Louis Viereck

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Louis Viereck (1870)

Louis Viereck (born March 21, 1851 in Berlin , † September 6, 1922 in Bad Wildungen ) was a German social democratic politician, journalist and naturopath.

Life

Viereck was the son of the royal court actress Edwina Viereck and (presumably) an illegitimate son of the future Emperor Wilhelm I. After attending a grammar school in Berlin, he studied medicine at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1869 . He became a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg . On January 22, 1870 he was reciprocated . He took part in the Franco-German War in the medical service. He then studied law and political science at the Friedrich Wilhelms University . There he also joined the Corps Normannia Berlin . He was a trainee lawyer in Eberswalde , Frankfurt (Oder) and at the Supreme Court , but remained without a degree.

In 1877 Viereck joined the Socialist Workers' Party and from 1878 worked as a writer and journalist, primarily for social democratic papers such as the Berlin Free Press , the Berliner Nachrichten and the Future . In February 1879 he was expelled from Berlin under the Socialist Act and lived in Leipzig . There he was managing director of the association printing company . Between November 1880 and 1881 he made an agitation trip through the USA with Julius Vahlteich to collect donations for the illegal party.

In 1878 and 1881 Viereck was a candidate for the Social Democratic Party for Magdeburg in the Reichstag . From 1884 to 1887 he was a member of the Reichstag . In addition, between 1881 and 1894 he was the publisher of numerous (mostly quickly banned) newspapers and magazines, especially in southern Germany (including the Süddeutsche Post , the Munich Extrablatt and Judicial Newspaper , the Süddeutsche Postillion , the right to work , the Thuringian Post , the Munich newspaper Post and the Deutsche Manufakturzeitung ). In a conflict with the chairman of the BayernSPD Georg von Vollmar , Viereck had to leave the editorial office of the Munich Post in 1890; this went into the direct possession of the Bavarian SPD. In August 1886, Viereck and August Bebel were sentenced to nine months in prison in the so-called secret society trial.

After internal party conflicts by the Wyden Conference in 1887, Viereck withdrew from politics entirely. In the following years he lived mainly in Berlin and Munich and devoted himself to naturopathy . In 1890 he was chairman of the Association for Natural Health Care and the National Association for the Improvement of Public Health, as well as the editor of Die Gesundheit and the Wörishofner Blätter , the Philanthropist and Hygienic Correspondence . In October 1896 Viereck emigrated to the United States . He initially worked there as a correspondent for German newspapers. From 1909 he was the editor of Der Deutsche Vordampfe , from 1910 Rundschau second worlds , later of The Fatherland and American Monthly . In 1909 he returned to Germany due to an illness and stayed mainly in Berlin until 1919, but hardly appeared in public.

He was married to Laura Viereck since 1881 . The German-American writer George Sylvester Viereck (1884–1962) emerged from the marriage. Peter Viereck (1916–2006) is a grandson.

See also

Fonts

  • American colonial policy . In: Koloniale Monatsblätter , Jg. 15, 1913, pp. 182-191, pp. 285-288, 297-316, 404-416, 556-570.

literature

  • Helga Berndt: Biographical sketches of Leipzig worker functionaries. Documentation on the 100th anniversary of the Socialist Law (1878–1890). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 248-253. (Licensed edition Topos, Vaduz 1979)
  • Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles and election documentation. A manual . Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-7700-5192-0 , p. 781.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 102 , 539; 5 , 141.
  2. ↑ a b Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia in Marburg 1825 to 2000 . Marburg 2000, p. 122, No. 525
  3. ↑ Short biographies. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Quadrangle, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), journalist, MdR and later naturopath
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1922
Place of death Bad Wildungen