Hermann Püttmann

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Hermann Püttmann (born August 12, 1811 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ); † December 24, 1874 in Richmond , Australia ) was a German democratic and socialist publicist , publisher , journalist and art critic of the Vormärz , who was a co-founder of the German-language press in Australia applies.

Life

The son of a small textile entrepreneur was born in Elberfeld in 1811. After attending the city ​​high school , he studied philosophy in Freiburg in 1831/32 . As early as 1834 he married Fanny Maurenbrecher (1812-1893) in Elberfeld. The marriage was to have ten children by 1851. Between 1837/38 and 1839 he worked as an editorial assistant for the Barmer Zeitung .

At that time he was counted as a member of the little circle around Ferdinand Freiligrath . He subsequently published various books on the regional art scene in the Rhineland , such as As the Düsseldorf School , which by critics as well as his numerous reviews and miscellanea to art exhibitions, which he always under the symbol P. were well received published.

Wilhelm Langewiesche , like Püttmann a member of the Freiligrath-Kränzchen, published Püttmann's two-volume work on the English poet Thomas Chatterton a year later . In general, he was particularly literary success in these years: While he followed his usual theme with “Art treasures and monuments on the Rhine”, the collection of his “Circassian songs”, which thematized the Circassian struggle for independence against the Tsarist empire , was quite unusual.

In the first half of 1841 the family moved to Cologne . From 1842 to the end of 1844, Püttmann worked for the Kölnische Zeitung as an editor of the features section .

During these years he emerged as the editor of various magazines on early socialism . The emigration to Switzerland in 1845 was only to be a three-year interlude. In the meantime he was deported from Zurich to Kreuzlingen . After his return he was editor of the first workers newspaper in Wuppertal until April 1850: “Der Volksmann”. After multiple investigations by the Elberfeld Police Department, the newspaper had to stop working.

In order to help him out of unemployment, the equally art-interested Elberfeld dignitaries appointed him full-time manager of the permanent Elberfeld-Barmer art exhibition in 1851/52 . Since in the meantime the obvious assessment of Püttmann as a "resolute supporter of the revolutionary party" had become too difficult for the equipment committee, Püttmann was dismissed in the summer of 1853.

In June 1853, Hermann Püttmann received a passport to England , where he emigrated with his family. There he worked as an assistant librarian for Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace . Nevertheless, he remained in great financial difficulties, from which even Gottfried Kinkel could not help him.

In 1854 the extended family decided to emigrate to Australia, where he is still considered the successful founder of the local German-language press in Melbourne , which was also promoted in memory by his son Hermann W. Püttmann.

Püttmann died 20 years later on Christmas Eve 1874 in Richmond, Australia.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its achievements since the establishment of the Kunstverein in 1829. A contribution to modern art history . Otto Wigand: Leipzig 1839 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Chatterton , Barmen 1840
  • Circassian songs , Hoffmann & Campe. Hamburg 1841 [1]
  • Dithmarschen songs , 1842
  • Art treasures and monuments on the Rhine , Mainz 1843
  • Nordic fairy tales and songs , Friedrich Fleischer. Leipzig 1844 [2]
  • German Citizens Register for 1845 , Darmstadt 1844. ( Digitized edition on Archive.org )
  • German civil register for 1846 , Darmstadt 1845
  • Ludwig Gall, from: Deutsches Bürgerbuch für 1846 (Mannheim, 1846) , in: Fritz Brügel , Benedikt Kautsky (Hrsg.): The German socialism from Ludwig Gall to Karl Marx . Hess & Co., Vienna 1931, pp. 21-30
  • Rhenish yearbooks on social reform . First volume. CW Leske, Darmstadt 1845 [3]
  • Poems . Bellevue near Constance 1845
  • Rhenish yearbooks on social reform . Second volume. Publishing bookstore, Belle-Vue, at Constanz 1846 [4]
  • Poems . First complete edition, Herisau 1846 [5]
  • Album . Albrecht Reiche, Borna 1847 [6]
  • Socialist songbook . Second edition. JCJ Raabé & Cie Kassel 1851 [7]

See also

literature

  • Wolfgang Mönke : Hermann Püttmann . In: Biographical Lexicon on German History . From the beginning until 1917. Ed. By Karl Obermann u. a. Berlin 1967, pp. 381-384.
  • Arnold Maurer: Hermann Püttmann's grave discovered in Australia . In: Communications from the City Archives, the Historical Center and the Bergisches Geschichtsverein - Wuppertal Department . 11th year, issue 1, Wuppertal 1986, pp. 51–54.
  • Hans Pelger: Document of a literary opposition in Germany . In: German Citizens Register for 1845. CW Leske, Cologne 1975.
  • Herbert A. Pogt: Hermann Püttmann. Miszellaneen for art criticism in the Vormärz. Atalas-Verlag, Münster 1980.
  • Kurt Schnöring: Hermann Püttmann 1811–1874. In: Wuppertal biographies . 11th episode, Born, Wuppertal 1973, pp. 71-74.
  • Püttmann, Hermann . In: The Cologne author lexicon . Vol. 1 1750-1900 . Emons, Cologne 2000 ISBN 3-89705-194-X , p. 181 (with bibliography)

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Püttmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Heidermann : Wuppertal on the way to becoming an art city - a bold attempt fails; in: Romerike Berge, 51 vol. 1, 2001, p. 6.
  2. ^ Hermann Püttmann: A Forty-Eighter in Australia ", in: L. Bodie, S. Jeffries (eds), The German Connection, Sesquicentenary Essays on German-Victorian Crosscurrents 1835–1985 (German Department, Monash University, 1985)
  3. ^ Hermann W. Püttmann: In the foreign. Seals, McCarron, Bird & Co: Melbourne 1907, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Püttmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German democratic and socialist publicist, editor, journalist and art critic of the Vormärz
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1874
Place of death Richmond , Australia