Career
Reared in Baltimore, Maryland, and educated at the then famous Professor Scheib"s School, C. F. Pietsch moved to Chicago in 1866 where, from 1867, he became associated with newspapers printed in the German language. From that same year, he was secretary, treasurer, and general business manager of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung Company (founded April 21, 1848), until the paper was bankrupted on February 15, 1899. In 1900, he founded Das Wochenblatt, a weekly American newspaper printed in the German language, headquartered at 35 North Dearborn Street—"If You Can Read German, Subscribe to Das Wochenblatt, One Dollar Per Year, All Authentic News in a Nutshell"—which he was still publishing in 1920 at the time of his death.
His obituary refers to him as "Chicago"s oldest publisher.".