Richmonder Anzeiger (Richmond, Va.) 1854-18??
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925 issues from 1855 to 1866, published in Richmond, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Founded and published by Burghardt Hassel, the German-language newspaper Richmonder Anzeiger served the German community of Richmond, Virginia, for over six decades. Translated in the publisher’s block as the “Richmond Advertiser,” the paper commenced in 1854 as a four-page weekly, published every Saturday at 198 Main Street. In 1864, Hassel began a daily edition of the Anzeiger, and in 1861 he launched Die Virginische Zeitung (“The Virginia Newspaper”) as the daily Anzeiger’s Sunday edition.
Born in Kassel on June 23, 1828, Berghardt Hassel left Germany after the Revolution of 1848, immigrating to New York in 1850. He worked for the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung and then moved to Baltimore for a short time before settling permanently in Richmond in 1852.
Impressively, the Richmonder Anzeiger managed to publish for the duration of the Civil War, with delivery to 26 Southern cities. Hassel was a staunch defender of the Confederacy and used the Anzeiger to urge German support for the cause of the South.
While readership remained low, the subscriber base of the Richmonder Anzeiger included a relatively large portion of Richmond’s German population. The 1870 United States census recorded 1,650 German-born citizens in Richmond, and Geo. P. Rowell and Co.’s American Newspaper Directory reported the Richmonder Anzeiger‘s circulation at 960 in 1872. By 1880, however, number of subscriptions had fallen to 500.
Joined in the newspaper business 1890 by his son, Clothar, Burghardt…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Richmond, Virginia, United States
- Language
- German
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress