Sebastian Seiler

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Franz Sebastian Seiler (born 1815 in Lüben ; died December 4, 1870 in New Orleans ) was a German-American journalist and socialist. Pseudonyms N. E. Mesis , T. Sebastiano and former public servant .

biography

Sebastian Seiler was the son of a glazier and a member of the local council. After attending high school , he passed an exam as a court clerk. worked as a private writer , then an actuary in Liegnitz . In 1835 he was sentenced to a fine of 30 thalers for falsifying certificates. In 1837 he stayed in Berlin . Then he traveled abroad with an official passport and stayed in Paris until 1839 .

Swiss years

From 1840 he lived in Switzerland, where he participated in secret connections and joined the League of Justice . She lived in Zurzach until November 1840 and wrote for the Aargauer Volksbote . He wrote numerous books a. a. about Kaspar Hauser and Wilhelm Weitling . He was friends with Weitling, August Becker and Simon Schmidt. In 1842/43 he delivered correspondence articles for the Rheinische Zeitung . In October 1842 Gustav Bacherer visited him in Lausanne , who considered him the “soul of the communists” of the city. In 1843 he also met Bakunin in Zurich . After Weitling was arrested, he was expelled from Switzerland.

Stay in Brussels

From October 1843 he lived in Brussels and lived next to Marx and Engels in 1845/46. According to the Brussels police, Seiler is said to have been the author of the book "Esquisses histoiques sur Napoléon". Seiler was a member of the Communist Correspondence Committee and wrote articles for the Telegraph for Germany . In Brussels he worked in the "New German Newspaper Correspondence Bureau" founded by Carl Reinhard and himself on May 1, 1845. On March 30, 1846, the momentous meeting between Weitling, Marx, Engels , Seiler, Joseph Weydemeyer , Philippe Gigot, Wilhelm Wolff, Edgar von Westphalen , Annenkow , and Louis Heilberg took place; "Weitling himself reports to Hess that Marx was irritated by Weitling in the most sensitive way." Seiler firmly took sides with Marx. A few days later, Hermann Krieg was sentenced with the "Circular against the People's Tribune". That was also his final break with Wilhelm Weitling.

During the revolution in Paris

In 1847 he moved to Paris . Here he belonged to the workers' association and Paris community of the League of Communists . In March 1848 in Paris, Seiler condemned the revolutionary plans of Georg Herwegh and the German Legion . Sebastian Seiler was a stenographer for the French National Assembly and, along with August Hermann Ewerbeck, was one of the most ardent Parisian correspondents for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung . The Neue Rheinische Zeitung paid tribute to Seiler after his first arrest on the basis of unfounded suspicions by the police prefect of Paris Chéri Rebillot .

"Seiler's departure - if it really takes place - should be all the more palpable for the German daily press as it is He who has followed the negotiations of the National Assembly with much attention since their beginning and who in compact overviews of the German daily press through the large (semi-administrative ) Sent Havas 's correspondence office with unprecedented speed. This gap will [...] be difficult to replace. "

- Neue Rheinische Zeitung, February 14, 1849

After the demonstration on June 13, 1849, Seiler was arrested again and expelled from Paris on August 20, 1849. He was deported to London via Boulogne-sur-Mer on August 24th .

Exile in London

In London, Seiler was in constant contact with Marx. On September 9, 1850 he received "3½ Shillings " from the "Social-Democratic Refugee Committee" in London. On September 17, 1850, after the split in the League of Communists in London, Seiler and Marx left the workers' education association. In June 1854 Jenny Marx with children and Helena Demuth recovered from the Seiler family because of the better "country air". Since Seiler feared a private bankruptcy , he traveled via Southampton to Halifax in February 1856.

Last years in the United States

In New York , Seiler wrote for the New York State Democrat Weekly , and the New York State Newspaper . Karl Heinzen slandered him as an alleged "spy". In 1857 Seiler was temporarily chairman of the German Workers' Union in New York.

