George Schneider

George Schneider may refer to:

See also

George Schneider (banker)

George Schneider (13 December 1823, in Pirmasens, Rhenish Bavaria – 14 September 1905, in Colorado Springs, Colorado) was an Illinois journalist and banker. He was a German refugee, one of the Forty-Eighters.

Biography

Early years

The son of Ludwig Schneider, a public official, he was educated in the Latin school of his native place. He became a journalist at the age of 21, and worked for several German newspapers. Strongly sympathetic with the revolutionaries of 1848, he took an active part. When the revolution in the Rhine Province was crushed by the Bavarian government's Prussian allies, he withdrew to Baden, then fled to France, and finally emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City in July 1849.

Neue Zeit

With his brother, also an exile, he established the Neue Zeit in St. Louis, Missouri, which was devoted to the free discussion of questions of interest to the large German population of that city, including the question of slavery, to which a large majority of them were strongly opposed. During the following year the office of this paper was destroyed by fire.