Stephan Molitor (journalist)

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Stephan Molitor , also Stephen (born January 5, 1806 in Scheßlitz , † July 25, 1873 in Cincinnati , Ohio ), was a German-American journalist and pioneer of the German press in Cincinnati.

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Life

Molitor graduated from high school in his birthplace and enrolled on November 3, 1823 at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg to study philosophy , where he also attended readings in the subject of police law , which is why some sources suggest that he is studying law becomes. Afterwards he was in the royal bayer. Civil service as a consultant for the Munich police.

In 1830 he emigrated to the United States . In 1835 he became the first editor of the New York State Newspaper . He then worked as an editor for the German-language daily Philadelphia Demokrat , founded in 1538, and for a paper called Buffalo Westbürger . In 1837 he went to Cincinnati. There Heinrich Rödter (also Henry Roedter ; 1805-1857), publisher of the newspaper Das Cincinnatier Volksblatt founded in 1836, hired him as editor. The people sheet was then the most important German-American newspaper in the Midwest . Together with his colleague Georg Walker (1808–1849), who had already worked for Rödter before Molitor, Molitor soon bought the paper, which was in financial difficulties and which belonged to him the following year, since Walter went to Louisville in 1938 for the time being .

Despite the difficulties mentioned, Molitor was able to recover the Volksblatt and through his journalistic activities also gained influence on politics and society up to the state level. In 1862 he was able to sell the newspaper to Gustav Hof and Moritz Jacobi and retired at the beginning of June 1862. The newspaper was then taken over by Friedrich Hassaurek in early 1866 .

Stephan Molitor was married with four daughters and one son.

literature

  • † Stephan Molitor †. In: The German Pioneer . Memories from the pioneering life of Germans in America. 5th year, issue 6, German Pioneer Association of Cincinnati, end of August 1873, p. 191 f. ( online )
  • Karl Rümelin: An obituary to Stephan Molitor. In: The German Pioneer. Memories from the pioneering life of Germans in America. 6th year, issue 1, German Pioneer Association of Cincinnati, end of March 1874, p. 2 ff. ( Online )
  • Molitor, Stephan. In: Clifford Neal Smith: Early Nineteenth-Century German Settlers in Ohio (Mainly Cincinnati and Environs), Kentucky, and Other States. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4a, 4b, and 4C. Genealogical Publishing Com., 2009, pp. 24-25. ISBN 978-0-806-35229-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First high school class. In: Annual reports of the royal study institutes in Bamberg. Georg Romuald Klebsadel (print), Bamberg, 1821, p. 14.
  2. ^ The Cincinnatier Volksblatt. In: Don Heinrich Tolzmann: German Cincinnati. Arcadia Publishing, 2005, p. 96. ISBN 978-0-738-54004-7
personal data
SURNAME Molitor, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moilitor, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American journalist and pioneer of the German press in Cincinnati
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheßlitz , Kingdom of Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1873
Place of death Cincinnati , Ohio , USA