Johannes Wedde

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Johannes Wedde. Photograph by Georg Wolf, 1878

Friedrich Christoph Johannes Wedde (born January 15, 1843 in Uelzen , † January 13, 1890 in Lübeck ) was a German poet , member of the Social Democratic Labor Party and journalist .

Life

Johannes Wedde was the son of the cloth manufacturer Friedrich August Louis Wedde and his wife Marie Margarethe Ide in what was then the Kingdom of Hanover . After the father could not keep his company, the family first moved to Hanover and in 1851 to Hamburg. Here his father founded the company L. Wedde & Co. , a wallpaper factory and wallpaper trade. Wedde attended the Johanneum until he graduated from high school. On April 30, 1862, he began studying law in Heidelberg . He then studied in Göttingen and Berlin , where he dealt with history and political science. His poor health and the financial circumstances of his family forced him to give up an academic career in 1864. Wedde was a teacher at private schools in Hamburg (1867–1879). At the same time he worked as a theater critic for the Hamburg news of Emil Meyer hard working, in which he talks about the performances of the Hamburg City Theater reported. After he gave up his job as a teacher, he lost almost all of his belongings in a fire. For some time he lived in the Sachsenwald to relax.

From 1872 Wedde was a member of the Socialist German Workers' Party, the so-called Eisenachern. Wedde only became publicly active after the Socialist Act came into force . JHW Dietz suggested Wedde, after two newspapers in Hamburg had already been banned under the Socialist Act, to found the Hamburg “Citizens Newspaper” and to run it as editor. On July 2, 1885, a Democratic Association was founded in Hamburg , which was to form a democratic party throughout the Reich . The program was about the repeal of all exceptional laws and the introduction of a normal working day . At the first party congress in Hamburg on September 13, 1885, when only 25 delegates were present, Wedde gave up the plan to join the party. Until his expulsion on October 12, 1887, he was able to hold the newspaper. August Bebel was one of the authors of the “Bürgerzeitung” .

With his collection of poems, Greetings from the Future , he encouraged the workers to defend themselves against the Bismarck State. In the poem Zum Gedächtnis (1875) he paid tribute to the Paris Commune of 1871. He dedicated the poem Korinthiaka to the young Wilhelm Blos . In Under the Exceptional Law , which had also appeared in The Social Democrat , he turned against the Prince of Friedrichruh . After Wedde had been driven out of Hamburg by the imposition of the small state of siege, he moved to the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Wedde was editor and publisher for Hamburger Echo .

Wedde wrote a little book about Theodor Storm which he also sent to the poet. Theodor Storm thanked him with a letter dated May 15, 1888. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution , a congress to found the Second International took place in Paris from July 14 to 20, 1889 . Wedde was next to August Bebel, Wilhelm Liebknecht , Karl Frohme , Hermann Molkenbuhr , Karl Pinkau and Carl Legien u. a. one of the German delegates.

Due to influenza , Wedde died on the night of January 12th to 13th, 1890. After his death he was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg. More than 25,000 hamburgers followed his coffin. On behalf of the SPD parliamentary group in the Reichstag, Karl Frohme gave the funeral speech and Wilhelm Blos the one on behalf of the Hamburg comrades.

Quote

"That is another blow with the suppression of the" Bürger-Zeitung "and, as I read today, the editor Wedde expelled. That is unheard of. When we were there, nobody thought of it, they were of the opinion that they should only edit the paper in a democratic sense, which was the case. The business was cheap, a new building, which was still in the process of being remodeled, now everything destroyed in one fell swoop, and poor Wedde, a die-hard hamburger born there, who is attached to it with every fiber. It is absolutely horrific how many existences are destroyed as a result. What are they going to find out to destroy social democracy? "

- quoted from August Bebel to Natalie Liebknecht September 12, 1887.

Honors

He is the namesake of Weddestrasse in Hamburg-Horn .

