Alfred von Behr

Alfred Louis Ernst von Behr (born November 6, 1812 in Koethen , † January 1, 1862 in St. Louis , USA ) was a German physician and politician .

Life

As the son of the late Duke of Anhalt secretly fiscal council and chamber president August Ludwig von Behr and brother Ottmar von Behr , studied Alfred von Behr after attending high school in Wetzlar and after it there relegated had been high school in Köthen, jurisprudence and then Medicine in Leipzig , Heidelberg , Paris , Zurich and Berlin . During his studies in 1833 he became a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft Franconia , which is why he was expelled from Heidelberg University in 1834 and went to Paris. Accusations that he belonged to the Heidelberg Political Club and were an accessory to the Frankfurt Wachensturm could not ultimately be proven. It was entered in the Black Book of the Frankfurt Central Authority (1833-1838). The Prussian Ministerial Commission had him observed in 1835 and issued an arrest warrant in the event that he entered Prussia. In Paris he was in contact with members of Junge Deutschland and took part in a celebration for the Hambach Festival . When he went to Berlin to study in 1838, he was observed again and expelled from the city in 1839. In Berlin he and his brother had connections with the Young Hegelians . In Heidelberg he was in 1839 with summa cum laude for Dr. med. PhD . In 1840 he passed the medical state examination in Anhalt-Köthen and went back to Berlin in 1841, where he mainly studied with Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach . He was able to revoke another expulsion order from the Minister of the Interior by applying to the Prussian king, as he received a residence permit on the basis of a cabinet order of June 17, 1841.

A few months later he went to Koethen, where he worked as a general practitioner and published medical publications. He was still in contact with the opposition in Prussia. In 1847 Hoffmann von Fallersleben visited him . In Koethen he was a member of the Ratskellergesellschaft , in which liberals and democrats came together. During the revolution of 1848/49 he was on the board of the Koethen democratic people's association and was editor of the democratic newspaper Die Lichtpze. A most necessary organ for the time. He also worked for the Anhaltische Volks-Zeitung and the newspaper Die Verfassungs . He became a member of the State Parliament of Anhalt-Köthen and the United State Parliament of Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen. In the provisional committee to discuss the constitutional question , he was instrumental in the development of a democratic constitution for Anhalt-Dessau and Anhalt-Köthen. In 1849 he gave shelter to fugitive democrats, including Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin .

In 1850 he emigrated to the USA, where he lived with his brother in Sisterdale and later opened a medical practice in St. Louis. His friend Enno Sander lived there , with whom he had experienced the revolution in Koethen and who looked after him at the end of his life. Behr died in his house in 1862. In the USA he had given up his title of nobility .

Publications

• Paperback of Human Anatomy. Erlangen, 1845. (together with Julius Minding ) (digitized version)

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 61-63.