Gustav Stengele

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Gustav Stengele (born February 14, 1861 in Berwangen ; † April 5, 1917 in Hamburg ) was a German social democratic politician, member of the Hamburg parliament and editor .

Life

Gustav Stengele was the son of a wheelwright . He attended the village school in his place of birth in Baden until he was twelve and then secondary school in Wil, Switzerland . There he got to know the great writers of the time through the teacher who was very interested in literature. During this time, his future wife also met Ida , but they did not get married until 1894. She was a classmate who was exactly as old to the day as he was and who was later to become a member of the Hamburg parliament.

At the age of 15 he came to Constance with the intention of learning the " black art ". There he met the writer Joseph Victor von Scheffel as an apprentice , who gave him new inspiration for his literary work. After his apprenticeship, Gustav Stengele went on a hike ; during this time he had to cope with the death of his father. He wandered far beyond the German-speaking borders and reached Spitzbergen .

After the wandering he settled in Bad Segeberg , where he found a job in the local newspaper's printing house. In addition to his work as a book printer, he also worked on the newspaper's editorial team. The new employee's workforce was apparently so valuable that open membership in the Social Democratic Party, which was ostracized by the socialist laws, did not cause him any problems. During this time he met Johannes Wedde , who published the socialist "Bürgerzeitung" in Hamburg . Through this contact he moved to Hamburg in 1887 and worked for the newspaper. Initially working as a typesetter again, he switched to the editorial team in October of the same year.

He wrote for the Hamburger Echo from 1898 to 1914 . For the Sunday edition he put a satirical article in verse on paper every week (“The Sunday Chats”). One of the “main enemy images” of these chats were the monarchy and Wilhelm II. Between 1914 and 1917 he was still editor of the Hamburger Echo , but no longer wrote the Sunday column. For him the war was n't the time to write anything funny. The fact that he met with his satires and that he did not shy away from conflict-prone topics is shown by the two-year prison sentence for “press offenses”.

As a delegate for the SPD, he attended many international socialist congresses and several party conventions of the SPD. He represented the SPD from 1907 to 1913 in the Hamburg parliament . Even before that, in 1887 and 1890, he was a member of the local election committee for the Hamburg constituency 2 and the central election committee. In addition, from 1890 to 1911 member of the board of the constituency organization for the Hamburg 2 constituency of the Social Democratic Party.

Honor

Street sign to Gustav Stengele in Hamburg-Horn

In Hamburg-Horn , Stengele-Strasse was named after the politician on July 16, 1929. After it was renamed by the National Socialists, it was able to bear the name Stengele again on October 25, 1945 after the Nazi dictatorship. The Stengeletwiete in the immediate vicinity was removed by new housing developments.

literature

  • Gustav Stengele . In: The True Jacob . No. 803 of April 27, 1917, p. 9254 digitized
  • Gustav Stengele: Satires and other contemporary poems. Hamburger Buchdruckerei u. Verlagsanstalt Auer, Hamburg 1924. Published posthumously , contains a selection from the chats and other poems that were published in the Hamburger Echo from 1898 to 1914. Edited and provided with a foreword by Emil Krause .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Most of the biographical information from the preface by Emil Krause (see literature)
  2. ^ He attended the party congresses in October 1890 in Halle (Saale), in September 1903 in Dresden, in September 1906 in Mannheim and in September 1911 and 1913 in Jena. See also BIOSOP
  3. ^ Biography of Gustav Stengele . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)
  4. ↑ The street names of Horner and their meaning
personal data
SURNAME Stengele, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag and editor of the Hamburger Echos
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Berwangen
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1917
Place of death Hamburg