Ludwig Stechan

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Gottfried Ludwig Stechan (born January 26, 1816 in Hanover , † August 17, 1875 in Edinburgh ) was a German master carpenter , local politician , publisher and newspaper editor, pioneer of the labor movement and entrepreneur. The revolutionary was also a co-founder of the North German workers' association .

Life

Born in 1816 as the son of the Hanoverian master carpenter Johann Friedrich Stechan in the Kingdom of Hanover , Ludwig Stechan completed an apprenticeship with his father from the age of 14 until 1833 before going on a hike . After migrating in Switzerland , Stechan went to France and stayed in Paris in 1836 and 1837 , where he came into contact with the ideas of early socialism through Theodor Schuster and Jacob Venedey . While still in Paris, Stechan became a member of "the ' League of Outlaws ' which emerged in 1836 from the ' League of the Just '". At the beginning of 1837 he returned to Hanover, since he had become conscripted in 1836.

In the meantime, after the end of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover, Stechan's birth town became the royal seat of King Ernst August , who in 1837 had the "Basic Law for the Kingdom of Hanover ", which had previously been passed without his consent, repealed on November 1, 1837.

In this city of Hanover, where industrialization began not only in the then suburb of Linden under Georg Egestorff and with the construction of the first Hanoverian railway in 1843 , Ludwig Stechan returned - after having previously traveled to London - in 1840, the same year when he left the formerly founded in Paris the League of the Just and the League of Outlaws formed a union of Germans . These secret, because "criminal connections", were the subject of police investigations. After investigations by the Hanover Criminal Police Office , he was arrested on September 19, 1840, released on April 19, 1841 on bail , arrested again around a year later on April 8, 1842, and after a total of one and a half years of pre-trial detention , the four of them were finally arrested Sentenced for weeks in prison. His comrades-in-arms from “Hanover”, who had also been in Paris before, were the mechanic “Neuber” and the bookbinder Hartmann from Hanover, the carpenters Brandes from Hildesheim and Fuhrke from Buchholz near Hanover. They had been sentenced to long-term penitentiary or workhouse sentences as "agents or recruiters" . Stechan, however, was only able to convict the indictment on the basis of a subsidiary point, namely the “dissemination of rebellious writings”.

After his release, Ludwig Stechan acquired the citizenship of Hanover in 1844 . He was actively involved in the workers' association in Hanover founded by his friend Friedrich Stegen , which emerged from the book printer reading association on April 1, 1848, and was accepted into the Communist League in August 1850 as a member of Peter Gerhard Roeser .

After Ludwig Stechan end of 1849, beginning of 1850 by the citizens of Hanover in the civil head of the College was elected, he was in February 1850 in Leipzig during the General German Workers' Brotherhood for vice president elected. From April 1850 to the beginning of October 1850, Stechan was “responsible for the editorial department” and Wenzel Kohlweck was editor in Hanover, previously the magazine “Concordia, magazine of the cigar workers” published in Leipzig.

In the following year, Stechan was from January 4 to June 28, 1851 publisher and editor of the magazine Deutsche Arbeiterhalle , the organ of the "North German Workers' Association", in which Stechan's contributions were strongly influenced by Marxism. The sheet was published by “ Verlag Pockwitz ”. After Stechan was arrested again on June 7, 1851, Adolf Mensching published the last three issues of the magazine, which were then also distributed in the Kingdom of Prussia . When Peter Nothjung was arrested in 1851, addresses of “agents or advertisers” were found “which extended over all of Germany”, including the address of Ludwig Stechan.

Stechan was arrested on July 11, 1851, and on September 9, 1851, he fled to London, where he and Georg Lochner were elected President of the New Workers' Association , which he co-founded, in January 1852 . As such, he worked sporadically with Karl Marx , who commented on Stechan as follows: "Stechan has something solid and fluctuating in the guild class about himself, but he is capable of education and has great influence in northern Germany,"

At the age of around 40, Ludwig Stechan ended his active participation in the labor movement when he moved to Edinburgh at the end of 1855 at the beginning of 1856 and opened a carpentry and tobacco shop there.

After the annexation of Hanover by Prussia , Stechan visited the city of Hanover for the first time in 1868 and again in the year of the proclamation of the German Empire in 1871. There he appeared as a celebrated speaker at the 25th foundation festival of the Hanoverian workers' association.

Publications

  • L. St., carpenter: About labor distribution among the craftsmen. In: The workshop. A monthly for craftsmen . Editor: Georg Schirges . Verlags-Comptoir, Hamburg 1846, issue 4, pp. 171-174.
  • The Hanoverian townspeople, in relation to the new trade regulations . In: The workshop . Hamburg 1847, pp. 103-106.
  • L. St .: The French workers and the German journeyman . In: The workshop . Hamburg 1847, pp. 107-109.
  • About the Monday party of the carpenter journeyman in Hanover . In: The workshop . Hamburg 1847, pp. 133-135.
  • L. St .: Technical . In: The workshop . Hamburg 1847, pp. 143-149.
  • L. Stechan: The union of workers . In: Annual report of the workers' association in Hanover. For the 5th foundation festival of the association ed. of board members of the same . Hanover 1850, p. 14 ff.
  • Social letters . In: German Workers' Hall . No. 8 of February 22, 1851.
  • The situation of the refugees in London . In: German Workers' Hall . No. 11 of March 15, 1851.
  • The revolutionary celebration of social democracy . In: German Workers' Hall . No. 11 of March 15, 1851.

