Theodor Berkmann

Theodor Adolph Christian Berkmann (born May 20, 1802 in Waldmohr ; † 1870 in New York ) was a German Protestant pastor and in 1849 a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies and the Stuttgart Rump Parliament .

Life

Berkmann was born in 1802 as the son of a pastor and, after attending grammar school in Zweibrücken, studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the University of Erlangen . There he was in 1820 a member of the Old Erlanger fraternity , he is why in 1823 relegated ( Consilium abeundi ) was. From 1825 he worked in church service, was vicar in Mittelbrunn from 1826 to 1828 and in Feilbingert from 1829 to 1831 , before he worked as a pastor in Einselthum from 1831 to 1849 .

In the 1830s he began to participate in the activities of the liberal movement in Kirchheimbolanden . In 1832 he was a participant in the Hambach Festival . In 1833 an investigation was initiated against him because of the dissemination of oppositional ideas in pamphlets and sermons, which resulted in his official suspension . In 1834 a trial followed before the appellate court in Zweibrücken for incitement to riot, in which, however, he was acquitted and reinstated in his office.

In autumn 1848 Berkmann was elected to the 13th Bavarian State Parliament from 1849 as a member of the Kaiserslautern -Kirchheimbolanden constituency.

Before that he was elected in the spring of 1848 in the constituency 5 Pfalz (Kirchheimbolanden) as the 2nd substitute candidate for the Frankfurt National Assembly. For this reason, from June 13, 1849, he was a member of the Stuttgart rump parliament ( Donnersberg faction ) for 5 days . He moved up for Joseph Martin Reichard . At the end of 1849 he was held in custody for 26 days on suspicion of high treason and was suspended for three years. In 1850 Berkmann went to America , where he worked as a farmer and later as a preacher in New York. In 1866 he came to the Palatinate for a visit.

literature

• Rudolf H. Böttcher: Adolph Ernst Theodor Berkmann - "Aufreitzender Preacher and Megalosaurus" . In: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849. A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution . Special issue of the Association for Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies. Volume 14. Issue 6. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1999. pp. 292, 272.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 85.

Web links

• www.demokratiegeschichte.eu/index.php?id=219 short biography
• hdbg.de : Berkmann, Adolph (sic !; person database on the history of the Bavarian Parliament)