Heinrich Loges

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Henry Loges (* 20th November 1843 ; † 29. October 1885 in Hannover ) was a German bookseller, a Social Democrat , magazines - editor and - Publisher and at the time of socialist laws "employees in the illegal distribution system " of the journal Social Democrat .

Live and act

Gravestone on the Lindener Bergfriedhof , u. a. with an inscription by the comrades from the “8. Hanover constituency "

Born at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , Heinrich Loges worked as an independent bookseller in Hanover. After the proclamation of the German Empire Loges lived at Deisterstrasse 29 in Linden , where he illegally distributed the magazine Der Sozialdemokrat at the time of the persecution of the Socialists .

At the same time, Heinrich Loges was also editor and publisher of the magazine Haus und Welt published by the Linden Social Democrats .

When Loges died in 1885 - in the same year Linden, the former “largest village in Prussia ”, received city ​​rights and had long since risen to become an industrial city - around 4,500 Social Democrats attended the funeral at the Linden mountain cemetery , according to a report by the police chief at the time . At the same time, the police chief had also ordered that "no speeches may be given at the funeral".

Of solidarity put the Lindener, according to the grave stone - inscription especially the "Social Democrats of 8. Hanover constituency ," her comrades later a special stone near the kitchen garden pavilion . The stone shows, among other things, a relief with a flag and a cross.

literature

  • Hans Werner Dannowski : Hanover - far from close. Out and about in districts. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-653-4 , p. 100; online through google books .
  • Jonny Peter, Ulf Kronshage: grave of Heinrich Loges. In: Der Lindener Bergfriedhof (= district series "Rundgangs" , volume 3), publisher: Quartier eV, Hannover 2012, p. 41f.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Loges  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Compare the inscription on the tombstone on Lindener Berg
  2. ↑ a b c d Horst Bartel, Rolf Dlubek u. a. (Ed.): Selected speeches and writings. August Bebel , Vol. 2, Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED. Central Institute for History at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Berlin: Dietz, 1978, p. 10, 632; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Hans Werner Dannowski: Hanover - far from near ... (see literature)
  4. ^ A b Peter Schulze : Lindener Berg district cemetery. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 593f.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 406ff.
personal data
SURNAME Loges, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and social democratic newspaper editor at the time of the socialist persecution
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1843
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1885
Place of death Hanover