Works

Honoring the fighters against the Socialist Law of 1890. Johannes Wedde above, second from left
  • Lilith . The solution to the world riddle was divulged by the youth of Sais . Lührsen, Hamburg 1867
  • Songs of a Patreyka . Hermann Grüning, Hamburg 1869
  • Belief and unbelief. A pamphlet on the ecclesiastical question by H. Wagner and J. Wedde. Hermann Grüning, Hamburg 1870
  • Miscelles from the Sachsenwalde . In: Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research , born in 1875. Verlag von J. Kühtmann's Buchhandlung. UL Fr. Kirchhof, Bremen 1876, pp. 101-104
  • The drama of the Roman Empire of the German Nation. A national seal from Barbarossa 's time. Translated for the first time . Gradener, Hamburg 1878
  • Dramaturgical sparks. Hamburg theater reports 1876–1879 . Hermann Grüning, Hamburg 1880
  • Shakespeare 's "Merchant of Venice" . 1880
  • Edmund Hoefer : Coastal trips on the North and Baltic Seas. Described by Edmund Hoefer, in connection with M. Lindeman, L. Passarte, O. Rüdiger, J. Wedde. Illustrated by Gustav Schönleber, in connection with H. Haisch, H. Bartels, E. Bracht, U. Gehrts, H. Knorr, G. Kühl, L. Ritter and others. Kröner, Stuttgart 1880–1881
  • Citizen newspaper . Red. Joh. Wedde. Hamburg from April 17, 1881 to No. 220 from September 18, 1887
  • Johann Friedrich Voigt ; J. Wedde: Concerns about the plans for the connection of the city of Hamburg to the customs area. Special print from the citizen newspaper . Commissioned by W. Mauke Sons , Hamburg 1882
  • Illustrated Sunday supplement of the citizen newspaper . Red. Joh. Wedde, Hamburg 1884–1887
  • Greetings from the future. Poems by a democratic editor in the new German Reich . Johannes Wedde publishing house, Hamburg 1884
  • From the feature section of the “Bürgerzeitung”, April - June 1884 . Johannes Wedde publishing house, Hamburg 1885
  • Greetings from the future. Poems by a democratic editor in the new German empire . 2nd edition with explanations. JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1885
  • The old Lübeck. Images from the culture and history of Lübeck up to the beginning of the 17th century. compiled by Theodor Schwartz . Edited by Johannes Wedde. Johannes Wedde publishing house, Hamburg 1887
  • Jürgen Wullenwever , Mayor of Lübeck. Born in Hamburg in 1493, beheaded near Wolfenbüttel in 1537. Commemorative sheet commemorating the 350th anniversary of his death on September 27, 1887 . Johannes Wedde, Hamburg 1887
  • Theophilus . The Faust drama of the German Middle Ages translated and provided with an explanatory introduction. Hermann Grüning, Hamburg 1887
  • Theodor Storm. Some features of his image . Hermann Grüning, Hamburg 1888
  • Collected Works . 2 volumes. Hermann Grüning, Hamburg 1894
  • Poems. A selection from the collected works With an introduction by Walter Hübbe . Alfred Janssen Verlag, Hamburg 1903
  • Freedom and its suitors. Basics of a monistic religion of the future (from the 2nd volume of the collected works, edited separately by Walter Hübbe). Janssen, Hamburg 1907
  • Lilith. Chants. Posthumous work . Alfred Janssen Verlag, Hamburg 1910

literature

  • Theodora Wedde: Johannes Wedde. Memorial sheets from his sister . Hermann Grüning, Hamburg 1891.
  • How did Johannes Wedde come to social democracy? Hermann Grüning, Hamburg 1894. Digitized
  • Albert Steck: Johannes Wedde. A literary study . Hermann Grüning, Hamburg 1896; Text archive - Internet Archive
  • Hermann Arthur Lier :  Wedde, Friedrich Christoph Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 386 f.
  • Johannes Hermann Müller: The social democrat Johannes Wedde as a literary greatness . Alfred Janssen Verlag, Hamburg 1901. ( Digitized  in the German Digital Library )
  • G. Wenst: Johannes Wedde . In: The pilot. Hamburg weekly for German culture . 2 Jg. Alfred Janssen Verlag, Hamburg 1902.
  • Ernst Kreowski : Johannes Wedde as a poet . In: The New Time . Weekly of the German Social Democracy. 22.1903-1904, Volume 1 (1904), Issue 24, pp. 771-773. fes.de
  • Johannes Wedde . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Volume I: Deceased Personalities . JHW Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, pp. 321–322.
  • Wedde, Johannes . In: Lexicon of socialist German writers . Leipzig 1964, pp. 522-524.
  • Angelika Voss-Louis: Hamburg's labor movement in the change of society. A chronicle . Volume 1: 1842 to 1890 . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1987. ( Hamburg contributions to social and contemporary history . Supplement 3) ISBN 3-7672-1008-8
  • Christiane Teetz: Otto Stolten and the social democracy in Hamburg until the end of the imperial era . LIT, Münster 2004. (= Publications of the Hamburg Working Group for Regional History 17) (Hamburg, Univ., FB Sozialwiss., Diss., 2001) ISBN 3-8258-6502-9

