Detroiter Abend-Post (Detroit [Mich.]) 18??-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,606 issues from 1914 to 1918, published in Detroit, Michigan, digitised for Chronicling America.
In 1852, August Marxhausen, a German immigrant with newspaper training, responded to an ad placed by Dr. Peter Klein seeking to found a German-language newspaper in Detroit. Marxhausen came to Michigan and began working on the Michigan Demokrat. However political differences with the paper’s owner soon arose over the issue of slavery, and in November 1854 August and his brother Conrad, who had joined him in Detroit, began to publish their own German-language paper, the Michigan Journal, which supported the Republican Party. By 1866, the brothers’ partnership had frayed. Conrad continued to publish the Michigan Journal. Two years later, August launched the daily Detroiter Abend Post, which developed a reputation for solid and even-handed reporting. August Marxhausen, who was often described as Detroit’s leading German citizen, served as its publisher until his death in 1910.
The Detroiter Abend Post remained in family hands until 1934, when it was bought by Ernest Sahlmann, who bankrupted the publication. Its assets were to be sold by the federal court in November 1938, but several German-American financial angels, as well as the Post Printing Company, saved the paper from that fate. The most important of these benefactors was Oscar Keydel, who as president revived the Abend Post and eventually became its sole owner. At the same time, the owner of the Post Printing Company, Erwin Shoe, kept a supportive hand in the paper. Although he later sold his company’s interest, Shoe…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Detroit, Michigan, 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