Westphalian friend of the people
| The popular friend. A weekly for Westphalia
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| description | Subscription weekly newspaper |
| publishing company | August Helmich (publisher) ; from Nov. 1848: FL Wagener from Lemgo |
| First edition | June 10, 1848 |
| Frequency of publication | about weekly |
| Editor-in-chief | Rudolf Rempel , Gustav Adolf Wolff |
The friend of the people. A weekly for Westphalia was a newspaper during the March Revolution in East Westphalia-Lippe , the first editor of which was Rudolf Rempel from Bielefeld . The newspaper's motto was: "Freedom, Prosperity, Education for All". The name goes back to the newspaper L'Ami du Peuple published by Jean Paul Marat .
The sheet entered in June 1848 as the third newspaper in Bielefeld in competition with the "public indicators for the county Ravensberg" and " Ravensberg people sheet ." While the latter on a constitutional point of view was, the People's Friend continued the radical democratic tradition of the Westphalian steamboat on. Rempel took the motto of the paper almost literally from this. In terms of the program, the first issue said: Der Volksfreund wants “the rule of the people in its greatest extent.” Until his flight to Paris at the end of 1848, most of the articles were from Rempel himself. These were mostly sharp attacks on his political opponents.
In the first edition, the paper reports on a funeral procession of 60,000 people in Berlin to the cemetery of the March dead on June 4, 1848. In September 1848, the paper supported a congress of the democrats in Bielefeld.
First of all, the friend of the people appeared in the " Commission publishing house of August Helmich " in Bielefeld. The newspaper was initially printed by JD Küster (widow) .
From the 21st edition, which appeared on November 11, 1848, the newspaper was printed in the FL Wagener printing house in Lemgo and Gustav Adolf Wolff from Lemgo joined the editorial team . Rempel and Wolff ran the editorial team together until the end of 1848, and Wolff was the sole editor from 1849 until the newspaper was closed.
The 22nd edition of the year 1848 was confiscated by the mayor of the city of Bielefeld with "Gensd'armerie-Escort" because of lese majesty.
In the 18th edition of May 3, 1850, Rudolf Rempel called for the establishment of a "workers 'association according to social-democratic principles" on behalf of the Bielefeld workers' reading association and published the founding statute of the association. Membership should be acquired through the subscription of shares. The Bielefeld Workers' Reading Association hoped for the support of the entire Democratic Party of Westphalia.
On July 5, 1850, the people's friend reported that the people's friend's reaction was sentenced to three quarters of a year of forced labor. In addition to the editor Gustav Adolf Wolff , three citizens from Lemgo and one from Lage lost their lives in Detmold for political offenses . A citizen of Detmold was convicted of insulting the princely government .
The newspaper was banned on June 28, 1850 by the Prussian government; readers were informed of the ban on July 19, 1850.
Individual evidence
- ^ Exhibition in: Wilfried Reininghaus / Horst Conrad (eds.): For freedom and law. Westphalia and Lippe in the revolution of 1848/49. Münster, 1999 p. 193
source
- Facsimile reprint of the years 1848 to 1850, Junfermann printing house, Paderborn, 1983
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '42 " N , 8 ° 54' 4.4" E