Johann Albrecht Vogtherr

Johann Albrecht Vogtherr (born April 27, 1811 in Bayreuth , † February 20, 1887 ) was a German entrepreneur, member of the Prussian state parliament and Frankfurt dialect poet .

Vogtherr was director of Frankfurter AG for Rhine and Main shipping . On January 1, 1860, he and Heinrich Bernhard Rosenthal , Leopold Sonnemann , Ludwig Braunfels and Bernhard Docter became shareholders of the Frankfurter Societäs printing company , in which the “Neue Frankfurter Zeitung. Frankfurter Handelsblatt ”, the forerunner of the Frankfurter Zeitung , appeared. Vogtherr was responsible for the "Transport" area, for which he wrote articles. In 1862 he became general director of Providentia insurance (later the Frankfurter insurance company ). When the Prussian troops marched into Frankfurt in July 1866, the Neue Frankfurter Zeitung , which was considered anti- Prussian , was banned and the editors arrested. Like the other shareholders, Vogtherr left the Societäts-Druckerei, Sonnemann became the sole owner of the newspaper and printing company. In 1871 Vogtherr became a member of the Frankfurt parliament in the Prussian state parliament in the faction of the German Progressive Party , but he resigned before the end of the legislative period .

Under the pseudonym Adolar he wrote the little dialect pieces “So be it!” (Character sketch in an elevator, 1883) and “Zwaletter in de Buche-Rind” (local sketch in an elevator, 1884), which in the Verlag C. Koenitzer in Frankfurt and were repeatedly listed in the Städtisches Theater in Frankfurt.

literature

• Selected Frankfurter Dialect poetry , Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1966, p. 269.
• History of the Frankfurter Zeitung 1856 to 1906 , Verlag der Frankfurter Zeitung, Verlag Druckerei von A. Osterrieth, 1906, p. 278.