Konrad Hollinger

Konrad Hollinger (born November 26, 1815 in Waldshut ; † March 26, 1870 in Newark (New Jersey) ) was a German printer , publisher, political writer and publicist of the radical democratic movement that followed the failed March Revolution of 1848/49 in the Grand Duchy of Baden emigrated to North America.

Life

Konrad Hollinger was born in Waldshut in 1815 as the son of an impoverished writer . Like his brother Fidel , the city's hospital fund made it possible for him to do an apprenticeship as a printer at the publishing house of the bookseller Wagner in Freiburg im Breisgau after graduating from high school . After completing his apprenticeship, Konrad Hollinger took up a position as a legal assistant in Waldshut. As a sideline, he wrote pamphlets and newspaper articles in opposition to the politics of the reactionary Baden minister, Blittersdorf . Following a request submitted in March 1841, the Hollinger brothers opened a publishing house in the Swiss municipality of Jüppen , with which they moved to Großlaufenburg at the beginning of July . The political magazine “Rheinbote”, which they published to circumvent the Baden censorship in Switzerland , represented radical democratic positions and was aimed at a Baden readership.

From 1842 onwards, Konrad Hollinger wrote political pamphlets under the pseudonym of "Altvogtes Andres", none of which were printed by the Hollinger brothers' publishing house (around 300 copies). The writings were smuggled to Baden and could be sold quickly. In 1846 “Drei neue Lieder” was published by Altvogt Andres under the title “Baden's Spring”. In contrast to his brother Fidel, who moved to Switzerland, Konrad Hollinger stayed in Waldshut. Because of repeated comments critical of the government, he was under surveillance by the authorities. In April 1848 Konrad Hollinger took an active part in the armed Weißhaar platoon, which had left Lottstetten to support the pre-March revolution , but had already been disbanded in Wehr . For this commitment, Konrad Hollinger received a prison sentence of 133 days, which he served in Bruchsal. Konrad Hollinger processed this experience in his volume of poems "Kerkerblüthen" from Bruchsal, published by Ferdinand Förderer (1814–1889) in Villingen.

In June 1849 Konrad Hollinger ran unsuccessfully in the fourth constituency for the revolutionary state committee in Karlsruhe . He was defeated by the Waldshut lawyer Gerwas Torrent .

After the failure of the March Revolution, Konrad Hollinger emigrated with his wife Josepha and their five children via Switzerland to the United States of North America in July 1850 and settled in Newark in the state of New Jersey, which has a population of about 12.5% ​​of German descent. would have. From 1851 Konrad (now Conrad Hollinger) published the weekly newspaper “Der Nachbar” in German. In 1856 the "New Jersey People's Man" followed, which quickly increased in circulation and appeared daily until 1875. With his newspapers, Konrad Hollinger supported the Democratic Party , which the immigrants saw themselves represented by. In May 1865 Hollinger was shot by a certain Conrad Briner. Conrad Hollinger died in Newark in 1870 as a respected and successful German-American newspaper publisher.

Publications by Konrad Hollinger

• The Rheinbote , from 1841 in Full-Jüppen to 1843 in Großlaufenburg
• Former Bailiff Andres and the Badische Volkskammer in 1842: a Black Forest pub scene , Hollinger'sche Officin , Großlaufenburg, 1842, 12 pp.
• History of the Baden state parliament from 1842. Narrated in a Black Forest village tavern , Hollinger'sche Officin, Großlaufenburg, 1842, 46 pp.
• The Baden constitutional document. Explicitly and edited into a people's book by Altvogt Andres , Hollinger'sche Officin, Großlaufenburg, 1843, 46 pp.
• Baden's spring 1846: three new songs by Altvogt Andres , 1846, 14 pp.
• Dungeon flowers from Bruchsal , Förderer, Villingen, 1848, VII, 48 p. ( Digitized version )
• Former Bailiff Andres and his German-Catholic community. A Black Forest village history , Förderer, Villingen, 1848, VI, 61 pp.
• The Neighbor , weekly magazine in German from 1851 in Newark, New Jersey
• Der New Jersey Volksmann , weekly newspaper then daily newspaper in German from 1856 until death in 1870 in Newark, New Jersey

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary to Conrad Hollinger, in the Alb-Boten Waldhut from April 30, 1870.
2. ↑ Hans-Gustav Keller, Werner Näf: The political publishing houses and printing works in Switzerland 1840-1848 , Topos Verlag, 1977, p. 112.
3. ↑ A. Weiss: Waldshut and its citizens from the transition to Baden to the revolution of 1848/49 in: Geschichte der Stadt Waldshut , Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg, Volume 2, p. 42.
4. ^ Books, pamphlets and newspapers printed at Newark, New Jersey, 1776-1900 , Private press of Courier-Citizen company, 1902, p. 346.
5. ^ A. Siegel: For the glory of the Union: myth, reality, and the media in Civil War New Jersey . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984, p. 45.
6. ↑ The New York Times , General News, May 8, 1865.

literature

• A. Weiss: Waldshut and its citizens from the transition to Baden to the revolution of 1848/49 in: History of the city of Waldshut . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg, Volume 2, p. 39f.
• Hans-Gustav Keller, Werner Näf: The political publishing houses and printing works in Switzerland 1840-1848 , Topos Verlag, 1977, p. 111ff.
• Heinrich Raab: Revolutionaries in Baden 1848/49. Biographical inventory for the sources in the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe and in the Staatsarchiv Freiburg . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1998, p. 415.