Wilhelm Rullmann (journalist)

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Wilhelm Rullmann (born December 10, 1841 in Bieber , Gelnhausen district , Electorate of Hesse ; † October 7, 1918 in Schlüchtern ) was a German teacher, journalist and writer.

Life

Rullmann was born as the fourth child of Pastor Jakob Rullmann and his wife Karoline, née Ullrich. He first studied Protestant theology and philology at the Philipps University of Marburg . With Edmund Hess he became active in the Corps Teutonia Marburg . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . With a PhD in philology , he was a high school teacher for four years in Küstrin , Vyborg , then the Grand Duchy of Finland , today: Russia and Saint Petersburg . On August 1, 1869, he married Adele geb. Krohn from Vyborg in Kesselstadt , where his father took over the pastoral position in the same year . From 1869 he was an editor at the kk Telegraphen-Korrespondenz-Bureau in Frankfurt am Main . In 1870 he went to the Freie Presse in Vienna as a feature section editor . From 1872 he lived as a freelance writer in Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden and Berlin . In 1875 he took over the editing of the Rheinische Wochenschrift für Land- und Volkswirthschaft . Two years later he edited an autographed correspondence for German and Austrian journals in Vienna . In 1879 he went to Graz for the liberal and anti-clerical Grazer Tagespost , which he later headed as editor-in-chief . Retired in 1908 , he moved to his native Hesse . He died in Schlüchtern at the end of the First World War at the age of 76.

In his stage work he dealt with Manfred (Sicily) and Bianca Maria Sforza . He wrote a biographical sketch about his colleague Heinrich Schaumberger , who died young .

Works

  • Landscape and history from Lower Alsace . Cotta, Stuttgart 1871.
  • Manfred's Sons , Romantic Tragedy. 1876.
  • Maria Bianca , play in four acts. Carltheater 1882.
  • The divorced , acting. 1882.
  • Land and freedom , novel. 1893.
  • Heinrich Schaumberger, a sketch of his life and work . 1899.
  • The adaptations, sequels and imitations of Schiller's “Robbers” (1782–1802) . Berlin 1910.
  • Wit and humor. Forays into the field of the comic . 1910.
  • Eternal Peace and Eternal War. Reflections on the duration of the war and the peace goals of the Central Powers . Graz 1916.

literature

  • Max Aschkewitz: Pastor history of the Hanau district ("Hanauer Union") until 1986 , part 1 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 33. Marburg 1984, p. 90f.
  • Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Vol. 6, 6th edition. Leipzig 1913. German text archive

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Aschkewitz.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 166/392.
  3. ↑ a b H. E. de Wyl (ed.): Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia zu Marburg 1825–2000 (= list of members)
  4. ↑ a b German text archive
  5. ↑ Archivnet
personal data
SURNAME Rullmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Bieber (Biebergemünd)
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1918
Place of death Schluechtern , Hessen