Ernst Dronke

Ernst Andreas Dominicus Dronke ( born August 17, 1822 in Koblenz, † November 2, 1891 in Liverpool) was a writer and publicist. He was companion of Karl Marx.

Life

Dronke received at the Royal Grammar School Coblenz his high school and he studied law at the Friedrich- Wilhelms University of Bonn ( 1839-42 ), Philipps- University in Marburg ( 1842-43 ) and at the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin (1843 -44 ). In Bonn, he was a member of the Corps Palatia. After receiving his doctorate as a journalist in Berlin, from where he was expelled in 1845 because of the communist tendencies of his work ( a similar thing happened to him in Leipzig). Dronke has addressed this type of persecution in several texts of his police stories. In 1846 he published his most important book with Berlin, which is a social survey of the city in the course of early industrialization. The critical view of this book schooled in Bettine von Arnim and Georg Büchner; it is also directed against the rampant fashion of mystery novels, in which the " dark side of society" were made into a picturesque feature entertainment.

For the publication of Berlin Dronke lese majeste, insulting the Berlin police and criticism of the state laws has been sentenced to two years imprisonment. In the turmoil of the revolution he fled from the fortress of Wesel to Brussels. There he became acquainted with Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx later. In April 1848 he accompanied him along with Friedrich Engels from Paris to Cologne, where he was on the editorial board of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, for which Georg Weerth worked. He was a member of the League of Communists. In 1849 he emigrated to Switzerland and later to England, where he retired from politics in 1852. Marx and Engels accused him of petty-bourgeois setting, in exile led to further alienation. Dronke became an independent businessman and established itself as an agent of a copper mining company. After Germany, he has not returned.

Works

  • Hangdog votes. 12 songs. Altenburg 1846.
  • Police stories. Leipzig 1846. ( Digitized and full text in German Text Archive )
  • From the people. Frankfurt am Main, 1846.
  • The May Queen. A people living on the Rhine. Leipzig 1846.
  • Berlin. 2 vols Frankfurt 1846.
  • The process of negotiations against Ernst Dronke before the police court to Koblenz on 10 April to 6 May 1847. Zur characteristics of the new appearance of a tendency Process and the subjecting of a foreigner because of the actual abroad unpunished acts under the Criminal concepts of Prussian. Gesetze.Jurany, Leipzig 1847 digitized
  • Police stories. New, ill. Output. Leipzig et al 1850.
  • The May Queen. A people living on the Rhine. Leipzig and Meissen in 1850

Revisions, which also contain biographical information on Dronke:

  • Berlin. Edited and with an afterword by Irina Hundt. Berlin 1987.
  • Berlin. Nachdr the First Edition With an afterword by Rainer Nitsche. Darmstadt et al 1974.
  • Police stories. With an afterword by Erich Edler. Faks printing. Göttingen 1968.
  • Police stories as well as the trial of the same before the police court to Koblenz ( 1847). Edited and with an afterword by Detlev Wagner. Berlin, undated ( circa 1974 ). ISBN 3-87628-156-3
  • For the people & police stories, edited by Bodo Rollka, Cologne 1981
  • The May Queen, edited by Hartmut Kircher, Cologne 1981
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