Alfons of Boddien

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Alfons von Boddien , also Alphons (born February 20, 1802 in Ludwigslust ; † January 31, 1857 in Gleiwitz ; full name: Friedrich Ludwig Eduard Alfons von Boddien ) was a German officer , caricaturist and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49.

Life

Alfons von Boddien was the son of the Grand Ducal Adjutant and later Major General Johann Caspar von Boddien and his wife Henriette, née von Dewitz . He was the oldest of five siblings. After his first school lessons at home, he came to the pedagogy in Halle (Saale) in 1815 . Even as a schoolboy he showed a talent for painting and poetry. However, he struck a career as an officer and was on April 10, 1818 Second Lieutenant in the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Guard . After eight years he resigned from the Mecklenburg service and, after having passed the Prussian officer examination in November 1827, was accepted as a second lieutenant in the 2nd Guards Uhlan Regiment .

In 1835 he came to the 2nd Uhlan Regiment as a first lieutenant and on January 22, 1847 he became captain and chief of a squadron in Pless . When typhoid fever broke out in Upper Silesia in the autumn of 1847 , Boddien was appointed military commissioner for the Rybnik and Pless districts and organized the aid measures of the Prussian military. In February 1848 the 2nd Uhlan Regiment moved into Cracow as a result of the revolution . After the revolution was suppressed by Russian, Austrian and Prussian troops, Boddien was delegated to participate in the commission of inquiry under the Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Heinrich Graf Castiglioni (1790-1853).

In April 1848 he was elected almost unanimously from constituency 34 in Silesia (Pleß district) as a member of the National Assembly in Frankfurt am Main. Here he belonged to the conservative Café Milani faction and made a name for himself less through his not very numerous speeches, but more through his numerous caricatures with which he targeted the deliberations of the National Assembly and its members. In self-caricatures he was known as the National Brush or the Imperial Brush . Eduard Fuchs says of him: Boddien was not an artist, just a moderate dilettante, but he had a lot and sometimes not at all bad funny ideas. One of his best-known and most widespread caricatures is three German professors who draft the draft for the constitution of the German Imperial Army , which caricatures the alleged awkwardness and lengthy negotiations of the Frankfurt National Assembly. This caricature was valued by impractical theorists, especially after the failure of the revolution, as a successful graphic formulation of the criticism of the unworldly “professors' parliament” and therefore often reproduced in historical representations.

  • Self-caricature as National Brush : Speaks very little, sitting on the right and left pinselt

  • Gustav Adolph Roesler as Reichskanarienvogel : little Sings - talks a lot - lives on diets

  • Caricature of Robert Blum's views on politics in France: Sir Robert takes the brother's hand that has been offered. - As a result, the whole French army immediately disbanded.

  • Three German professors draft the draft constitution for the German Imperial Army

From August 1848 Boddien was assigned to the Reich War Ministry to provide services. On September 18, 1848, in the Frankfurt uprising in civilian clothing , he joined the advancing Darmstadt troops in the suppression of the uprising. As a thank you from the Free City of Frankfurt he received a saber of honor with the inscription: “The good Rittmeister v. Boddien - the grateful city of Frankfurt. "

In October 1848 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV appointed him his wing adjutant and, after Boddien had joined the campaign to suppress the Baden Revolution in 1849 , he became a major with effect from January 1, 1850 . On March 17, 1853 he was appointed commander of the 2nd Uhlan Regiment and on March 20, 1853 to lieutenant colonel . In February 1856 he suffered a serious accident when his horse overturned. He recovered again and returned to service in October with a simultaneous promotion to colonel .

Tomb of Alfons von Boddien in Gleiwitz

A little later, however, in January 1857, he died of nerve fever after a brief illness.

family

He married 10 November 1835 Mathilde von Poremski (* 1815), a daughter of the lord of Poremski on Orwontowitz. The marriage resulted in the daughter Harriet (* 1842), who married Julius Anton Karl von Bessel († October 5, 1870) , who later became Colonel and Commander of Infantry Regiment No. 94 in 1862 .

Awards

Works

literature

  • The Knight of Honor of Boddien. In: Berliner Revue. 8 (1857), pp. 474–476 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • Genealogical paperback of the knights and Noble families. 1878. Third volume, p. 64.

Web links

Commons : Alfons von Boddien  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Fuchs: The caricature of the European peoples. Volume 2, Munich: Langen 1921, p. 71
  2. ↑ Information sheet of the Federal Archives, Memorial Site for the Freedom Movements in German History, Rastatt (PDF; 1.3 MB) on the caricature of Boddien
personal data
SURNAME Boddien, Alfons von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boddien, Alphons von; Boddien, Friedrich Ludwig Eduard Alfons von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1857
Place of death Gliwice