Rudolf Doehn

Doehn Rudolf ( born February 2, 1821 in Hinrichshagen, † April 9, 1895 in Dresden; Complete name: Karl Johann Georg Rudolf Doehn ) was a German -American author and politician.

Life

Rudolf Doehn was born in Mecklenburg Hinrichshagen the son of a farmer and attended school in Friedland. He studied philosophy in Hall and was in 1841 a member of the Corps Guestphalia. In 1845 he earned his doctorate at the University of Greifswald with the work Diss de speculativo logices Platonicae principio on Plato Dr. phil. In Berlin and at the University of Rostock he sat then continued his studies in Law.

Doehn became politically active in the revolution of 1848/ 1849. While his comrades Julius Wiggers and Moritz Wiggers were involved in the Rostock trial for treason after the failure of the revolution in 1853, emigrated Doehn 1854 in the U.S. and there belonged to the Forty- Eighters. In St. Louis, he worked as a teacher for the free community. In 1858 he married Francisca Martins.

From 1860 Doehn was a member of the House of Representatives in Missouri. In this role he contributed significantly to the 1861 successful resistance against the secession. He joined a volunteer regiment, which mixes came together at the outbreak of the civil war militarily engaged German to fight against Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson, who supported the Confederacy. , Doehn was a member of B. Gratz Brown and founded by Charles D. Drake Missouri General Emancipation Society. They urged provided in his Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 to more radical measures to abolish slavery as Abraham Lincoln, the border states like Missouri ausnahm. Doehn was one of the advisers of Franz Sigel and corresponded with Francis Preston Blair. The commitment Doehns against slavery in Missouri must be seen against the background of a numerically very large share of immigrants from Germany, which in turn had no slaves.

After nearly twelve years of exile, he returned in 1865 to Germany and lived in the Radeberger suburb of Dresden in the North Street 3 Doehn remained true to its liberal principles, author of several books on the political system of the United States and advised wishing to leave the club for geography Dresden. Later, he also turned to American literature. In 1878 he worked as an editor of the Dresden press, which appeared briefly as a social-democratic "Replacement Sheet" after the proclamation of the socialist laws, and was one of the founders of the General German Writers' Association in Leipzig. Doehn was an important figure of integration of Dresdner literary scene, because he belonged to the literary society, the Literary Association as well as the Society for Literature and Art. He wrote for the German Museum, the gazebo, the yearbook for the German theater of Joseph furrier and wrote in the leaves of literary entertainment literature reviews. Doehn belonged to the German Liberal Party.

Also Doehns Franziska was active as a writer in Dresden. Else, the daughter married Paul Schumann and after the divorce Ferdinand Avenarius. The son Bruno Doehn was 1922-1924 Vice Chairman at the State Court for the Protection of the Republic after the Republic Protection Act of the early Weimar Republic.

Works

• Literature by Rudolf Doehn in the catalog Open Library
• Literature of and over Rudolf Doehn in the catalog WorldCat
• Literature by Rudolf Doehn in the catalog HathiTrust