Ernst Henrici

Carl Ernst Julius Henrici ( born December 10, 1854 in Berlin, † July 10, 1915 in chub ) was a German high school teacher, writer, adventurer colonial and anti-Semitic politicians.

Life

Ernst Henrici was born as the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Steuereinhebers Henrici and his wife Wilhelmine born Liidecke. In Berlin he attended the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium in 1874 and put his Abitur. He studied philology at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University and received his doctorate in 1878 with an award-winning work on " Notker's commentary on the Psalms ." He then worked as a teacher at a private high school for girls. Together with his older brother, the high school teacher Emil Henrici, he founded the Society of German philology and published widely acclaimed work on linguistic and historical themes. In 1879 he traveled to London to study and completed both his first marriage. After his return in the same year he went through as a secondary school internship at the Luisenstädtischer secondary school in Berlin, and in the next year to Victoria School, a Higher School for Girls.

Anti-Semitic agitator

Politically, Henrici engaged first in the left-liberal Progressive Party, joined since 1880 but as a radical anti-Semitic agitator the " Berlin Movement " out. Because of its populist and radical speeches and discussions, he was referred to as " Radauantisemit ". He was co-initiator of Antisemitenpetition, founded in 1881, the Nazi Party and Social propagated in numerous meetings ( December 17, 1880 "Kingdom Hall speech," December 30, 1880 " Bock Meeting") a racist anti-Semitism with anti-capitalist, anti-liberal and anti- conservative trains. On New Year's Eve 1880 arrived in Berlin to anti-Jewish riots that led you back diatribes on Henrici. In 1881 he was therefore dismissed from the teaching service. In 1882 he participated in the first International Anti-Jewish Congress partly in Dresden.

The synagogue fire of Pommern

On February 18, 1881, just days after an anti-Semitic diatribe Ernst Henrici in Pommern (13 February 1881), burned down the synagogue of the city. While the local Jews and the liberal press alleged an arson attack, claiming the anti-Semites, the Jews themselves set fire to the synagogue to discredit the anti-Semitism and collect the insurance. Five members of the Jewish community were tried and sentenced four of them in 1883 by the Circuit Court Koszalin for aiding and abetting arson and failure to report planned crime to imprisonment. After that judgment set aside by the Supreme Court then addressed the jury court Konitz free 1884 all defendants. The cause of the fire was never determined; however, the statement had been found, among other things the main witness as an obvious untruth. In connection with the processes it was in Pommern and other places Pomerania and West Prussia to anti-Jewish riots. These were also fueled by Henrici, who again agitated in Pomerania in June 1881.

Electoral defeat and the end of political career

Within the " Berlin Movement " remained Henrici an ultra- radical outsider. On alliance of conservatives and anti-Semites in the Conservatives Central Commitee to Henrici did not participate, but ran in the Reichstag elections as an independent candidate in the 3rd Berlin constituency. With only 843 votes, he suffered a crushing defeat by Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg. By 1885 he frequented continue in radical anti -Semitic circles until he turned to the colonial movement. In 1884 he entered into a second marriage to Clara Agnes Luise Lehmann, with whom he had children Elsa Hedwig Louise, Walther Ludwig Adalbert and Lothar.

Colonial adventurer

After participating in a government expedition through Togo in 1887, he was co-founder and chairman in 1888, named after the explorer Gustav Nachtigal " Gustav Nachtigal Society for Research on Africa patriotic " and gave lectures on German culture tasks in Africa. With his brother, the landscape painter Franz Leuschner, he traveled a second time to Togo to buy farmland. His attempt to gain a foothold in the German colony as a planter, but failed due to insufficient agricultural and geographical knowledge. In 1890 he founded the " German Togo society. Henrici and comrades " who had to be dissolved in the same year. In 1891 he returned penniless and deeply in debt back to Germany from where he embarked for overseas.

In the New World, he worked as a surveyor at the German railway in Venezuela and then worked as a bridge builder and coffee growers in Costa Rica since 1891. In 1902 he took a job as a mechanical engineer in Baltimore (USA) at the company Bartlett, Hayward & Co. in Baltimore, he published besides his dramatic works, and was co-initiator of the Baltimore flowers game ( " Flower Game "). Henrici 1905 returned back to Germany and married his third wife Edith Meyer. Since 1907 he worked in Leipzig as editor of the Spanish- and English-speaking export journals El Comprador and Energy. In 1908, he traveled again to the United States, held in New York talks and subsequently operated a farm near Mechanicsville, Maryland. After his third wife was killed by a lightning strike, he married Paula Riedel in 1909 and sold the following year his farm.

In 1910 Henrici tried in vain to a habilitation at the University of Leipzig in the fields of colonial economy and transport. In 1911 he initiated Agriculture and Technical office and laboratory in Klinga and tried 1912 with no prospect in the Reichstag elections for the Saxon Conservatives to run. In Klinga he also held from 1913 Schülerheim Landpädagogium Klinga and was editor of the anti-Semitic Evangelical national magazine Frankfurter waiting. A newspaper article in which Henrici had a speech of Rosa Luxembourg sharply criticized, and his denunciation to the prosecutor resulted in a court conviction for call to disobedience against the ruling order. Henrici 1914 acted as a research assistant at the Leipzig Book Fair for Commercial and graphics, and in September 1914 was an assistant teacher at the Royal Grammar School with Higher Agricultural School in chub.

Ernst Henrici died 1915 in chub at the age of 60 years.

Awards and honors

Works

• The sources of Notker Psalms.. KJ Trübner, Strasbourg and London 1878 (adult version of the dissertation Berlin 1878. Via the sources and purpose of Notker's commentary on the Psalms )
• The Latin text in Notker Psalmencommentar. In: Journal for German antiquity and German Literature Vol 23 ( NF = 11). 1879, pp. 217-258. online
• ( With Emil Henrici ): The Heinersdorfer stone. In: Journal for German antiquity and German Literature Vol 24 1880 ( NF = 12 ), pp. 455-462 online; 25, 1881 ( N.F. = 13 ), pp. 57-59 ( Supplement ) Online
• Dr. Ernst Henrici 's kingdom halls speech of December 17, 1880 Oscar Lorenz, Berlin 1880 Online.. (PDF, 1.6 MB)
• What is the population of Berlin has to behave in the upcoming parliamentary elections? At the same time a word of exhortation to all German voters. Speech, delivered on 17 February in Berlin. M. Schulze, Berlin 1881 Online. (PDF, 655 kB)
• Boetius. Tragedy in five acts. Oscar Lorentz, Berlin 1882.
• The Neustettiner synagogue fire in court. M. Schulze, Berlin 1883.
• The German Togo area and my trip to Africa. - Leipzig. Reissner, 1888 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
• Textbook of Ephesus language ( Ewe ). Anlo, Anecho and Dahomey dialect with glossary and a map of the Slave Coast. W. Spemann, Stuttgart, inter alia, In 1891.
• The right of the people of Epheneger and its relationship to German colonization in Togo areas. In: Journal of Comparative Law 11 (1895 ), pp. 131-152.
• Indiana. Narrative poetry. Dedicated to the Germania Club of Baltimore City to the Flower Game 1904. Self Publishing, Baltimore 1904.
• Dramatic works. 1-4. C. W. Reith cutting & Sons, Baltimore 1904-05. ( 3rd edition, 1905. )
• The Aztecs flower. E. Pierson, Dresden 1904.
• Colonial economic tasks of the German merchant. Hesse, Leipzig 1908.