Erwin Heinrich Bauer

Erwin Heinrich Bauer (pseudonyms: Lynkeus, Cassandra, Junius redivivus, Isidor Feilchenfeld; * 9 January ^July / 21 January  1857 ^greg. In Techelfer , Dorpat , Livonia ; † 9 December 1901 in Annaberg , Saxony , Germany ) was a Baltic German writer and journalist, who appeared with translations of Russian literature and his own literary works, but mainly achieved importance as a political publicist on the German-national and anti-Semitic spectrum.

Life

Bauer's father Theodor was initially authorized representative of the Baron von Wulf and administrator of his property. In 1862 he took over the Sauck estate near Pernau on a hereditary lease. The son attended high school in Pernau, studied history and Slavic languages ​​at the University of Dorpat from 1875 to 1878 and from 1878 to 1880 with a grant from the Estonian Knighthood Russian language, literature and history at the University of Moscow. In August 1880 he returned to Dorpat, where he passed the graduate examination (state examination) and took up a position as a Russian teacher at the Knight and Cathedral School in Reval . A year later he received his doctorate in Dorpat with a dissertation on the election of Mikhail Feodorowitsch Romanov as Tsar of Russia , at the same time he passed the examination for senior teacher.

After the first pseudonymous publications in the Revaler Beobachter , he joined the editorial team of the Revalsche Zeitung in 1883 and gave up his teaching position. In 1884 he founded the Nordische Rundschau , which he headed until July 1885 and was continued by Christoph Mickwitz (1885–1886) and Georg von Falck (1887–1888). In 1885 he moved to Germany and became editor of the Hamburg correspondent , as its political editor he went to Berlin in 1896 to head the editorial office there until 1889. In October 1890 he founded the monthly Das Twentyth Century , initially published by Hans Lüstenöder , which he headed from October 1890 to March 1893, and was headed by Fritz Lienhard (1893/94) and Heinrich Mann ( 1895–1895– ) after his return to Lüstenöder. 1896) took over.

In November 1890, Bauer moved to Jena and finally to Leipzig in 1891 . On July 1, 1891, he was first editor-in-chief of the Leipziger Tages-Anzeiger , the organ of the anti-Semitic German Social Reform Association founded by Theodor Fritsch in Leipzig in 1884, which aims to restrict the rights of Jews - “the harmful influence of Hebrewism break, in short: to push through anti-Semitic legislation ”- had set the goal, but in contrast to the German Reform Association founded by Alexander Pinkert in Dresden in 1879, this was not on the parliamentary path of founding an anti-Semitic party, but on the path of ideological penetration of all political parties Parties, denominations and strata of society aspired to.

The appeal Bauers took place in connection with the acquisition of the previously laid Fritzsch Tages-Anzeiger by William Wauer and the change of name under the name New German newspaper . In 1892 Bauer acquired the paper and published it in a newly founded own publishing house, to which he also took over Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert . During this time, Bauer played a major role in the anti-Semitic agitation of the Xanten ritual murder allegations and in the journalistic attacks against Gerson von Bleichröder on the occasion of his trials against a former lover. In the affair of Carl Paasch , a German businessman in China who believed he had been betrayed by the ambassador there and wanted to denounce the unsuccessful demarches of his demarches to the German government as the work of a Jewish conspiracy in several publications, Bauer was so involved in journalism that he became involved in September 1892 had to answer in court for insults from Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and Prussian Finance Minister Johannes von Miquel .

In 1893 Bauer temporarily belonged to the Saxon state board of the German Social Party , but fell out with it because he was accused of campaigning for the rival German Conservative Party instead and receiving financial support for his troubled publishing house. Probably because of these financial difficulties, he had already returned the rights for The Twentieth Century to the Berlin publisher Hans Lüstenöder in the spring of 1893 . As a result of the rift with the German social, Bauer resigned from the party; on January 31, 1894, his Neue Deutsche Zeitung ceased publication.

In 1894 he published the weekly Neuland again for a few months and then lived as a freelance author in Leipzig until he moved to Annaberg in 1900 and took over the editing of the Annaberger Wochenblatt there .

Fonts

stories

• Simple stories. Novellas . B. Elischer successor, Leipzig 1891.
• The suicide of the Mergenthin lieutenant. Novella . 2nd edition Ludwig Hamann, Leipzig 1896.