estate

  • State and University Library Hamburg Wedde estate. Scope: 7 archive boxes
  • Schleswig-Holstein State Library Kiel Theodor Storm estate Zg-Nr: 8/1938
  • Bürger-Zeitung. Ed .: Johannes Wedde. 7 (1887): no.218 (17/9), 2nd suppl. to no.219 (18/9) IISG signature ZF 50702
  • Sunday messengers for town and country. Weekly edition of the Hamburger Bürger- Zeitung. Ed. Johannes Wedde. 2 (1886): no.24.40-41.44.46; (1887): no.4,7-9,11-12 IISG signature: ZF 51829.x
  • IISG. Gustav Mayer Papers 156: Johannes Wedde to Engels October 28, 1886, May 19, 1887, June 19, 1887, July 9, 1887
  • IISG. (SPD) BG A14 / 979: Photography Johannes Wedde, Georg Wolf & Co., Hamburg
  • IISG. (SPD) BG A14 / 980: Photography Mrs. Wedde and daughter, Georg Wolf & Co., Hamburg
  • IISG Marx-Engels estate L6232, L6233, L6234, L 6235 Johannes Wedde to Friedrich Engels April 28, 1886; May 14, 1887, June 9, 1887; July 9, 1887

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church book St. Marien, Uelzen. Baptized February 20, 1843.
  2. ↑ Hamburg address book from 1853; later Wedde & Wangemann .
  3. ↑ Wedde was only recorded in the "Directory of Students" in Berlin in the winter semester 1863/64 Schiffbauerdamm 16 and in the summer semester 1864 Kalkscheuen 3 . "Phil." Was entered as the faculty in both semesters.
  4. ↑ Dramaturgical Spähne. Hamburg theater reports 1876 - 1879 .
  5. ^ The newspaper appeared on April 17, 1881 and was banned on September 20, 1887. Angelika Voss-Louis, pp. 196 and 212.
  6. ↑ Angelika Voss-Louis, p. 207.
  7. ↑ Wedde, J. Writer, ed. u. Editor d. "Citizens' newspaper" u. Book printing, large bleaching 65 a H. 1, living. St. P. Sternstrasse 121 . In: Hamburger Adressbuch 1887, p. 422
  8. ↑ August and Julie Bebel . Letters of a marriage . Edited by Ursula Hermann, Bonn 1997, p. 382.
  9. ↑ What is meant is Otto von Bismarck.
  10. ↑ Ulrich Bauche ; Ludwig Eiber , Ursula Wamser; Wilfried Weinke (Ed.): "We are the power". Labor movement in Hamburg from its beginnings to 1945. Catalog book for the exhibitions of the Museum of Hamburg History . VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 39 ff.
  11. ^ Theodor Storm. Some features of his image
  12. ↑ Uwe Carstens: Dear friend Ferdinand. The remarkable friendship between Theodor Storm and Ferdinand Tönnies . Norderstedt 2008, p. 69.
  13. ↑ Angelika Voss-Louis, p. 217.
  14. ↑ Gustav Radbruch. Biographical writings . Edited by Günter Spendel. CF Müller, Heidelberg 1988, p. 412.
  15. ^ Heinrich Laufenberg : History of the Hamburg workers' movement . Hamburg 1931. p. 97
  16. ↑ Angela Graf: JHW Dietz . Bonn 1998, p. 190.
  17. ^ Dictionary of persons . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 54 .
  18. ↑ August and Julie Bebel. Letters of a marriage . P. 632.
  19. ↑ Berlin SAPMO -BArch ZDB-ID: 594943-9.
  20. ↑ IISG signature: D 1036/1.
  21. ↑ also referred to as the "Hamburger Bürger-Zeitung".
personal data
SURNAME Wedde, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedde, Friedrich Christoph Johannes (full name); Silvanus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and theorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Uelzen
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1890
Place of death Lübeck