Rudolf Doehn

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Rudolf Doehn (born February 2, 1821 in Hinrichshagen , † April 9, 1895 in Dresden ; full name: Karl Johann Georg Rudolf Doehn ) was a German-American writer and politician.

Life

Rudolf Doehn was born in Hinrichshagen in Mecklenburg, the son of a tenant, and attended school in Friedland . He studied philosophy in Halle and was a member of the Corps Guestphalia from 1841 . In 1845 he received his doctorate at the University of Greifswald with the thesis Diss. De speculativo logices Platonicae principio on Plato to the Dr. phil. In Berlin and at the University of Rostock he continued after his studies in the subject Jura continued.

Doehn was politically involved in the revolution of 1848/1849 . While his comrades-in-arms Julius Wiggers and Moritz Wiggers got involved in the Rostock high treason trial after the failure of the revolution in 1853 , Doehn emigrated to the USA in 1854 and belonged to the Forty-Eighters . In St. Louis , he worked as a teacher for the Free Church . In 1858 he married Francisca Martins.

1860 Doehn belonged to the House of Representatives in Missouri on. In this function he made a major contribution to the successful resistance against secession in 1861 . He joined a volunteer regiment in which militarily engaged Germans came together at the outbreak of the civil war to fight against Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson , who supported the Confederates . Doehn was a member of the Missouri General Emancipation Society founded by B. Gratz Brown and Charles D. Drake . They pushed for more radical measures to abolish slavery than Abraham Lincoln envisaged in his 1862 Emancipation Proclamation , which exempted border states such as Missouri. Doehn was one of Franz Sigel's advisors and corresponded with Francis Preston Blair . Doehn's commitment against slavery in Missouri has to be seen against the background of a numerically very high proportion of immigrants from Germany who themselves did not have slaves.

After almost twelve years of emigration, he returned to Germany in 1865 and lived in the Radeberg suburb of Dresden at Nordstraße 3. Doehn remained true to his liberal principles, published several books on the political system of the USA and advised those wishing to leave the Dresden Geography Association . Later he also turned to American literature. In 1878 he worked as an editor of the Dresden Press , which appeared briefly as a social democratic "substitute paper" after the socialist laws were proclaimed , and was one of the founders of the General German Writers' Association in Leipzig. Doehn was an important figure in the integration of the Dresden literary scene, because he belonged to the Litterarian Society , the Literary Society and the Society for Literature and Art . He wrote for the Deutsches Museum , for the gazebo , the yearbook for the German theater by Joseph Kürschner and wrote literary reviews in the Blätter für literary entertainment . Doehn belonged to the German Liberal Party .

Doehn's wife Franziska was also active as a writer in Dresden. The daughter Else married Paul Schumann and after the divorce Ferdinand Avenarius . The son Bruno Doehn was from 1922 to 1924 deputy chairman of the State Court for the Protection of the Republic under the Republic Protection Act of the early Weimar Republic .

Works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Estate of Wolfgang Schumann (grandson) (PDF; 9.4 MB)
  2. ^ Doehn at the University of Rostock, 1849/1850
  3. ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 116 , 720
  4. ↑ Leipzig Repertory of German and Foreign Literature, Volume 14 Verlag TO Weigel, 1846, p. 317
  5. ^ Adolf Eduard Zucker: The forty-eighters: political refugees of the German Revolution of 1848 . Columbia University Press, 1950
  6. ^ Entry at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  7. ↑ Axel W.-O. Schmidt: The red doctor of Chicago: the fate of a German-American emigrant: biography of Dr. Ernst Schmidt, 1830-1900, doctor and social revolutionary , 2003
  8. ↑ Members of the US armed forces
  9. ↑ James Peckham: Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, and Missouri in 1861: a monograph of the great rebellion . American News Company, 1866
  10. ^ Jörg Nagler: Fremont contra Lincoln . Volume 246 of European University Writings: History and its Auxiliary Sciences, P. Lang Verlag, 1984
  11. ↑ William Earl Parrish: Frank Blair: Lincoln's conservative . University of Missouri Press, 1998.
  12. ↑ American Studies, Volumes 15-16, 1970
  13. ^ Anton Bettelheim: Biographische Blätter. Yearbook for life history art and research . Verlag E. Hofmann & Co., 1895, p. 476
  14. ↑ Helmut Kreuzer. German-language literary criticism 1870-1914. Peter Lang Frankfurt (PDF; 922 kB)
  15. ^ Ingo J. Hueck: The State Court for the Protection of the Republic Volume 16 of contributions to the legal history of the 20th century . Mohr Siebeck, 1996.

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personal data
SURNAME Doehn, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doehn, Karl Johann Georg Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Hinrichshagen
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1895
Place of death Dresden