Ernst Henrici

Carl Ernst Julius Henrici (10 December 1854, Berlin – 10 July 1915, Döbeln) was a German grammar school teacher, writer, colonial adventurer and anti-Semitic politician.

Together with his older brother, Emil, a grammar school teacher, he founded the Society for German philology and published much work on linguistic and historical topics.

Politically active Henrici was initially involved in the liberal German Progress Party (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei); after 1880, however, he became a radical anti-Semitic agitator in the Berlin movement.

Henrici did not participate in the alliance of conservatives and anti-Semites in Conservativen Central Committee, but stood in the Reichstag elections as an Independent.

His attempt to gain as foothold as a planter in the then German colony in West Africa failed through inadequate agricultural and geographical knowledge.

In 1902, he took over a job as a mechanical engineer in Baltimore, in Maryland in the United States at the well-known foundry and metal-working company, Hayward, Bartlett, and Co.

In 1908, he travelled again to the United States, held lectures in New York City and then briefly operated a farm in America near Mechanicsville in Maryland.

In Klinga he led from 1913 the State school home and was editor of the Evangelical national anti-Semitic journal "Frankfurt Viewpoint".