In 1859 he was editor-in-chief of the Daily German newspaper in New Orleans, where Samuel Ludvigh visited him. He supported the election of George Michael Hahn as governor of Louisiana . In September 1860 he founded the weekly New Orleans Journal . Seiler acted here for the abolition of slavery in the United States. Later on, Seiler campaigned on the part of the Republicans of Abraham Lincoln for “the right to vote for negroes”.

His brother Franz Seiler, who lived in Berlin, supported Wilhelm Liebknecht and his wife Ernestine when Liebknecht was imprisoned in 1866 for returning to the Prussian states in violation of the law. Franz Seiler's wife, Marie Seiler, also sent "small support" to Nathalie Liebknecht on behalf of her husband and Sebastian Seiler.

Sebastian Seiler died on December 4, 1870 in New Orleans.

Sebastian Seiler had fourteen siblings, including the brothers:

Works

Independent writings

  • T. Sebastiano: Secret communications from the times of the French Empire: Based on Emile Marco de Saint-Hilaire’s "Souvenirs intimes du temps de l'Empire" . Friedrich Schultheß, Zurich 1839.
  • NE Mesis: Kaspar Hauser, heir to the throne of Baden . [Jenny Sohn, Bern] Paris 1840. MDZ Reader
    • F. Sebastian Seiler: Kaspar Hauser, heir to the throne of Baden . [Jenny, Bern] Paris 1845. MDZ Reader
    • F. Sebastian Seiler: Kaspar Hauser, heir to the throne of Baden. Third edition. [Jenny, Bern] Paris 1847. archive.org
    • NE Mesis: Kaspar Hauser the heir to the throne of Baden . Kaspar Hauser Verlag, Offenbach am Main 2005, ISBN 3-934766-32-3 .
  • Maria Luise and the Duke of Reichstadt , the victims of Metternich's politics . Published by a former civil servant. [Jenny, Sohn, Bern] Paris 1842. ( 2nd edition 1849 hathitrust.org)
  • Property in danger! or What do Germany and Switzerland have to fear from communism and belief in reason? . Jenny Sohn, Bern 1843. MDZ Reader
  • The war between Switzerland and France in 1838, caused by an apron, a spy and the Bernese aristocracy. From the papers of a diplomat . Jenny Sohn, Bern 1843. MDZ Reader
  • About communism in Switzerland. An illumination of the commission report of Dr. Bluntschli on the communists in Switzerland; (allegedly!) according to the papers found at Weitling's . Jenni, son, Bern 1843 MDZ Reader
  • The writer Wilhelm Weitling and the communist noise in Zurich. A defensive pamphlet that has already been set but suppressed by the Valais State Council, is now being offered to the public here . Jenny Sohn, Bern 1843. MDZ Reader
  • The Complot of June 13, 1849, or the last victory of the bourgeoisie in France. A contribution to the history of the present . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1850. MDZ Reader

items

  • Circular of the Communist Correspondence Committee in Brussels against the “People's Tribune”, edited by Hermann Kriege . Brussels, May 11, 1846. (Drawn by Engels, Phil. Gigot, Louis Heilberg, K. Marx, Seiler, v. Westphalen, Wolff ).
  • London, 9th Sept. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , Cologne, No. 96 of 13th September 1850.

Letters

  • Sebastian Seiler to the JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung. April 28, 1840.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Wilhelm Weitling. January 18, 1843.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Simon Schmidt. January 2, 1843.
  • Hermann Kriege to Sebastian Seiler. June 6, 1845.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Karl Marx. after April 11, 1847.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Joseph Weydemeyer. January 21, 1850.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Karl Marx. April 4, 1850.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Friedrich Engels. November 18, 1850.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Karl Marx. July 24, 1852 or 1853.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Karl Marx. July 24, 1852 or 1853.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Karl Marx. April 1, 1856.
  • Sebastian Seiler to Wilhelm Liebknecht. June 13, 1861.

