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New-Yorker Abend-Zeitung

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New-Yorker Abend-Zeitung
TypeDaily German language newspaper
PublisherFriedrich Rauchfuss
Editor-in-chiefHermann Raster (1852–1867)
Founded1851
Political alignmentRepublican Party
LanguageGerman
Ceased publication1874
HeadquartersNew York City
Circulation2,300 (1856)[1]

The New-Yorker Abend-Zeitung was a daily evening German language newspaper in New York City published from 1851 to 1874 that directly competed with the Democratic New Yorker Staats-Zeitung.[2]

History

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1856 advertisement for the New-Yorker Abend-Zeitung

Published by revolutionary émigré Forty Eighter Friedrich Rauchfuss, the newspaper was strongly anti-slavery and affiliated with the burgeoning Republican Party. Friedrich Kapp served as the first editor.[3] In 1852, Rauchfuss hired journalist Hermann Raster as editor-in-chief, himself a fellow Forty Eighter from the Duchy of Anhalt who previously served as editor of the abolitionist newspaper the Buffalo Demokrat. In the events leading up to the American Civil War, the paper, which was considered radical at the time, expressed the view that John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a revolutionary act of a European character, which Raster deemed atypical for the United States. During the war, the paper was staunchly pro-Union. In 1867, Raster left his position as editor-in-chief after fifteen years and relocated to Chicago to edit the Illinois Staats-Zeitung.[4]

The separate Sunday edition of the paper was called the Atlantische Blätter.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Ernst, Robert (1994). Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863. Syracuse University Press. p. 280. ISBN 0815602901.
  2. ^ Thomas, Adam (2005). Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History : a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia, Volume 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 824. ISBN 1851096280.
  3. ^ Who was who in America. Marquis Who's Who. 1963. p. 288.
  4. ^ Dietze, Carola (2021). The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States. Verso Books. pp. 390–91. ISBN 978-1786637215.