Hermann Kriege

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Hermann Rudolph Kriege (July 25, 1820 – December 31, 1850) was a German‑American journalist and early political reformer. He was born in Lienen, in Westphalia, Prussia, and studied at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich. His writings supported socialist ideas, and in 1844 he was jailed for his views.

After leaving prison, he lived in Bremen and London before moving to New York, where he wrote for the German-language newspaper Volks-Tribun in the 1840s. After the Revolutions of 1848, he briefly returned to Germany, then went back to the United States and settled in Chicago. There he became editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung until 1849, when he returned again to New York.

Kriege suffered from mental illness and died in the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum in New York City in 1850, at the age of 30.