literature

  • Wermuth , Stieber : The Communist Conspiracies of the Nineteenth Century. On official order for use by the police authorities of all German federal states. Second part. Containing: The personal details of the persons appearing in the Communist investigations . AW Hayn, Berlin 1854, pp. 120–121. Digital copy (Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1969 and Verlag Klaus Guhl, Berlin 1976)
  • (Obituary). In: Schlesische Provinzialblätter. New episode . F. Gebhardi, Breslau 1871, p. 481.
  • Hermann Schlueter : Beginnings of the German labor movement in America . JHW Dietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1907, pp. 164-167.
  • Ernst Barnikol (ed.): History of religious and atheistic early socialism. First edition of the secret report written by August Becker in 1847 and submitted by Georg Kuhlmann to Metternich and von Vinets Rapport . Mühlau, Kiel 1932, pp. 64-66. (= Christianity and Socialism Volume 6)
  • Gerhard Winkler: Seiler, Sebastian . In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 426-427.
  • Hermann Pies: The emigrant Sebastian Seiler and his plagiarism . In: the same: Kaspar Hauser. Falsification, false reports and trend reports . Ansbacher Museumsverlag, Ansbach 1973, p. 202 ff.
  • Sebastian Seiler from Lüben . In: Herwig Förder, Martin Hundt , Jefim Kandel, Sofia Lewiowa (ed.): The League of Communists. Documents and materials . Volume 2. 1849-1851 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 525-527.
  • Information from the Belgian police to the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about Sebastian Seiler from May 1845. In: Walter Schmidt: Brussels correspondence in the ' Mannheimer Abendzeitung '. On the effectiveness of the German newspaper correspondence office in Brussels . In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 10. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1986, pp. 273–333 here pp. 296–297.
  • Walter Schmidt (Ed.): Neue Rheinische Zeitung. France 1848/49 . Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1986 (= Reclams Universal Bibliothek 1136)
  • Bert Andréas , Jacques Gandjonc and Hans Pelger (eds.): Association Démocratique, ayant pour but l'union et la fraternité de .tous les peuples. »An early international democratic association in Brussels 1847–1848 . Arranged by Helmut Elsner and Elisabeth Neu. Trier 2004, ISBN 3-86077-847-1 . (= Writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus 44.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information from the Belgian police to the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about Sebastian Seiler from May 1845. The age of him is given as 30 years.
  2. ^ JR Arndt, May E. Olson: The German language press of the Americas. History and bibliography (= The German-language press of the Americas. History and Bibliography . Verlag Documentation, Munich 1980, p. 397).
  3. Seiler, Justice Actuar . In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1837, part 1, p. 342. “Heiliggeistr. 23 ".
  4. Allgemeine Zeitung . Augsburg No. 313 of November 8, 1840, p. 2502.
  5. "The city police of St. Gallen picked up the likely author of the text 'Kaspar-Hauser, Baden heir to the throne' as a businessless adventurer [...] and handed it over to a higher authority for expulsion from the canton". ( Der Schweizer Bote . Aarau No. 51 of April 20, 1841, p. 204. )
  6. Friedrich Engels to Karl Marx. February 18, 1852: "Can't you get the great historian of K [aspar] H [auser] to write to L [ouis] -N [apoleon] and offer him his important sources in this history?" ( Marx -Engels-Werke . Volume 27, pp. 23-24.)
  7. ^ Sebastian Seiler to Wilhelm Weitling January 18, 1843.
  8. ^ Confidential report by Hermann Friedrich Georg Ebner November 5, 1842. In: Hans Adler (Ed.): Literary Secret Reports. Metternich agents' logs. Volume I. 1840-1843 . informationspresse - cw leske, Cologne 1977. ISBN 3-434-00297-9 , pp. 171-172.
  9. ^ Bakunin to August Becker. June 1844. (Marc Vuilleumier: Weitling, les communistes allemands et leura adeptes en Suisse . In: Cahiers Vilfredo Pareto . Volume 10. Genève 1973, p. 73.)
  10. He lived in Rue de l'Alliance No. 2 , Marx No. 7 and Engels No. 5.
