Schellenberg, August Emil (also Karl August Emil)

Bookseller, printer, newspaper publisher

born: 18.04.1814 in Wiesbaden

died: 08.03.1869 in Wiesbaden

After the death of his older brother Ludwig, Schellenberg took over the company founded by his father Ernst Ludwig Theodor Schellenberg in 1842. While he discontinued the publishing house and continued to run the bookshop at the same level, he expanded the print shop. He built a four-storey company building in Langgasse (today no. 21) and purchased state-of-the-art printing presses with the help of the assets brought into the marriage by his wife Marie (née Guyer).

In 1844, he acquired the Wiesbadener Wochenblatt, from which he created the Wiesbadener Tagblatt (WT) in 1852. In 1848, the year of the revolution, he was persuaded by his fellow liberals to publish the "Nassauische Allgemeine Zeitung" (NAZ), of which Wilhelm Heinrich von Riehl was appointed editor-in-chief. He was also a founding member and board member of the "Association for Freedom, Law and Order", the party that supported the government of Prime Minister Jacob Ludwig Philipp August Franz Hergenhahn.

When the NAZ went out of business in 1854 despite receiving government grants, he founded the "Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung" together with Karl Braun and Friedrich Lang in 1859, but it was already banned in 1861. In contrast to his political newspapers, the Wiesbadener Tagblatt, which was purely an advertising paper at the time, prospered magnificently. As the printing works, for which he purchased Nassau's first steam-powered printing press in 1864, and the Wiesbadener Tagblatt were taking up all his time and the pressure of competition had increased, he handed over the bookshop to Jacob Greiß in 1866.

In 1868, he had the autobiography of his grandfather, the Bierstadt pastor Jacob Ludwig Schellenberg, printed in a small edition. He achieved supra-regional importance when he was one of the founding members of the German National Association together with Karl Braun in 1859.

Schellenberg is buried in the Old Cemetery. His gravestone fell victim to vandalism.