor of the paper Leopold Sonnemann . From 1883 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper " Die Wage ". He was imprisoned several times for a criminal offense. He later lived as a freelance writer in Frankfurt am Main. Among other things, he wrote for the political section and the features section of the Frankfurter Zeitung.
Politically, he was close to his friends Johann Jacoby and Franz Ziegler . Between 1869 and 1870 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for Frankfurt am Main . He was elected as a representative of the anti-Prussian democratic party in the city, but was voted out again in the elections in November 1870 because parts of the property bourgeoisie were drawing closer to Prussia.
In his last years he was blind. After his death, the Frankfurt City and University Library bought a large part of his library .
His daughter Magarete (1852–1889) married Josef Stern in 1878 .
Works
- ( anonymous ): For Johann Jacoby ! After a speech in Berlin's 2nd constituency on May 12, 1862 . o. O. and o. J.
- Ed .: Die Wage. Weekly journal for politics and literature . G. Weiss, Berlin 1873-1879. ISSN 2568-3861 year 1875 digitized year 1877 digitized
literature
- Ernest Hamburger : Jews in Public Life Germany. Tübingen, 1968 p. 229 f.
- Thomas Höhle : Franz Mehring, His way to Marxism. 1869-1891 . 2. verb. u. exp. Aufl. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1958. Especially pp. 45–50.
- Franz Mehring : Two obituaries . In: The New Time . 17th vol. 1. 1899, issue 18, pp. 545-548. Digitized
- Obituary . In: Frankfurter Jahrbuch . 1899 p. 141 f. Digitized
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 282 (archive.org)
- Sigmund Schott : Weiss, Guido . In: Anton Bettelheim (Ed.): Deutscher Nekrolog , Berlin 1903, Vol. 5, pp. 436–437. Digitized
- Birgit Weyel : Weiss, Konrad Richard Guido . In: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 546 f .
Web links
- Member entry of Konrad Rudolf Guido Weiss in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Individual evidence
- ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 408 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
- ^ Author determined according to Edmund Silberner : Johann Jacoby. Politician and man . Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1976, p. 307.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weiss, Guido |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weiß, Konrad Rudolf Guido (full name); White, Guido |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1822 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Neumarkt Silesia |
DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1899 |
Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |