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ACHTUNG! Gibt's inzwischen; siehe: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Staats-Zeitung

Die Illinois Staats-Zeitung war eine deutschsprachige, US-amerikanische Zeitung aus Chicago, die von 1848 bis 1922 erschien. Sie wurde von Forty-Eighters (engl. für ‚Achtundvierziger‘) begründet, also von europäischen Einwanderern, die sich infolge der Niederschlagung der bürgerlich-demokratischen Europäischen Revolutionen von 1848/49 – insbesondere der Märzrevolution in den Staaten des Deutschen Bundes – gezwungen sahen, aus Europa zu fliehen, und die in der „Neuen Welt“ Aufnahme fanden.

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Die Illinois Staats-Zeitung (ISZ) war eine Zeitung deutschsprachiger Einwanderer in die USA. Sie erschien von 1848 bis 1922 in verschiedenen Formaten. Zunächst war sie eine Wochenzeitung, ab 1851 erschien sie täglich (außer sonntags) und gab eine tägliche Abendausgabe heraus, das Abendblatt der Illinois Staats-Zeitung von 1891 bis 1894 und das Abendblatt von 1894 bis 1899. Die Zeitung wurde von Achtundvierzigern gegründet: Reformern udn revolutionären, die nach dem Scheitern der Revolution von 1848/49 aus Deutschland fliehen und anderswo Zuflucht suchen mussten - unter anderem auch in Chicago, wo Deutsche schnell zur größten ethnischen Gruppe wurden. Forty-Eighters wie der Herausgeber Georg Schneider brachten moderne Werte in die Zeitung ein und sprachen sich gegen Sklaverei, Diskriminierung von Einwanderern und Alkoholverbote aus. Als 1854 die Republikanische Partei gegründet wurde, wurde die ISZ zu einem entschiedenen Befürworter und "die führende republikanische Zeitung des Nordwestens". Obwohl die meisten deutschen Einwanderer zu dieser Zeit Demokraten waren, wuchs die ISZ schnell, und innerhalb eines Jahrzehnts wurde sie zur größten deutschsprachigen Zeitung westlich von New York.

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Englische Wikipedia

• Englische Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Staats-Zeitung

Library of Congress / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Title: Illinois Staats-zeitung. [volume] : (Chicago, Ill.) 1848-1922 Alternative Titles: Wöchentliche Illinois Staats-zeitung Place of publication: Chicago, Ill. Geographic coverage: Chicago, Cook, Illinois Publisher: [Robert Bernhard Höffgen] Dates of publication: 1848-1922 Description: Began in 1848; ceased in 1922. Frequency: Weekly Language: German

Illinois Staats-zeitung, Abendblatt der Illinois Staats-zeitung and Abendblatt

The Illinois Staats-Zeitung (ISZ) was a German-language immigrant newspaper that existed in various formats from 1848-1922. At first a weekly paper, it added a daily run (except Sunday) beginning in 1851, and it published a daily evening edition, the Abendblatt der Illinois Staats-zeitung 1891-1894 and Abendblatt from 1894-1899. The paper was founded by Forty-Eighters: progressive revolutionaries who were forced to flee Germany and seek refuge elsewhere—including Chicago, where they quickly became the largest ethnic group. Forty-Eighters such as Editor Georg Schneider brought modern values to the paper, arguing against slavery, anti-immigrant discrimination, and liquor regulations. When the Republican Party was formed in 1854, the ISZ became a firm supporter, and "the leading Republican paper of the Northwest." Even though most German immigrants at the time were Democrats, the ISZ grew rapidly, and within a decade, it became the biggest German-language paper west of New York.

Anton C. Hesing bought the paper in 1867. He brought Hermann Raster, a well-known correspondent from the New Yorker Abend-Zeitung, aboard as editor, and the two of them began an effort to use the ISZ to convince German Americans to support Republicans. The pair became major players in the Illinois Republican Party, especially Hesing, who acted as the political boss for Chicago Germans from the 1860s to 1875. The first German to hold elected office in Illinois, Hesing leveraged his power to put Germans in city and county offices, combat nativism, and push Republicans towards repealing liquor laws. Alcohol control was an especially strong point of contention: in 1872, Hesing and Raster forced the Republican Party to adopt an anti-Prohibition platform if they wanted the German vote. The resulting declaration of the "right to drink what one pleases" became known as the Raster resolution.

