Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Foersterling

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Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Försterling (born September 3, 1827 in Dresden , † March 10, 1872 in ibid) was a social democratic politician. Among other things, he was President of the LADAV and a member of the North German Reichstag .

Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Foersterling

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Emil Försterling was the son of a locksmith. He became politically active early on. During the revolution of 1848/49 he was chairman of a workers' association in Clausthal-Zellerfeld . During the Reaction Era , he was watched by police as a Democrat. For the year 1859 it can be proven that he gave a speech at the foundation festival of the Hamburg Educational Association for Workers. Försterling met Georg Adolf Demmler in connection with the construction of the Schwerin Palace . He was the court building officer responsible for the construction and at the same time a promoter of the emerging labor movement . Demmler provided Försterling with the financial means to set up as a master coppersmith in Dresden.

There he became a member of the free religious community and was active in numerous associations of the local bourgeoisie. In 1861 he was elected chairman of the Dresden educational association for tradespeople, from which the local workers' education association emerged a year later . In addition, Försterling was a member of the German National Association and campaigned in 1862 to reduce the membership fee so that workers and poorer citizens could also become members. He was also a member of the committee of the Dresden Fleet Association. In the same year he was a delegate at the Workers' Day in Nuremberg and was committed to the organized labor movement again. In 1863 he came to the General German Workers' Association through Julius Vahlteich , where he worked as an agitator in Saxony and was elected to the board in 1864. In 1865 he became the club's main cashier. From 1866 Försterling was a city councilor in Dresden and is considered the first social democratically oriented member in a Saxon community council.

When the ADAV split up, Försterling went over to Countess Hatzfeldt's LADAV and remained one of the countess' most loyal supporters until his death. When the new organization came into being, he was again active as an agitator and, due to his success, was elected club president in 1867. However, he was not up to this position.

In the Reichstag election of February 12, 1867, Försterling ran in several constituencies without success. So in the 4th Saxon constituency of the city of Dresden on the right of the Elbe, where he received 257 votes. Friedrich Oskar von Schwarze ( Free Conservative Party ) was elected here in the runoff election on August 31, 1867, and Franz Jacob Wigard was elected here in the runoff election on August 31, in the 5th Saxon constituency of Dresden left the Elbe, where he received 531 votes with 3749 votes from the German Progressive Party . He is also running in the 9th Freiberg constituency , where he received 24.4% of the votes in the first ballot. In the by-election on August 31, 1867, he was elected to the Reichstag in the 16th Saxon constituency of Chemnitz with 5512 votes. Where the runoff election he had obtained 2,089 votes. During his time as a Member of Parliament, he spoke up eight times. Last time on May 13, 1869. Most contributions were related to universal suffrage. One amount concerned the salt tax .

After he was elected to the North German Reichstag, Fritz Mende took over the leadership of the LADAV. However, Försterling often took over the representation of the often ill president and remained an influential member of the board. Försterling resigned his seat in the Reichstag on April 5, 1870. Probably thanks to financial donations from Countess Hatzfeldt, he was elected chief cashier of the LADAV in 1870. In 1871 he took over the vice-presidency again and carried out its reorganization. In the last years of his life he lived privately and for business in “Zahngasse 10.1”.

At the Berlin General Assembly in 1872 there were still 12 Lassallians in Chemnitz. In July 1872 the party newspaper, the "Freie Zeitung", had to stop appearing due to lack of money. Professional and personal strokes of fate - death of the wife and their child - led to a deep psychological crisis. His body was not yet cold when the bailiff affixed his seal. In 1896 a monument was erected over his grave by the Social Democrats.

Honors

A street in Dresden has been named after him since 1953.

