Peter Imandt

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Peter Imandt

Peter Imandt (born March 17, 1823 in Noswendel , † October 28, 1897 in Broughty Ferry , today a district of Dundee ) was a German representative of the labor movement and a revolutionary .

Life

His father Michael Imandt, who worked as a "tax messenger " in the Saarland, died in Imandt's year of birth . His mother Magarethe, b. Früßen, moved to Trier with her six children , where Peter Imandt and his older brother Johann Anton Caspar Imandt attended the Trier grammar school. In October 1843 he continued his education in Düsseldorf and received his Abitur certificate on August 30, 1844. After graduating from high school, he first studied (1845–1846) Catholic theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Caspar Imandt, who attended the royal high school in Düsseldorf, became a language teacher in Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Rheydt and Uerdingen and then a gymnastics and fencing teacher in Krefeld . There he founded the first gymnastics club based on the model of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in 1844 and was the senior executive of the German Catholic community that had formed under the influence of Johannes Ronges . Peter Imandt also joined this congregation and took part in the “ pre-March ” activities of his brother.

Peter Imandt exmatriculated in Bonn at the end of July 1846 and enrolled on October 24, 1846 at the University of Greifswald as a philology student . During the 1848/49 closed it with other students Greifswald a volunteer corps to which from April 1848 Holstein Schleswig War in Jutland fought. The company to which Imandt belonged, however, soon came into opposition to authoritarian officers, was threatened with court-martial and therefore resigned in June 1848. In Koblenz its members were arrested and referred to their homes. Peter Imandt returned to Trier, where he joined the “Democratic Association” . He helped his brother Caspar, who was about to be arrested for revolutionary actions, to flee to France. On May 18, 1849, Peter Imandt and Victor Schily participated in the Prüm Zeughaussturm , which is why the Zweibrücken judicial authorities wanted him on a wanted list and later sentenced him to death. He was involved as a vigilante in the Palatinate and Baden revolution . After their failure, he fled to Switzerland. His brother Caspar died of cholera in Paris on July 17, 1849 .

Peter Imandt was politically active in Geneva in the vicinity of the German Workers' Association, which was founded there in 1834 by emigrants, and in 1851 he headed the Geneva group of the League of Communists . This was initially close to the faction of August Willich (1810–1878) and Karl Schapper (1812–1870), who had fallen out with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1850 . When the active members of the Federation were expelled from Switzerland, Peter Imandt moved to England in 1852.

Peter Imandt's long-term collaboration with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels began in London, and he has since moved towards their positions. From 1856 to 1859 Imandt corresponded under the sign §§ for the Trier'sche Volks-Zeitung . On September 18, 1867 Marx Imandt dedicated a copy of the recently published first volume of Capital . From 1855, Imandt worked as a teacher in Scotland at the High School of Dundee for over 40 years . There, too, he maintained contact with his old comrades in arms, such as Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876), Johann Philipp Becker (1809–1886), Adolf Cluss (1825–1905), Elard Christian Biscamp (1821–1882), Heinrich Heise (1820– 1860) and Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900).

Imandt died of heart failure in Dundee on October 28, 1897. He left a wife and three children.

Wanted poster 1849

“Peter Imandt, 26 years old, candidate in philology, lives in Trier, 5 shoes 2 inches tall, with brown hair, a free forehead, brown eyebrows, ordinary nose, ordinary mouth, brown complete beard, complete teeth, wide and through the beard covered chin, healthy color, stocky figure. "

- Kiehnbaum, 2002, p. 69

Peter Imandt Society

In 1999 the Peter Imandt Society was founded in Saarbrücken as an association for political education and culture . In Saarland she takes on the tasks of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , which is closely related to the Die Linke party. Its chairman is Michael Quetting (* 1954), departmental secretary of the ver.di district of Saar.

Works

  • Gymnastics and artisans' associations . In: Rheinische Turnhalle. Journal of Gymnastics . Edited by C. Imandt. 1847, no.5.
  • Wilhelm von der Nahmer / Peter Imandt: Call! Greifswald April 11, 1848.
  • The active resistance . In: Democratic leaflets . No. 19 of December 7, 1848.
  • The democratic leaflets . In: Democratic leaflets . No. 25 of December 28, 1848.
  • On the workers question . In: Democratic leaflets . No. 11 of February 8, 1849.
  • The Kinkelsche Anleihe and the Volksbund . In: Philadelphian Democrat of November 22, 1852.
  • Correspondence . In: Philadelphian Democrat . No. 227 of November 13, 1852.

literature

  • Criminal procedure against Dr. C. Green and 22 comrades. Because of treason resp. Looting of the arsenal in Prüm. Negotiated before the Assize in Trier in January 1850 . Lintz, Trier 1850 digitized
  • Indictment files, drawn up by the K. General State Procuratorate of the Palatinate, together with the verdict of the Prosecution Chamber of the K. Appellate Court of the Palatinate in Zweibrucken on June 29, 1850, in the investigation against Martin Reichard, dismissed notary in Speyer and 332 consorts, for armed Rebellion against the armed power, high treason and state treason, etc. Ritter, Zweibrücken 1850. Digitized
  • The Death of Mr. PJ Imandt . In: Dundee Courier. October 28, 1897.
  • Erhard Kiehnbaum: Peter Imandt. Greifswald student and comrade in arms of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Greifswald 1987 (contributions to the history of the university. Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald 3).
  • Erhard Kiehnbaum: Peter Imandt. A biography (1823–1897). Friend and comrade in arms of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A forgotten Saarlander . Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-320-02030-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Imandt (Ed.): Rheinische Turnhalle. Journal of Gymnastics . 1847.
personal data
SURNAME Imandt, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Helix
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1897
Place of death Dundee