Louis Hentges

Johann Ludwig "Louis" Hentges (born September 6, 1818 in Heilbronn ; † November 9, 1891 ibid) was an innkeeper and brewer from Heilbronn. For many years he was a member of the Heilbronn bourgeois colleges and in 1848/49 a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

His inn Zum Löwen in Heilbronner Paulinenstrasse 1 was the meeting place during the March Revolution in 1848, where he himself also appeared as a speaker. After he had attended a people's assembly in Heidelberg on March 26, 1848, Hentges spoke in the evening in front of the Heilbronn town hall , threatening "reactionaries". A moderate candidate for the Frankfurt National Assembly, the teacher of the Heilbronner Karlsgymnasium , Christian Märklin , first turned anonymously, later openly in the Heilbronner Tagblatt against Hentges, whereupon there was a dispute between the Tagblatt and the revolutionary paper Neckar-Dampfschiff as well as among the citizens came. Märklin was not up to the challenge, so that Hentges came to the line-up as his substitute. In April 1848 Hentges was elected to the National Assembly, in February 1849 he left it again because it did not meet his expectations. His successor was Christian August Klett .

Hentges saw himself as a man of the people who stood up for the rights of the people, but was also involved in controversial decisions taken by the Württemberg government to protect Baden and the Rhine Palatinate , which were in distress due to the revolutionary unrest, and to support the monarchies there should move. As a result, at the beginning of June 1849 there were riots ( cat music ) in front of his house and threats against him, which made him flee his hometown for a week. On June 10, 1849, he published an open declaration in the Neckar-Dampfschiff newspaper in which he expressed his support for the Baden monarchy “not with preference for the monarchical principle, but on the assumption that this would result in the long-desired alliance of states loyal to the constitution would be realized ”, justified.

Heilbronner Louis-Hentges-Straße was named after Louis Hentges in 1924 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c dates and places of birth and death, dates of election into and leaving the National Assembly as well as the year the street was named according to: Gerhard Schwinghammer and Reiner Makowski: Die Heilbronner street names . Edited by the city of Heilbronn. 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 , p. 139
^ Source on Märklin and Hentges: Erwin K. Münz : Christian Märklin . In: 350 years of high school in Heilbronn. Festschrift for the anniversary of the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1971 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives, 17)

literature

Wilhelm Steinhilber: The Heilbronn vigilantes in 1848 and 1849 and their participation in the Baden May Revolution of 1849 . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1959 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives, 5)

Web links

Commons : Louis Hentges - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Louis Hentges . In: Heinrich Best : The members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/1849 (BIORAB-FRANKFURT)

personal data
SURNAME	Hentges, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hentges, Johann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German innkeeper and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 6, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 1891
Place of death	Heilbronn

[Schwinghammer-1] tes and places of birth and death, dates of election into and leaving the National Assembly as well as the year the street was named according to: Gerhard Schwinghammer and Reiner Makowski: Die Heilbronner street names . Edited by the city of Heilbronn. 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 , p. 139

[2] Source on Märklin and Hentges: Erwin K. Münz : Christian Märklin . In: 350 years of high school in Heilbronn. Festschrift for the anniversary of the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium . Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1971 (Publications of the Heilbronn City Archives, 17)