Though the ISZ's political influence declined after the 1870s, it enjoyed steady growth throughout the end of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth. The paper reached its peak circulation in 1915, publishing 50,000 papers a day. Unfortunately, World War I and the resulting anti-German sentiment sent the ISZ into a massive downward spiral: within three years, the paper lost 10,000 subscribers and most of its advertisers. Part of this was due to the ISZ favoring Germany in the war; former president Theodore Roosevelt attacked it as "German propaganda." Though the paper rebuked this statement and later supported the United States, the financial damage was done, and the Staats-Zeitung Corporation suspended business in June 1918. In October, the ISZ was sold, and daily publication resumed for "government purposes" of reaching citizens who only spoke German. This revival was short-lived: from March to November 1921, it was suspended again and sold. That December, it had its final death-knell when Editor Arthur Lorenz wrote an article harshly criticizing the American Legion, an association of WWI veterans. Fewer than ten days later, he was arrested, charged with libel, and recommended for deportation. This was more than the ailing paper could stand. In 1922, the ISZ finally folded and was incorporated into the Deutsch-Amerikanische Bürger-Zeitung.

Provided by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL

• Quelle: Library of Congress, LoC, About Illinois Staats-zeitung. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1848-1922, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033492/

Inhaltsgleich: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/essays/1724/

The artistic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition

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»ILLINOIS STAATS ZEITUNG.

The Illinois Staats Zeitung is a German daily morning paper. Its office of publication is on the northeast corner of Washington Street and Fifth Avenue. The founder of the Staats Zeitung was Robert Hoeffgen, in 1848. It was issued as a weekly, and the proprietor wrote his own matter, solicited advertisements, set his own type and worked off the paper from the press. Having done this he took the papers on his arm and went about delivering them to his subscribers. *

Dr. Helmuth, Arnold Voss, Herman Kriege, edited the paper in turn. In 1851 George Schneider became connected with the paper and it was changed into a daily. It was an ardent supporter of Abraham Lincoln in the memorable Lincoln-Douglass campaign. No paper did more for the success of Mr. Lincoln than did the Illinois Staats Zeitung. The influence of the Illinois Staats Zeitung is felt in the Common Council, the Legislature, and in political campaigns, National or State, as well as in all local elections. More than once it has been opposed by the entire Anglo-American press, but yet has carried the day. In 1861 William Rapp became the editor of the Illinois Staats Zeitung. In the same year Mr. Lawrence Brentano bought out Mr. Hoeffgen’s interest and assumed the editorial management. In the fall of that year Mr. Geo. Schneider sold his interest to Mr. A. C. Hesing. Messrs. Brentano and Hesing were associated together until 1867, when Mr. A. C. Hesing purchased Mr. Brentano’s interest. In this year Mr. Herman Raster assumed the editorial

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management, which position he filled with great honor until his death in Germany in August, 1891. The fire of 1871 claimed the Illinois Staats Zeitung as one of its victims. Its loss was total, yet it was among the first of the Chicago dailies to appear, which it did within forty-eight hours after the fire had ceased. On the 10th of March, 1872, its present magnificent structure was completed and occupied. The cost of the same, with machines presses, etc., amounted to nearly $300,000. The Illinois Staats Zeitung of to-day is among the German newspapers second only to the New York Staats Zeitung in wealth and circulation, while in ability, in power and in influence it is not equaled, much less surpassed, by any German newspaper of the United States. The combined circulation of the editions of the Illinois Staats Zeitung amount to over 97,000, being larger than that of any German newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains.

• The artistic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition. Illustrated. Publisher: Chicago, R. S. Peale Co., 1891, S. 161/ 162, https://archive.org/details/artisticguidech00/page/161/mode/2up

Sebastian Peter Wuepper, Dissertation

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes how a large, German-language newspaper, the Illinois Staats-Zeitung served the German-American immigrant community in Chicago in the second half of the nineteenth century. The German diaspora in the United States was not a secluded, separated, and isolated entity, but a node in a transnational network of cultural exchange that crossed national and natural boundaries. Newspapers contributed significantly to the creation and maintenance of this cultural sphere. The editors of the Staats-Zeitung were refugees of the failed 1848 democratic revolutions in Germany. In Germany they had been academics, intellectuals, lawyers and journalists. They brought their political convictions with them to their new home country. Here, they used their abilities, personal connections and collective experiences to rise in the ranks of the German immigrant community to leading positions. As editors of the Staats-Zeitung - like editors of foreign-language newspapers across the country - the former revolutionaries used their publication as a tool to influence and shape their community, as well as they used the newspaper as a tool to enact political pressure on the nation-state they resided in on local, state and even federal levels. Through the newspaper, they maintained a close contact between the immigrant diaspora in the United States and the German homeland.

Reams, Radicals and Revolutionaries: The 'Illinois Staats-Zeitung' and the German-American Milieu in Chicago, 1847-1877 Sebastian Peter Wuepper Date of Award: 2021 Degree Type: Dissertation Loyola University Chicago, https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/3908/