Karl Eduard Nobiling

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Karl Eduard Nobiling ( Illustrirte Zeitung 1878)

Karl Eduard Nobiling (born April 10, 1848 in the Kolno domain near Birnbaum , Province of Posen , † September 10, 1878 in Berlin ) committed an assassination attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm I.

Life

Nobiling was born as the son of a domain tenant, studied political science and agriculture in Halle and passed the philosophical doctoral examination in Leipzig in 1876 with a thesis on agriculture in the Saalkreis . During his studies and his work in the statistical office in Dresden , Nobiling entered into relationships with socialist agitators.

Assassination attempt on the emperor

Nobiling tried to shoot Wilhelm I on June 2, 1878, barely a month after Max Hödel's attempted murder . From the house on Unter den Linden 18 he fired two shots from a double-barreled shotgun loaded with coarse shot at the Kaiser driving past in an open car, seriously injuring Wilhelm with over 30 pellets , but not fatally.

When Nobiling found himself discovered, he shot himself in the temple with a revolver while attempting suicide and was then overwhelmed by passers-by. Due to his severe wounding, Nobiling's statements in the police station on Molkenmarkt were only fragmentary and did not allow any conclusions to be drawn about an anarchist or socialist motivated act, even if Nobiling had had loose contact with socialist agitators before the act. The Swiss anarchist Paul Brousse, for example, described Nobiling's attack in the magazine L'Avant-Garde as “republican”, but not as anarchist.

Nobiling's health improved in the following weeks, he was questioned several times by examining magistrate Johl and he also received visits from his mother and one of his sisters. The questionnaires did not provide any evidence of the people behind them, but rather made it clear that Nobiling's act was motivated by his precarious financial situation, fear of the future, craving for recognition and confused socialist views. He made another suicide attempt on the night of September 2–3, before dying a week later of meningitis from the bullet stuck in his brain since the first attempt at suicide.

Although a connection between the attacks and social democracy could not be proven, Nobilings and Hödel's actions were instrumentalized by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to enforce the Socialist Law .

The other family members took the surname "Edeling" because of the attack.

Literary response

Theodor Fontane (1819–1898) rhymed with the unsuccessful assassination attempt:

“That wasn't classy, ​​Nobiling!
You took the matter too lightly.
You shoot shot with a few grains.
Not a German Kaiser dead!
You were not a hero, you were a rogue,
the hero, who was the emperor's helmet ,
The imagined the double run
and caught the thirty grains,
him celebrating my song, it celebrates my song -
Long live the crushing-Winkelried. "

Works

  • Contributions to the history of agriculture in the Saalkreis of the Province of Saxony (Diss. Phil. Leipzig 1876), Berlin 1876.

literature

  • Aanslag op het leven van Keizer Wilhelm 2 June 1878 . cit. 1878 (in it: The assassination attempt on Se. Maj. the Kaiser Wilhelm on June 2, 1878 ... carried out by Dr. phil. Carl Eduard Nobiling ; Deutsches Monday-Blatt . Berlin, June 3, 1878; 1 o'clock at noon. The latest special edition of the Berliner Börsen-Courier ; Der Reporter. 6 June 1878 ; Der Reporter. 7 June 1878 )
  • Freiherr von Hertzberg : The assassination attempt on His Majesty the Kaiser . Self-published by A. Schulze, Berlin 1878
  • Paul Brousse: Hoedel, Nobiling et la Propagande par le fait , in: L'Avant-Garde (July 17, 1878), pp. 1f.
  • Wilhelm Schlötel: Doctor Nobiling and his teachers. Satyr game with trilogy. Intended for private communication . Müller, Stuttgart 1879
  • Ernest A. Vizetelly: The Anarchists: Their Faith and Their Record . Edinburgh 1911 (detailed description of the sequence of events in Chapter 3).
  • Sven Felix Kellerhoff : assassin. Insane, seduced, criminals. Arean, Erftstadt 2005, ISBN 3-89996-344-X , p. 31 ff.
  • Marcus Mühlnikel: 'Prince, are you unharmed?' Assassinations in the German Empire 1871–1914. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77860-4

Web links

Wikisource: Trust! look! whom?  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: The attempted murder against the German Kaiser Wilhelm I on June 2, 1878 (magazine article)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Socialist Law 1878–1890 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1980, p. 44.
  2. ^ Theodor Fontane: Kaiser Wilhelms Helm , in: Werke, Schriften und Briefe , Section 1, Vol. 6, Hanser, Munich 1978, p. 571 f.
personal data
SURNAME Nobiling, Karl Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German assassin who carried out an assassination attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm I.
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolo domain near Birnbaum , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1878
Place of death Berlin