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Illinois Staats-Zeitung (Illinois State Newspaper) was a German-language newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The newspaper was founded in 1848 as a weekly, and became a daily in 1851.[1] The newspaper had as its main ambition to maintain the use of the German language.[2]
Politically, the newspaper was Republican.[3] In the 1850s, the paper was taken over by Forty-Eighters and became a major daily newspaper of the Chicago German community.[4] In 1851, Georg Schneider became the editor of the paper. Schneider played a major role in building the Republican Party in Illinois, a work in which the Illinois Staats-Zeitung played an important function.[5][6] Illinois Staats-Zeitung opposed slavery, and Schneider successfully used the newspaper as a platform to campaign against the Kansas-Nebraska Act.[7] On February 22, 1856 Schneider attended, on behalf of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a meeting in Decatur of anti-Nebraska newspapers in Illinois. In total 26 newspapers were represented at the meeting, assembled by the Morgan Journal editor Paul Selby.[8]
During the Civil War years the paper fully dominated German-language press in the city, as Democratic German-language newspapers were short-lived at the time.[9] At this point, Illinois Staats-Zeitung was the second-largest daily newspaper in the Chicago.[10] During the war, Wilhelm Rapp was on the staff. He came from the Baltimore Wecker after a riot destroyed its office. After the war, he returned to the Wecker. In 1872, he returned to the Staats-Zeitung and became editor in 1891 when Hermann Raster died.[11]
Between 1891 and 1899, the paper had a separate evening edition, Abendblatt (Evening Paper).[12]
In 1921, the paper was sold for 25,000 dollars.[13] The paper was resurrected as Deutsch-Amerikanische Bürger-Zeitung. A short time before, the Chicagoer Freie Presse had merged with the paper.[12]
References
- ^ History of Chicago from Trading Post to Metropolis
- ^ Encyclopedia of Chicago — Germans
- ^ Shore, Elliott, Ken Fones-Wolf, and James Philip Danky. The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850–1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. p. 87
- ^ Shore, Elliott, Ken Fones-Wolf, and James Philip Danky. The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850–1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. p. 50
- ^ Douglas, George H. The Golden Age of the Newspaper. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999. p. 213.
- ^ Bergquist, James M. Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820–1870. Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2008. p. 115
- ^ The Centennial History of Illinois — Vol. Three — The Era of the Civil War
- ^ Snay, Mitchell. Abraham Lincoln, Owen Lovejoy, and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Illinois
- ^ Shore, Elliott, Ken Fones-Wolf, and James Philip Danky. The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850–1940. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. p. 59
- ^ Schied, Fred M.. Education and Working Class Culture: German Workers' Clubs in Nineteenth Century Chicago
- ^ Albert B. Faust (1963). "Rapp, Wilhelm". Dictionary of American Biography. VIII, Part 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 384-385.
- ^ a b Encyclopedia of Chicago — Selected Chicago Daily Newspapers, Foreign Language
- ^ "German Paper to Resume; Illinois Staats-Zeitung Sold by Receiver in Chicago". New York Times. October 26, 1921. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0DE6DF103EEE3ABC4E51DFB667838A639EDE. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
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