Wilhelm Engelberg

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Wilhelm Engelberg (* 1862 ; † 1927 ) was a German printer owner and publisher.

Life

Wilhelm Engelberg was born in 1862 as the son of Julius Engelberg (1829–1902), who had given up his title of nobility after the Baden Revolution , and his wife Wilhelmina Eisenmann (* 1835). He received the name of his grandfather, Wilhelm von Engelberg. Engelberg was the publisher of the Haslach local newspaper Schwarzwälder Volksstimme . His collaboration with Heinrich Hansjakob is reflected in his work.

Engelberg founded the local SPD association in Haslach in the Kinzig valley in 1898 . He was a formative figure of social democracy in southwest Germany. His correspondence with Adolf Geck is inventoried in the Bonn archive of the Social Democrats .

A street in Haslach is named after Wilhelm Engelberg.

His son was the historian Ernst Engelberg (1909-2010).

Publications

  • with Albert Pfister: Heinrich Hansjakob. From his life and work . Illustrations based on original recordings and photographs by Wilhelm Engelberg. Bonz, Stuttgart 1901
  • The Lieutenant von Hasle. Folk play in 5 acts plus prelude; based on the story by Heinrich Hansjakob . Haslach (around 1924)
  • The Vogt on Mühlstein. Folk piece in 7 acts, based on a story by Dr. Heinrich Hansjakob edited for the Volksbühne . Haslach 1932.

literature

  • Ernst Engelberg: Small and large world in the life and work of Haslach citizen Wilhelm Engelberg (1862–1947). About the traditions of the Baden revolution of 1848/49 . In: Die Ortenau 59, 1979, pp. 69–118.
  • Ernst Engelberg: The Germans. Where we come from . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-320-02170-2 . In it the chapter Excursus: Father and Son , pp. 247–288, in particular pp. 247 ff., 253 ff., 269 ff. And 279.
  • Manfred Hildenbrand: Wilhelm Engelberg (1862-1947) . In: Haslach im Kinzigtal. History of an old market town . Haslach 2009, pp. 913-914.
  • Manfred Hildenbrand: love of home and socialism. Wilhelm and Ernst Engelberg from Haslach in the Kinzigtal. In: Allmende 13, 1993, 38/39, pp. 216-238.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Engelberg: The Germans. Where we come from . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2009, p. 283.
  2. ↑ Hans-Holger Paul et al .: Inventory of the legacies of the German labor movement . For the ten West German states and West Berlin. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-111-51000-2 , p. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Engelberg, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German print shop owner and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1862
DATE OF DEATH 1927