Achaz Stehlin

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Achaz Stehlin

Achaz Stehlin (born July 12, 1808 in Rheinhausen-Niederhausen , † April 24, 1885 in Williamsburg , New York ) was second vice-president of the Baden Constituent Assembly of 1849 in June 1849 .

Life

Stehlin was born as the son of the farmer Achaz Stehlin and his wife Francisca. In 1825 he began studying philosophy in Freiburg and worked in the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . After studying theology for two semesters, he turned to law in 1829 and became a legal intern in 1833. He settled in Möhringen , where he married the landlord's daughter Antonia Sonntag, with whom he had a son and five daughters. In 1845 he lived in Ettenheim , where in 1848 he became chairman of the newly founded people's association . In October 1848 the police searched for Stehlin, as he was accused of having been involved in the destruction of the railway line near Ettenheim. With this action, Republicans wanted to hinder the troops that were transported to the south to suppress the Struve coup . Stehlin fled to Rhinau in Alsace and continued to agitate for the republic from there. On April 29, 1849, he was elected delegate for the regional committee at a district assembly of the people's associations in Ettenheim. On May 18, the state committee appointed him civil commissioner for the Ettenheim district, d. H. to the local head of administration of the revolutionary government . On June 2, Stehlin sent execution troops to Kippenheimweiler , because this place had not prepared the 1st contingent for the People's Army. In this context, the Republicans killed a citizen of Kippenheimweiler, for which Stehlin was later made responsible.

On June 3, Stehlin was in constituency IX. District ( Ettenheim , Lahr , Haslach , Wolfach ) elected to one of the four members of this electoral district in the Baden Constituent Assembly . This assembly elected him its second vice-president on June 11th and to the constitutional committee on June 13th. He chaired the 9th session as well as the 7th and 8th sessions of the assembly in part.

After the suppression of the revolution, Stehlin first fled to Strasbourg . In 1850 he emigrated to America, where he ran an inn in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) . On June 19, 1850, Stehlin was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In 1872 Stehlin visited his homeland again and died in the United States in 1885.

literature

  • Thomas Dees: Achaz and Maria Antonia Stehlin - a republican couple and the revolutionary events in the district of Ettenheim . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden , 78th Annual Volume 1998, pp. 275–306 Freiburg historical holdings - digital
  • Sonja-Maria Bauer: The Constituent Assembly in the Baden Revolution of 1849 , 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5164-5

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personal data
SURNAME Stehlin, Achaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vice-President of the Baden Constituent Assembly in 1849
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinhausen (Breisgau)
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1885
Place of death Williamsburg (Brooklyn)