Hermann Raster
American newspaper editor (1827-1891) · United States · On the map · Journalists · Died at 64
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.
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The revolutionary Erfurt Union Parliament, of which Raster was Chief Stenographer during its brief existence
Raster in 1882
A cartoon in Puck caricaturing Grover Cleveland's entry into Washington following his 1885 inauguration in which Raster is featured in the foreground clutching a copy of the Staats-Zeitung alongside other Republican leaders
Raster's grave at Graceland CemeteryAbout this person
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.
