Franz Zitz

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Franz Heinrich Zitz (born November 18, 1803 in Mainz , † April 30, 1877 in Munich ) was a German politician and member of the National Assembly in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt .

Life

Franz Zitz was the son of the wine merchant Franz Ferdinand Zitz and his first wife Barbara nee Schneiderhenn. Franz Zitz, who was a Catholic denomination, studied law in Giessen and Göttingen . In Gießen he became a member of the Corps Rhenania in 1822 . After graduating as Dr. iur. in Giessen he worked as a lawyer in Alzey and Mainz. In Alzey he joined the Freemason Lodge Carl to the new light and was elected speaker of the lodge. In Mainz he was involved in the Carnival Association (1843–1844 President of the Mainz Carneval Association 1838 eV), which became largely politicized under his presidency. He was married to the Mainz writer Kathinka Zitz-Halein for several years from 1837.

In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . In 1848 Zitz successfully campaigned for the demands of the March Revolution with the Grand Ducal Hessian government in Darmstadt . During a large popular assembly on March 8, 1848, Zitz gave a speech on the March demands from the balcony of the theater , which ended with cheers for “freedom, order and legality”. He was the leader of the Mainz Democrats and Colonel of the Civil Guard. At the first meeting of the District Council of Rheinhessen on November 29, 1848 he was elected President.

In the 11th electoral term (1847-1849) he was a member of the second chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In the estates he represented the constituency of the city of Mainz .

In the election to the National Assembly he received 214 of 296 votes. There he soon belonged to the radical left wing, the Donnersberg faction . On March 1, 1849, he resigned from the National Assembly because it was too moderate for him.

In 1849 he and Ludwig Bamberger took part in the imperial constitution campaign in ( Baden and the Palatinate ) at the head of the Rhenish Hessian Freikorps . After the defeat of the revolutionaries, he emigrated to the USA, where he worked as a lawyer together with Julius Froebel . In 1857 he was able to return to Germany after an amnesty .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 56 , 158
  2. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
  3. ↑ Straße der Demokratie → Mainz ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strasse-der-demokratie.de

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literature

  • Ludwig Fränkel:  Zitz, Katharina and Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 373-379.
  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 280.
  • Egbert Weiß: Corps students in the Paulskirche. In: Einst und Jetzt , special issue 1990, Munich 1990, p. 48.
  • Klaus Dietrich Hoffmann: The history of the province and the administrative district of Rheinhessen, 1985, ISBN 3-87854-047-7 , page 42 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Zitz, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zitz, Franz Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1877
Place of death Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria , German Empire