Wilhelm Eichhoff (journalist)

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Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Eichhoff (born February 20, 1833 in Berlin ; † May 22, 1895 in Stuttgart-Heslach ) was a German journalist and social democrat.

Life

Wilhelm Eichhoff studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Friedrichs-Universität Halle . There he became a member of the Corps Palaiomarchia (1854) and the Corps Vandalia Berlin (1855).

After his (broken off?) Studies he was employed in the police administration in Hamburg in 1857/58 and in Berlin from 1858 . He corresponded for the Hermann, Deutsches Wochenblatt from London , a newspaper for German exiles . There he published articles about Wilhelm Stieber and the communist trial in Cologne in 1852. He was therefore sentenced to 14 months in prison. He put revision and wrote pamphlets under the title Berlin police silhouettes . The prints were immediately banned and Eichhoff was convicted again. He fled to Kiel and then to England . In London he got to know Karl Marx personally. From 1862 he lived as a merchant in Liverpool . He returned to Germany in 1866 with an amnesty . In 1868 he joined the International Workers' Association . In 1869 Eichhoff was one of the conveners of the Eisenach Congress of the Social Democratic Workers' Party . He wrote for the Berliner Volksblatt , the Munich Post and other social democratic newspapers. He translated from English and French for JHW-Dietz-Verlag Stuttgart , z. B. Ancient Society by Lewis Henry Morgan .

“His“ interesting past ”was known only to a few except me, as he rarely spoke of it himself. In the social democracy , too, the generation of that time knew little or nothing about it. We had become acquainted with each other in Berlin and soon grew closer. After attending several universities, Eichhoff was employed in the Berlin police administration. What he saw and heard there drove him to opposition. In particular, he was outraged by the machinations of the well-known Stieber and decided to get to grips with this "clever criminalist". In the reaction time of the fifties he published a series of essays in the London “Hermann” under the title “Berlin Police Silhouettes”, which caused a tremendous sensation because they brought to light intimate processes within the Prussian police. From the revelations of Karl Marx on the Cologne Communist trial that had little penetrated into the large public, Eichoff moved that Stieber one in that processes the conclusion perjury had done. The author of the “Police Silhouettes” was tracked down, who escaped arrest through a romantic escape via Hamburg to England in good time. However, disciplinary proceedings were initiated against Stieber for violating official authority, and although he was acquitted, he was put up for disposition. In the trial against Stieber, the chief public prosecutor said that the authority of the police should not be shaken. Stieber was hired again in 1866 and 1870 as chief of the field police .

Eichhoff became acquainted with Marx and Engels in London and joined the International , on which he published a work long regarded as the best source. The sometimes unfriendly judgments contained in the correspondence between Marx and Engels about him can be explained by the mood at the time. After many different fates, Eichhoff came to Stuttgart , where he became the chief editor of the Swabian Tagwacht . He died in the sixty-second year of 1895. "

- quoted from Wilhelm Blos: Memories of a Social Democrat

Works

Wilhelm Eichhoff: Berlin police silhouettes . Second series. Berlin 1860
  • Berlin police silhouettes. 1st to 4th series. Berlin 1860–1861.
  • Berlin police silhouettes. 4th series. London 1861 ( books.google.de ).
  • What the Prussian People Expect , Berlin 1861 (marginal glosses on contemporary history)
  • The Stieber process. In: Adolph Kolatschek (Ed.): Voices of the time. Monthly magazine for politics and literature. Leipzig / Heidelberg 1860: Second volume: July – December. Pp. 352-355.
  • How Schleswig-Holstein has become what it is . H. Gaskarth, Bradford 1864
  • The international workers' association. Its founding, organization, political and social activity and expansion. Albert Eichhoff, Berlin 1868 ( books.google.de ).
    • Address and Provisional Rules of the Working Men's Association. the International Workers' Association. Its founding, organization, political and social activity and expansion. Verlag Neue Gesellschaft GmbH, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1969 (NG reprints).
  • (anonymous): Pro Nihilo! Prehistory of the Arnim process . Issue 1. Verlag-Magazin, Zurich 1876 ( books.google.de ).
  • Louis Héritier: History of the French Revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic with an addendum From the Second Empire to the Third Republic by Ed. Amber. Ed. U. exp. by W. Eichhoff . Dietz, Stuttgart 1897
  • Lewis H. Morgan: The Primordial Society. (Ancient Society). Investigations into the progress of mankind from wildness through barery to civilization. Translated from English by W. Eichhoff with the assistance of Karl Kautsky. Verlag JHW Dietz Nachf. G. mbH Stuttgart 1891. (Second, reviewed edition. With a portrait of the author. 1908.)

literature

  • From the Berlin Police Presidium. With a portrait of Police Colonel Patzke. Commissioned by R. Friese, Leipzig 1861 ( books.google.com ).
  • AA from Harlessem: Pro multo. Reply to the brochure “Pro nihilo!”. Otto Wigang, Leipzig 1876 ( books.google.de ).
  • Heinrich Gemkow : Wilhelm Eichhoff a pioneer of the I. International in Germany. In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement (BzG), Berlin 1964, special issue on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the First International. Pp. 142-159.
  • Heinrich Gemkow: Afterword. In: The International Workers' Association, its founding, organization, political-social activity and expansion . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1964, pp. 81-102 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • The I Internationále in Germany (1864-1872). Documents and materials. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1964.
  • Rolf Dlubek , Hannes Skambraks: "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx in the German labor movement (1867 to 1878). Outline and evidence of the history of its impact. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1967.
  • Heinrich Gemkow: Eichhoff, Karl Wilhelm. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 109–110.
  • Angela Graf: JHW Dietz. 1843-1922. Publisher of the Social Democrats. JHW Dietz Successor, Bonn 1998, ISBN, pp. 196 and 210.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 103/89; 17/71
  2. ^ Hermann, German weekly newspaper from London (1859-1914)
  3. ^ "Shadows of ten-year corruption in Prussia". III. Stieber. IV. Stieber from September 10 to October 29, 1859
  4. ^ Obituary to Eichhoff in Vorwärts , Berlin. No. 119 of May 23, 1895.
  5. ↑ "That Eichhoff works for Armin was known to us long before Liebknecht and is by no means surprising given E [ichhoff] s hatred of Bismarck and Stieber." - Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels May 25, 1876. ( Marx-Engels-Werke . Volume 34, p. 16.)
  6. ↑ Others attribute this publication to Otto von Loë as the author .
  7. ↑ Wilhelm Kosch thinks in his Biographisches Staatshandbuch , p. 38 the author would be Harry von Armin himself: "His brochure" Pro Nihilo "... in which he recently proceeded against Bismarck ... led to another trial".

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personal data
SURNAME Eichhoff, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichhoff, Carl Ludwig Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Journalist and social democrat
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1895
Place of death Stuttgart-Heslach