Novels

• From the tsarist country. Characters and stories; Novel . Deubner, Berlin 1887.
• Around the tsar's crown. Novel . B. Elischer Successor, Leipzig 1901 (former title: Aut Caesar, aut Nihil! Historical novel from contemporary Russia ).

Plays

• Paragraph 263. Comedy in four acts . Dec publishing house, Berlin 1888.
• The son of the councilor of commerce. Comedy in five acts . 2nd edition. Verlag Hans Lüstenöder, Berlin 1889.
• The worst thing. Comedy . without local call. 1896.

Non-fiction

• On the edge of the abyss. Against social democracy and anarchism. A warning to the princes and peoples of Lynkeus . 4th edition Elischer Verlag, Leipzig 1895.
• From the days of the nihilist danger. Memories and experiences . 2nd edition Verlag R. Friese, Leipzig 1901.
• Caveat populus! German people, be on your guard! Against the "new course" . Reinhold Werther publishing house, Leipzig 1892.
• England and the German Empire. A settlement at the turn of the century . Leipzig 1900.
• The Bleichröder case . Lecture given on September 17, 1891 in the Concerthaus Battenberg in Leipzig . Germanicus-Verlag G. Uhl, Leipzig 1891.
• The danger in the east. Contributions to the recent history of Russia and to the assessment of Russian politics . 2nd edition. Verlag J. Räde, Berlin 1896.
• Count Caprivi and the Conservatives. A word about the trade agreement negotiations in the Reichstag . 2nd edition. Verlag Reinhold Werther, Leipzig 1894.
• The literary Berlin (1887-1892). Frank letters to the banker Itzig Teiteles in Posen from Dr. Isidor Feilchenfeld. Edited by Erwin Bauer (Aus der Mischpoke, Vol. 1). 3rd edition. Verlag Reinhold Werther, Münden in Hannover 1897 (no more published).
• Naturalism , nihilism , idealism in Russian poetry. Literary, historical and critical forays . Hans Lüstenöder Verlag, Berlin 1890
• "Our English Friends". A German answer to English insolence . Leipzig 1895.
• Russian students. A contribution to the history of the revolutionary movement in Russia . New edition Graser, Annaberg 1906.
• Russia at a crossroads. Contributions to the knowledge of Slavophilism and to the judgment of its politics. Richard Wilhelmi Verlag, Berlin 1888
• The sensational case of Carl Paasch. Lecture given at the people's assembly held in Leipzig on Thursday, August 13, 1891, convened by the Leipzig German Social Reform Association . Leipziger Tages-Anzeiger, Leipzig 1891.
• The fall of the anti-Semitic parties. A warning to the national movement in the German Empire from an old anti-Semite . 1st - 3rd Edition GA Müller, Leipzig 1895.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the parish of St. Mary in Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu Maarja kogudus)
2. ↑ On the Leipzig Reform Association, see Massimo Ferrari Zumbini, The roots of evil: Founding years of anti-Semitism from the Bismarckian era to Hitler , Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 2003 (= Das Abendland, NF 32), p. 365ff.
3. ↑ Theodor Fritzsch from retrospect in an article from March 1912, quoted by Ferrari Zumbini, p. 367.
4. ↑ On the Paasch affair see Barnet Peretz Hartston, Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Anti-semitic Trials And the Press in the Early German Empire , Brill, Leiden 2005 (= Studies in Central European Histories, 39), p. 225ff.

literature

• Franz Brümmer: Entry farmer, Erwin Heinrich . In: Anton Bettelheim (ed.), Biographisches Jahrbuch und deutscher Nekrolog , VI. Volume, January 1 to December 31, 1901, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1904, pp. 228–229 (the yearbook is partly based on personal information from those listed.)
• Stefan Breuer: The “Twentieth Century” and the Mann brothers . In: Manfred Dierks and Ruprecht Wimmer (eds.), Thomas Mann and Judaism. The lectures of the Berlin Colloquium of the German Thomas Mann Society , Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 2004 (= Thomas Mann Studies, 30), pp. 75–95 (on Bauer especially p. 79 f.)
• Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. P. 171f. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Erwin Heinrich Bauer. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital