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Hermann / Londoner Zeitung Online |
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Contact/Order: info@digento.de 
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A publication of the German 1848 exiles in England |
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Online |
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Verlag :: Publisher Walter de Gruyter |
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Preis :: Price Preise auf Anfrage / Prices on request |
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Das Angebot richtet sich nicht an Verbraucher i. S. d. § 13 BGB und Letztverbraucher i. S. d. PAngV. |
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Bestellnummer bei digento :: digento order number 109410 |
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information Launched in London in January 1859, the German-language weekly Hermann – later Londoner Zeitung: Hermann – became by far the longest-lived German newspaper in Britain, running almost 3,000 issues until August 1914. Founded and first edited by the 1848 revolutionary, theologian and art historian Gottfried Kinkel, and financed from a transatlantic "revolution loan", the paper grew out of the world of German political exile. Founder-editor of Hermann was Gottfried Kinkel (1815-1882), a theologian, art historian and poet. Formerly a university professor at Bonn, he had been sentenced to life imprisonment for political offences after the revolution, but managed to escape from Spandau jail to London in 1850. The paper was started with money from the "revolution loan", a fund for propaganda purposes raised in 1852 mainly from German emigrants and refugees in the United States. Kinkel continued to be associated with Hermann after Ernst Juch (d. 1900) became editor in July 1859. Later, Juch also acquired the title rights, but shortage of capital subsequently forced him to take in partners of different political persuasion and eventually to abandon the paper altogether. Throughout the 1860s Hermann was advertised in the British Newspaper Press Directory as "liberal" and as advocating "the principles which it considers necessary for a free and united Germany". At first this meant promoting a Greater German republic, but the paper soon shifted to support the Nationalverein which campaigned for a monarchical, Prussian-led Kleindeutschland, albeit on the basis of then abortive Frankfurt constitution of 1849 with ist liberal freedoms and democratic suffrage. The force behind this shift was the chairman of the London branch of the Nationalverein, Alexis Heintzmann (1811-1865), an erstwhile state prosecutor from the Rhineland who had prospered in exile as a businessman and now invested heavily in Hermann. Notwithstanding ist kleindeutsch position, however, the paper remained strictly opposed to Bismarck's domestic and foreign policies even when the Prussian-dominated unification from above began to take shape in 1867 to the enthusiastic cheers of the National Liberals. As early as May 1859 Karl Marx (1818-1883) noted resentfully that it had 1,700 subscribers, while Das Volk, a rival publication supported by him, was sinking. In 1867 Hermann was reported to be selling 2,000 copies in London alone. Even so, the paper only just managed to stay afloat. The dilemma every editor faced was that for commercial reasons Hermann had to recruit subscribers in Germany, and in order to be allowed to do this, political moderation was highly advisable. On the other hand, the paper was bound to prove more attractive to German readers if it took a principled stand and made full use of the unfettered press freedom in Britain. This necessitated a careful balancingact, which was further complicated by the political tensions between the radical emigré writers and the moderate persuasions of the German business community in London on whom they depended for advertising revenue. The paper's initially cautious approach and the tolerant attitude adopted by Prussian officials during the "New Era" came to an end in the autumn of 1859 with a series of sensational articles exposing the dubious and illegal methods which Wilhelm Stieber (1818-1882), head of the Berlin criminal police, had used in his struggle against all forms of political dissent. When the confiscation of individual issues failed to produce the desired effect, Hermann was banned indefinitely in January 1860. The newly digitized edition of Hermann provides easy access to a rare, invaluable source documenting the political development of the revolutionary exiles in London during the pivotal years from 1859 to 1914 and providing at the same time a mirror image of the colourful social and cultural life of the German community in Victorian England. At a glance:
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