  11. “A short time later, Hess met his wife and a certain Sebastian Seiler joined the small German circle. He set up a German correspondence office, and the small German colony lived here comfortably together ”. (Jenny Marx: Brief outlines of an eventful life . In: Mohr and General. Memories of Marx and Engels . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1965, p. 206.)
  12. Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 10 , p. 297. This writing could not be determined bibliographically.
  13. ^ Walter Schmidt: Brussels correspondence in the 'Mannheimer Abendzeitung' . Pp. 275, 288-290.
  14. Wilhelm Weitling to Moses Hess March 31, 1846. In: Herwig Förder, Martin Hundt, Jefim Kandel, Sofia Lewiowa (ed.): Der Bund der Kommunisten. Documents and materials . Volume 1. 1836-1849 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 307-308.
  15. ^ Friedrich Engels to August Bebel October 25, 1888. In: Marx-Engels-Werke. Volume 37, pp. 117-119.
  16. “Heilberg versus Marx from the impartial standpoint; Last but not least, Seiler ditto, but with an admirable calm and security ”. (Wilhelm Weitling to Moses Hess March 31, 1846)
  17. Philippe Charles Gigot (1819–1860) Belgian archivist and translator.
  18. JZ: A Russian Voice on Karl Marx . In: The new time . Review of intellectual and public life . 1 (1883), No. 5, pp. 236-241. fes.de
  19. ^ Louis Heilberg (1818-1852) German journalist; originally Lazarus Heilberg.
  20. ^ Franz Mehring : Karl story of his life . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1960, p. 124 (= Franz Mehring. Collected writings Volume 3)
  21. Herwig Förder: Marx and Engels on the eve of the revolution . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1960, pp. 52–74. [Chapter: "The dispute with Weitling (March 30, 1846)", "The 'Circular Against Wars' (May 11, 1846")]
  22. ^ Circular of the Communist Correspondence Committee in Brussels against the "People's Tribune" .
  23. "Seiler's reports, if marked at all, were marked with a small asterisk". (Walter Schmidt (Ed.): Neue Rheinische Zeitung. France 1848/49 , p. 12.)
  24. ^ Rebillot (Chéri, dit Charles - général) Préfet de police .
  25. See also Neue Rheinische Zeitung , No. 224, February 17, 1849, supplement, p. 1, column 2.
  26. Neue Rheinische Zeitung , No. 221, February 14, 1849, supplement, p. 1, column 3
  27. See his work: The Complot of June 13, 1849, or the last victory of the bourgeoisie in France. A contribution to the history of the present .
  28. Jacques Grandjonc: On Marx's stay in Paris: October 12, 1843 - February 1, 1845 . In: Studies on Marx's first stay in Paris and the emergence of the German ideology . Trier 1990. ISBN 3-926132-16-7 , p. 208. His age is given as "34" years.
  29. ^ Marx-Engels works . Volume 28, pp. 23, 27 f., 30, 212.
  30. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department I. Volume 10. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1977, p. 575.
  31. The League of Communists. Documents and materials . Volume 2. 1849-1851 , p. 271.
  32. Marx to Engels. June 21, 1854 and June 27, 1854. ( Marx-Engels-Werke . Volume 28, pp. 371 and 372.)
  33. ^ Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels. March 5, 1856.
  34. Sebastian Seiler to Karl Marx. April 1, 1856.
  35. Minutes of the New York Communist Club of December 11, 1857. (Herwig Förder, Martin Hundt, Jefim Kandel, Sofia Lewiowa (eds.): Der Bund der Kommunisten. Documents and materials . Volume 3. 1851–1852 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1984, p. 340.)
  36. The torch. Literature sheet for the promotion of intellectual freedom . Edited by Samuel Ludvigh. 12. Vol. Saint Paul, Minnesota 1859, p. 78.
  37. Andrea Mehrländer: The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War period, 1850-1870. A study and research compendium . De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2011, p. 268.
  38. Ellen C. Merrill: Germans of Louisiana . Gretna, Pelikan Publishing Company, 2004, pp. 70 and 187.
  39. Kurt Koszyk , Karl Obermann (ed.): Contemporaries of Marx and Engels. Selected letters from the years 1844 to 1852 , p. 273.
  40. ^ Proceedings of the convention of the Republican Party of Louisiana held at Economy Hall, New Orleans, September 25, 1865 and of the Central Executive Committee of the Friends of Universal Suffrage of Louisiana, now the Central Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Louisiana . In: New Orleans Tribune Office , New Orleans 1865, pp. 2, 10, 11, 31, 32.
  41. Seiler, F. Kaufmann . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1866, part 1, p. 578. “Magazin von Pianino's and Flügeln, Markgrafenstr. 33 ".
