# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hermann-raster
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:06:10.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hermann-raster"
name: "Hermann Raster"
slug: "hermann-raster"
description: "Hermann Raster was an American editor, abolitionist, writer, and anti-temperance political boss who served as chief editor and part-owner of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a widely circulated newspaper in the German language in the United States, between 1867 and 1891. Together with publisher A.C. Hesing, Raster exerted considerable control over the German vote in the Midwest and forced the Republican Party to formally adopt an anti-prohibition platform in 1872, known as the Raster Resolution. He was appointed as Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of Illinois by President Ulysses S. Grant but resigned from this post shortly thereafter. Raster returned to Europe in 1890 when his health began to fail him and died filling a minor diplomatic role in Berlin. Today he is best remembered for his extensive correspondence with Western intellectual and political figures of the time, such as Joseph Pulitzer, Elihu Washburne, and Francis Wayland Parker, much of which is preserved at the Newberry Library in Chicago."
tagline: "American newspaper editor (1827-1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hermann_Raster_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1827-05-06"
deathDate: "1891-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.339561333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Hermann Raster"
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    title: "هيرمان راستر"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Raster"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Raster"
    title: "Hermann Raster"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Raster"
    title: "Hermann Raster"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5740932"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump