Adolf Mensching

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Adolf Mensching (born May 20, 1815 in Wernigerode ; † July 20, 1881 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer and publicist . The left-liberal advocate and publisher of the Hannoversche Volkszeitung was considered in the Kingdom of Hanover, especially since the German Revolution of 1848/1849, as one of the leading "rebellious" heads against the reprisals of the authorities .

Life

Born in Wernigerode, Adolf Mensching studied at the University of Göttingen and worked in Göttingen as an auditor at the city ​​court there , before he settled as a lawyer in Hanover in 1839.

In particular, from 1848 on, Mensching emerged as a spokesman for the bourgeois - democratic opposition during the so-called "March Revolution" . After the Hanoverian “Volksverein” had been founded from weekly opposition meetings in the Ballhof in May 1848, Mensching temporarily chaired this association, which had up to 1000 members and was dissolved in 1854.

After the Frankfurt National Assembly had proclaimed the “ basic rights of the German people” in the Paulskirche at the end of December 1848 , Adolf Mensching led a “recognition ceremony” on January 21, 1849 in Hanover with 2900 participants. In the same year he said in retrospect:

"It is characteristic of the Hanoverian revolution that it was not made by the people, but by the bourgeoisie ."

After a conservative group held a demonstration on March 8, 1849 , Mensching was charged with allegedly calling for assaults against the event. As a result, on March 27th, Mensching was sentenced to three weeks in prison. This procedure prompted Mensching to write his "... contribution to the cultural history of the [Hanoverian] police" in the same year .

In 1851, Mensching was responsible for the last three issues of the magazine Deutsche Arbeiterhalle - weekly for the working and non-dispossessed classes ... after the publisher and editor Ludwig Stechan was arrested on June 7, 1851. The sheet was published by “ Verlag Pockwitz ”.

Also in 1851, Adolf Mensching, together with other members of the Volksverein within the parish of the Kreuzkirche , founded the "Association for Religious Progress". The organ of the association was the " Hannoversche Volkszeitung " published by Mensching , later the " Norddeutsche Volkszeitung " with Carl Kindermann and Adolf Streckfuß as main employees. For a time the Volkszeitung was the central paper of all Volksvereine in the Kingdom of Hanover , and from 1851 it also became the organ of the North German Workers' Association until the newspaper had to stop its publication in 1854. In the same year the Hanoverian Volksverein was dissolved.

In the meantime, the Hanoverian police director Karl Wermuth created a “ black list ” in 1853 with the names of 102 Hanoverian citizens. There was an additional remark on Adolf Mensching: “ Communist . Much compromised in clubs and by newspapers ”.

Others

After the address book of the Royal capital and residence Hannover the lawyer lived in the building in the revolution 1849 Market Street 24 , as later Supreme Court lawyer 1868, the home market street 45 II .

Fonts

  • The Capital Insurance Institution in Hanover, a new savings institution: according to its nature and purpose for readers of all classes , Hanover: Helwing, 1847
  • The state constitutional law for the Kingdom of Hanover with the amendments determined by the law of September 5, 1848. Compiled and annotated by Adolf Mensching , Hanover: Pockwitz, 1848
  • My sentence was three weeks in prison. A contribution to the cultural history of the police , 1849
  • Adolf Mensching, August Schiebe: German commercial law presented in a common form for practical use ... , second edition increased by an appendix “The freight traffic of the railways”, Celle: Verlag der Schulze'schen Buchhandlung, 1864; Digitized
  • Adolf Mensching (ed.), Christoph Daniel Ebeling: The introductory law to the general German commercial code for the Kingdom of Hanover , Celle: Schulze'sche Buchhandlung, 1865; Digitized

literature

  • Dirk Riesener : Police and Political Culture in the 19th Century. The Hanover Police Department and the political public in the Kingdom of Hanover , (= Dissertation 1996 at the University of Hanover =) (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Vol. 35 =) (= Sources and studies on the general history of Lower Saxony in modern times , Bd. 15 =), Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5841-8 , passim
  • Karl Georg Ludwig Wermuth, Wilhelm Stieber : The Communist Conspiracies of the Nineteenth Century. In the official order for the use of the police authorities of all German federal states on the basis of the relevant judicial and police acts ... (Print in Berlin: AW Hayn):
    • First part, 1853: The historical account of the investigations in question , pp. 108, 118
    • Second part, 1854: The personal details of the persons appearing in the Communist investigations , passim
  • Dieter Brosius : Mensching. In: The industrial city. From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2, From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 309f., 327; online through google books
  • Klaus Mlynek : March Revolution 1848/49. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 421f.
  • Klaus Mlynek: PEOPLE, (1) Adolf. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 250f .; online through google books
  • Klaus Mlynek: Mensching, (1) Adolf. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover. From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 438.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Klaus Mlynek: MENSCHING ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: March Revolution 1848/49 (see literature)
  3. ^ Karl Georg Ludwig Wermuth, Wilhelm Stieber: The Communist Conspiracies ... (see literature)
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek: German Workers' Hall. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 125f.
  5. ↑ Elke Brünle: libraries of Workers' Education Associations in the Kingdom of Württemberg. 1848 - 1918 (= Mainzer Studien zur Buchwissenschaft , vol. 20), also dissertation 2009 at the University of Mainz, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-447-06195-7 , p. 84; online through google books
  6. ^ Karl Wermuth, Wilhelm Stieber: Kindermann, Carl. In: The Communist Conspiracies ... Part 2 (see literature), passim; online through google books
  7. ↑ Compare this preview from the Verein für Computergenealogie
  8. ^ Address book from 1868
personal data
SURNAME Mensching, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and publicist, one of the leaders of the March Revolution in the Kingdom of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1881
Place of death Hanover