Robert Schweichel

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Robert Schweichel

Georg Julius Robert Schweichel (pseudonym Heinrich Friedemann ; * July 12, 1821 in Königsberg , † April 25, 1907 in Berlin ) was a journalist and writer who sympathized with the Social Democrats .

Live and act

While studying law and camera science at the Königsberg Albertina , he became a member of the Germania fraternity in 1844 . After completing his studies, Schweichel appeared in 1848 as a speaker in the workers' association, wrote sharp articles for the representatives of the people and headed the editorship of the Ostpreussisches Volksblatt and Dorfzeitung für Prussia (1849-1850).

He was expelled from Prussia in 1855 because of a press offense (participation in the movements of 1848 and 1849 ). He emigrated to Switzerland and settled in Lausanne , where he taught at the college and was professor at the academy. When he returned to Germany in 1861, he was able to take over the editing of the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Berlin . From 1869 to 1883 he edited the Jankesche Deutsche Roman-Zeitung . For a time he was President of the German Writers' Association.

He then lived as a writer in Leipzig, Hanover and Berlin. He was a close friend of Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel . He wrote u. a. for the Demokratisches Wochenblatt , the Neue Zeit and other socialist newspapers.

Elise Schweichel is at the bottom of the picture the 2nd from right

Schweichel's wife was the writer and social democrat Elise Schweichel , née Langer (1831–1912).

From 1897 to 1903 it appeared in the weekly magazine In free hours, founded in 1897 . Novels and stories for the working people twelve stories by Robert Schweichel, mostly reprints, under the collective title From the Lives of the Disenfranchised , which both Robert and Elise Schweichel were very happy about. In December 1898, Schweichel's main work was published under the title Um die Freiheit. Historical novel from the German Peasants' War in 1515. It was to remain the only one of his works that was later reprinted again and again.

At the funeral service for Robert Schweichel on April 28, 1907, August Bebel gave his friend the memorial speech in the hall of the community cemetery Friedhof Berlin-Schöneberg, and songs performed by the Schöneberg Workers' Choral Society framed the funeral service when the coffin was lowered.

Works

Novel collections

  • In the mountains and the valley (1864)
  • Jura and Lake Geneva (1865)
  • In the highlands (1868)
  • From the Alps (1870, 2 vols.)
  • Italian sheets (1876, 3rd ed. 1880)

Novels

  • The ax swinger (1868, 3rd edition 1880)
  • The carver from Achensee (1873, 3 vol .; 3rd ed. 1876)
  • The falconers of St. Vigil (1881, 3 vol.)
  • The shopkeeper von Illiez (3rd edition 1882)
  • The miracle doctor (3rd edition 1882)
  • Camilla (1886) et al., All published in Berlin.
  • To freedom , novel from the peasant wars 1525 (1898)
  • In his study (1891)
  • Italian leaves (1877)

Article (selection)

  • The relation of the Capital and Junker Party to the workers . In: Democratic weekly paper . Supplement No. 44 of October 31, 1868.
  • In memory of Wilhelm Liebknecht . In: The New Time. 19 vol., 1900/1901, vol. 2, p. 571 f.
  • Wilhelm Liebknecht as a writer . In: Die Neue Welt, 1900, p. 332
  • Wilhelm Liebknecht, a character image . In: Illustrated New World Calendar for the year 1902, p. 36

literature

  • Wilhelm Liebknecht: Robert Schweichel . (1900) In: Heinrich Gemkow : Wilhelm Liebknecht. Memories of a soldier of the revolution , Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1976, pp. 300–308
  • ( Karl Kautsky ): (Robert Schweichel on his 80th birthday) July 3, 1901 . In: The New Time . 19. Jg. 1900/1901, Vol. 2, pp. 418-419
  • Ernst Kreowski : Robert Schweichel. A folk man and poet . In: The True Jacob . No. 543 of May 14, 1907, pp. 5401-5403 digitized
  • E. Kreowski: Robert Schweichel in exile in Switzerland . In: The New World , 1908, No. 27
  • Robert Schweichel . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism . Deceased personalities . Vol. 1. JHW Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, pp. 284–285.
  • Erika Pick: Robert Schweichel. From the Swiss novels to the peasant war novel . Investigations into the choice of material and heroes . Phil. Diss. Berlin 1961
  • Schweichel, Robert . In: Lexicon of socialist writers in German literature. From the beginning to 1945. Monographic-biographical presentations . Leipzig 1964, pp. 457-460
  • Erika Pick: Schweichel, Robert . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 421-423
  • Ursula Münchow: Labor movement and literature 1860–1914 . Construction Verlag, Berlin 1981
  • Christian Deutschmann: Social Democracy and Literature by the prose author Robert Schweichel (1821–1907) . TU Berlin Mag. Arb. 1986
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 389-392.
  • Robert Schweichel and the "Demokratisches Wochenblatt . In: On laborious searching and happy finding. Reviews and experiences of Marx-Engels researchers and historians of the labor movement. Colloquium on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Prof. Dr. Heinrich Gemkow on June 28, 2003 in Berlin, Part II . Berlin 2003, pp. 30–34
  • Ursula Hermann: Schweichel, Robert (1821–1907). From chairman of the Königsberg workers' association in the revolution of 1848/49 to the writer and friend of Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel . In: Actors of a Change. Men and women of the revolution of 1848/49 . Edited by Helmut Bleiber / Walter Schmidt / Susanne Schötz . Fides, Berlin 2003, pp. 787-834
  • Stefan Jordan:  Schweichel, Georg Julius Robert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 39 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 389.
  2. ↑ On Elise Schweichel see Ursula Herrmann: Elise Schweichel (1831–1912). Writer and social democrat in the struggle for women's emancipation . Trafo, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-89626-397-1 .
  3. ↑ Ursula Herrmann: Elise Schweichel (1831-1912). Writer and social democrat in the struggle for women's emancipation . Trafo, Berlin 2004, p. 118.
  4. ↑ Ursula Herrmann: Elise Schweichel (1831-1912). Writer and social democrat in the struggle for women's emancipation . Trafo, Berlin 2004, p. 119.
  5. ↑ Ursula Herrmann: Elise Schweichel (1831-1912). Writer and social democrat in the struggle for women's emancipation . Trafo, Berlin 2004, p. 119, p. 123.
  6. ^ Accidentally reprinted in: Franz Mehring : Essays on German Literature from Hebbel to Schweichel, Berlin 1961, pp. 455–456.

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personal data
SURNAME Schweichel, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schweichel, Georg Julius Robert (full name); Friedemann, Heinrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1907
Place of death Berlin