Publications

  • (Maiden speech) on September 24, 1867 in the Reichstag.
  • Report on the activities of the Reichstag deputy Emil Försterling (Lassalleaner), elected in the Kingdom of Saxony, (16th constituency: City and court office of Chemnitz) in the by-election on September 11, 1867, with 5512 votes; exactly after d. stenograph sent to every member of the Reichstag. Reports . Hamburg 1867.
  • Circular . In: Democratic weekly paper . Leipzig. No. 31 of July 31, 1869. Supplement, p. 356.

literature

  • Mende has spoken after all - Försterling (the nicely pushed 'bei Steit') smelled! In: Democratic weekly paper . Leipzig 1869, No. 21 of May 22, 1869, p. 232.
  • Gustav Mayer : Johann Baptist von Schweitzer and the social democracy. A contribution to the history of the German labor movement. Gustav Fischer, Jena 1909, pp. 198 f., 202, 205, 296, 315, 437 f. Digitized archive.org
  • August Bebel : From my life . Edited by Ursula Hermann with the assistance of Wilfried Henze and Ruth Rüdiger. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983 (= August Bebel. Selected speeches and writings . Volume 6), pp. 61, 65, 104, 105, 127, 132, 165, 308.
  • Ernst Heilmann : History of the labor movement in Chemnitz and the Erzgebirge . Social Democratic Association for the 16th Saxon Reichstag constituency, Chemnitz 1912, p. 22–55, especially p. 52 f. Saxony digital
  • Christine Kling-Mathey: Countess Hatzfeldt. 1805 to 1881. A biography . JHW Dietz Nachf, Bonn 1989. ISBN 3-8012-0142-2 , pp. 184 f, 191, 196 ff., 200, 204, 207, 224 f., 298 ff.
  • Wilhelm Heinz Schröder : Social democratic parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag. 1867-1933. Biographies, chronicles, election documentation. A manual . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1995, pp. 98 and 444.
  • Toni Offermann: The first German workers' party. Organization, distribution and social structure of ADAV and LADAV 1863–1871. JHW Dietz Bachf., Bonn, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-8012-4122-X (book edition + CD-ROM), pp. 162-165
  • Wolfgang Schröder : Leipzig - the cradle of the German labor movement. Roots and development of the workers' education association 1848/49 - 1878/81 . Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-320-02214-3 , pp. 61, 126, 156, 159f., 162, 164 f., 212.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Försterling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The collector. A sheet for entertainment and instruction. (Supplement to the Augsburger Abendzeitung.) . Augsburg 1873. Volume 42, No. 1 of January 4, 1873, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Roswitha Borrmann: The Dresden Workers' Movement 1861 to 1869. An investigation into organizational-historical and political aspects of the political-ideological constitution of the local proletariat . Phil. Diss. Dresden 1989, p. 19 ff.
  3. ^ Advertisement sheet for the national association's weekly publication . No. 52 from May 2, 1862. Digitized
  4. ↑ Ernst Heilmann: History of the workers' movement in Chemnitz and the Erzgebirge , p. 52 f.
  5. ↑ August Bebel writes: "In Dresden, where the chairman of the Dresden workers' education association, Försterling, joined Lassalle with his small group of supporters in early 1864". ( From my life . Edited by Ursula Hermann with the collaboration of Wilfried Henze and Ruth Rüdiger. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983 (= August Bebel. Selected speeches and writings . Volume 6), p. 61.
  6. ↑ About a fifth of the members of the ADAV went over to the LADAV and Försterling was the "apron president" of the countess of the new association. So Gustav Mayer: Baptist von Schweitzer and the Social Democracy , p. 198.
  7. ↑ "Of course, it is a difficult step for me, because for the third time I am defeating a whole existence in the hill." (Försterling to Sophie von Hatzfeldt December 9, 1866 quoted from: Wolfgang Schröder: Leipzig - the cradle of the German workers' movement. Roots and becoming of the Arbeiterbildungsverein 1848/49 - 1878/81 , p. 159.)
  8. ↑ "During these days Försterling was in Freiberg, where a new community was founded, as well as in Hainichen and Oedeerau". Letters from Countess Hatzfeld to Carl Schallmayer in Hamburg. Quoted from Gustav Mayer: Johann Baptist von Schweitzer und die Sozialdemokratie , p. 437.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Schröder: Leipzig - the cradle of the German labor movement. Roots and development of the workers' education association 1848/49 - 1878/81 , pp. 160 and 164–165.
  10. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 228.
  11. ↑ Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Desden for the year 1868 , p. 64. Digitized
  12. ↑ Ernst Heilmann: History of the workers' movement in Chemnitz and the Erzgebirge, p. 53 f.
  13. ↑ Schweitzer and morality
personal data
SURNAME Forsterling, Friedrich Wilhelm Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forsterling, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democratic politician (LADAV)
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1872
Place of death Dresden