Letters

literature

  • Eberhardt's Allgemeine Polizei-Anzeiger , ed. by Hermann Müller, Police Assessor, Vol. 36, Dresden: Teubner'sche Offizin, 1853; Digitized
  • Wermuth / [Wilhelm] Stieber : The Communist Conspiracies of the Nineteenth Century. In the official order for the use of the police authorities of all German federal states on the basis of the relevant judicial and police acts [...] , AW Hayn, Berlin 1853f. (Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1969 and Verlag Klaus Guhl, Berlin 1976);
    • [...] First part. Contains: the historical presentation of the relevant investigations ; Digitized
    • [...] Part two. Containing: The personal details of the persons appearing in the Communist investigations ; Digitized
  • Karl Bittel (Hrsg.): The Communist Trial in Cologne 1852 in the mirror of the contemporary press . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1955, pp. 95, 102-106, 108, 123, 162, 180-181.
  • Frolinde Balser : Social Democracy 1848/49 - 1863. The first German workers' organization “General Workers Brotherhood” after the Revolution (= Industrial World. Series of publications of the Working Group for Modern Social History , Vol. 2), [Vol. 1] Text volume, Stuttgart: Klett Verlag, 1962, pp. 166–171.
  • Heiko Geiling : On processing the political defeat of 1848. The “German Workers' Hall. Weekly for the working and non-dispossessed classes, edited by L. Stechan ”. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 39 [1985], pp. 169–188.
  • Hermann von Berg: Origin and activity of the North German Workers 'Association as a regional organization of the German workers' brotherhood after the suppression of the revolution of 1848/1849 . Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn 1981 (Berlin, Institute for Social Science at the ZK d. SED, Diss., 1970)
  • Erhard Kiehnbaum: Beyond the guild! Ludwig Stechan - A master carpenter from Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 46 [1992], pp. 149–186
  • Heiko Geiling: 1948 democracy and socialism in Hanover. Gottlieb Ludwig Stechan and the "German Workers Hall". In: Heide Barmeyer (Ed.): The revolutionary year 1848/49 in Lower Saxony (= Hannoversche Schriften zur Regional- und Lokalgeschichte , Vol. 14), Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 1999, ISBN 3-89534-296-3 , p. 141-158; contents
  • Klaus Mlynek : STECHAN, Gottlieb Ludwig. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 344f.
  • Rita Seidel , Franz Rudolf Zankl (Eds.): Hanover Edition 2000 [initial delivery], loose-leaf collection in the folder, [Braunschweig]: Archiv-Verlag, [1998]
  • Klaus Mlynek: Stechan, Gottlieb Ludwig. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 599f.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Birth register Aegidien-Kirche Hannover 27/1816. (Erhard Kiehnbaum: Beyond the guild! Ludwig Stechan - A master carpenter from Hanover , p. 150.)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Mlynek: Stechan ... (see literature)
  3. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  4. ↑ a b c d e Eberhardt's general police indicator
  5. ↑ Erhard Kiehnbaum: Beyond the guild! Ludwig Stechan - A master carpenter from Hanover , p. 155.
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Ernst August, King of Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 163f.
  7. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Industrialization. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 314f.
  8. ^ Peter Gerhard Roeser. Interrogation of January 3, 1854. ( The League of Communists. Documents and materials . Volume 2). Dietz Verlag 1982, p. 462.
  9. ↑ Elke Brünle: libraries of Workers' Education Associations in the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1848 - 1918 (= Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft , vol. 20), also dissertation 2009 at the University of Mainz, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06195-7 , p. 84; online through google books
  10. ↑ Note: Instead also: General Assembly of German Workers , compare Klaus Mlynek: Stechan .... In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 599
  11. ↑ Erhard Kiehnbaum: Beyond the guild! Ludwig Stechan - A master carpenter from Hanover , pp. 167–171.
  12. ^ Heiko Geiling: On processing the political defeat of 1848. The "German Workers' Hall. Weekly for the working and non-dispossessed classes, edited by L. Stechan ” .
  13. ↑ Elke Brünle: libraries of Workers' Education Associations in the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1848 - 1918 (= Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft , vol. 20), also dissertation 2009 at the University of Mainz, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06195-7 , p. 84; online through google books
  14. ^ A b Klaus Mlynek: German Workers' Hall. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 125f.
  15. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, June 10 , 1851 is also given as the date of the new arrest, compare Klaus Mlynek: Stechan, Gottlieb Ludwig. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 599f.
  16. ^ Gerhard Becker: The 'New Workers' Association' in London 1852. A contribution to the history of the League of Communists . In: Journal of History . Berlin 1966, issue 1.
  17. ↑ Karl Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer January 23, 1852. ( Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department III. Volume 6, p. 19.)
  18. ^ Post-Office Edinburgh and Leith Directory 1865-1865, p. 178.
  19. ↑ Erhard Kiehnbaum: Beyond the guild! Ludwig Stechan - A master carpenter from Hanover , p. 186.
personal data
SURNAME Stechan, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stechan, Gottfried Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German master carpenter, publisher and pioneer of the labor movement
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1875
Place of death Edinburgh