Arthur Preuss

{{Short description|German-American journalist, editor and writer}}

Arthur Preuss (1871–1934) was a German-American journalist, editor and writer. He is noted for editing the Fortnightly Review and for opposing Freemasonry, Marxism, and eugenics. He was a conservative intellectual whose father, Eduard Friedrich Reinhold Preuss, had also edited a Catholic newspaper.{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25154032 | jstor=25154032 | title=Arthur Preuss, German-Catholic Exile in America | last1=Conley | first1=Rory T. | journal=U.S. Catholic Historian | date=1994 | volume=12 | issue=3 | pages=41–62 }}

Preuss was a layman in St Louis. His Fortnightly Review was a major conservative voice in English and read closely by church leaders and intellectuals from 1894 to 1934. He also edited Amerika, a Catholic newspaper in St. Louis, serving also as managing editor. Amerika was published without interruption in St. Louis, in German, from 1872 until 1921; at the time of closing, it had a circulation of 25,000 copies. Preuss had succeeded his father Edward as editor.{{Cite news |date=October 15, 1921 |title=Amerika, Daily German Newspaper, to Suspend Oct. 30, After 49 Years |work=St. Louis Globe-Democrat |pages=1}}

Intensely loyal to the Vatican, Preuss upheld the German Catholic community, denounced the heresy of Americanism, promoted the Catholic University of America, and anguished over anti-German sentiment during World War I. He provided lengthy commentary regarding the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the anti-Catholic factor in the presidential campaign of 1928, the hardships of the Great Depression, and the liberalism of the New Deal.{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25154032 | jstor=25154032 | title=Arthur Preuss, German-Catholic Exile in America | last1=Conley | first1=Rory T. | journal=U.S. Catholic Historian | date=1994 | volume=12 | issue=3 | pages=41–62 }}Rory T. Conley, Arthur Preuss: Journalist and Voice of German and Conservative Catholics in America, 1871-1934 (1998).