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| Type | Daily German language newspaper |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Friedrich Rauchfuss |
| Editor-in-chief | Hermann Raster (1852–1867) |
| Founded | 1851 |
| Political alignment | Republican Party |
| Language | German |
| Ceased publication | 1874 |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Circulation | 2,300 (1856) [1] |
The New-Yorker Abend-Zeitung was a daily evening German language newspaper in New York City published from 1851 to 1874 that directly competed with the Democratic New Yorker Staats-Zeitung . [2]
Published by revolutionary émigré Forty Eighter Friedrich Rauchfuss, the newspaper was strongly anti-slavery and affiliated with the burgeoning Republican Party. Friedrich Kapp served as the first editor. [3] In 1852, Rauchfuss hired journalist Hermann Raster as editor-in-chief, himself a fellow Forty Eighter from the Duchy of Anhalt who previously served as editor of the abolitionist newspaper the Buffalo Demokrat . In the events leading up to the American Civil War, the paper, which was considered radical at the time, expressed the view that John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a revolutionary act of a European character, which Raster deemed atypical for the United States. During the war, the paper was staunchly pro-Union. In 1867, Raster left his position as editor-in-chief after fifteen years and relocated to Chicago to edit the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. [4]
The separate Sunday edition of the paper was called the Atlantische Blätter.