  42. ^ Franz Seiler to Ernestine Liebknecht November 16, 1866. ( Georg Eckert (Hrsg.): Wilhelm Liebknecht. Correspondence with German Social Democrats. Volume I. 1862–1878 . Van Gorcum & Comp., Assen 1973, ISBN 90-232-0858- 7 , p. 198.)
  43. ^ Marie Seiler to Nathalie Liebknecht. November 16, 1866. Quoted from Wolfgang Schröder : Ernestine. About the unusual life of Wilhelm Liebknecht's first wife . Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1987. ISBN 3-7304-0085-1 , p. 171.
  44. The year of birth “1810” and the year of death “1890”, as is often stated in the literature, are incorrect. (Compare e.g. Gerhard Winkler, Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe , writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus et al.)
  45. ^ Friedhelm Finke: From the curriculum vitae of the city of Liegnitz. Sketches for the history of a German city in Silesia . Weber, Lorch / Württemberg 1986, p. 77 ff.
  46. Silesian Art Collections
  47. After Wertmuth / Stieber, he is the author.
  48. Emil Oskar Weller : The wrong ones and fake printing locations . Leipzig 1858, p. 144.
  49. The foreword is signed “F. Sebastian Seiler, Judicial Actuary from Prussia ”.
  50. Wilhelm Wolff wrote in Vorwärts on December 7, 1844: “How would the government be frightened, how our moneyers start when they found out the number of copies that z. B. from the little work 'Property in danger' (at Jenni's in Bern) are in the hands of craftsmen and factory workers ”. (Walter Schmidt: Wilhelm Wolff. His path to becoming a communist 1809-1846 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1963, p. 205.)
  51. Reprint : The Communists in Switzerland according to the papers found at Weitling's. Verbatim print of the commission report to the high government of the state of Zurich. As an attachment: Sebastian Seiler: The writer Wilhelm Weitling and the communist noise in Zurich. A letter of defense . Detlev Auvermann, Glashütten im Taunus 1973.
  52. The text bears the printed dedication: "Dedicated to his friend Karl Marx, chief editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung by Sebastian Seiler in exile in London, February 1850."
  53. The book was part of Marx's personal library. ( Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe . Department IV. Volume 32. The libraries of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-05-003440-8 , No. 1224, p. 597.)
  54. ^ Marx-Engels works . Volume 4. pp. 1-17.
  55. Printed in: The League of Communists. Documents and materials . Volume 2. 1849-1851 , pp. 31-32.
  56. ^ German literature archive . Marbach, Neckar. Manuscript Department.
  57. Printed in excerpts in: The League of Communists. Documents and materials. Volume 1. 1836-1849 , p. 1008.
  58. State Archive Zurich. Weitling papers. P 239.1. Printed in: The League of Communists. Documents and materials . Volume 1. 1836-1849 , pp. 154-155.
  59. ^ Heinrich Schlueter, Alfred Wesselmann (Ed.): Hermann Kriege. Documentation of a change from fraternity and revolutionary to democrat. 1840-1850 . Volume 1, Der Andere Verlag, Osnabrück 2002. ISBN 3-936231-12-5 , p. 222.
  60. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III. Volume 2. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1979, p. 333.
  61. Printed in excerpts in: Contemporaries of Marx and Engels. Selected letters from the years 1844 to 1852 , p. 307.
  62. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III. Volume 3. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1981, pp. 509-510.
  63. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III. Volume 3. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 682.
  64. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III. Volume 5. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-320-00105-1 , p. 449.
  65. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III. Volume 5. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-320-00105-1 , p. 450.
  66. Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Department III. Volume 8. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1990. ISBN 3-320-00109-4 , pp. 247-249.
  67. RGASPI Moscow F. 200 op. 4 d. 19. Quoted from Wolfgang Schröder: Ernestine. About the unusual life of Wilhelm Liebknecht's first wife . Verlag für die Frau, Leipzig 1987. ISBN 3-7304-0085-1 , p. 89.