Aloys Beckert

Aloys Beckert, after July 1849

Aloys Beckert (born September 24, 1814 in Neunkirchen ; †?) First appeared in the run-up to the Baden Revolution of 1848/49 through the establishment of popular associations and his commitment to arming the people, during the revolutionary unrest he was involved in logistical tasks within the revolutionary Entrusted movement.

Life

Beckert was the son of the unmarried Josepha Himmelsehr. Nothing is known about his father, the surname Beckert is added to the baptismal register without any further reasons. He attended elementary school in Neunkirchen, and later high schools in Heidelberg and Bruchsal . He began studying at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , which he had to break off quickly for financial reasons. In 1837 he became part of the official orphan's council in Schwetzingen , later he moved to Mosbach in the same position , and then to Hardheim in 1840 . After a trial for forgery of documents, Beckert came to the Schaffnerei in Sinsheim , then as a biller at the Rastatt Oberamt , where he also worked as a private teacher. As early as 1842/43 he was close to the so-called People's Party , which led to harassment and his expulsion from the Rastatt district. He came to Ettlingen , where he worked again as a biller. He was a member of the gymnastics club, gave weekly democratic lectures and was soon subjected to renewed harassment. During the Hecker uprising , he temporarily fled to France after an investigation had been opened against him. After half a year he returned to Baden and was again active as an invoicing party, now in the Oberkirch office. There he campaigned for the establishment of popular associations , which u. a. then also happened in Önsbach , where the mayor and the municipal council joined his people's association. Other popular associations he founded existed in Ulm , Mösbach , Erlach and Zusenhofen . The main concern of these associations was the armament of the people. In Diersheim Beckert initiated the establishment of a vigilante .

In May 1849 Beckert agitated in Offenburg and Rastatt for the armament of the people and was hired in Karlsruhe by Lorenz Brentano in the writing of the revolutionary movement. On May 15, 1849, he received the post of catering commissioner, and soon after that of military commissioner. At the beginning of June 1849 he was busy drawing up armed forces in various Baden towns. With this task he was u. a. in Hügelsheim and Stollhofen , but was then entrusted with other tasks because of his rigorous methods, against which there had been complaints. On June 15, 1849, he took over the drafting of the vigilante groups in Freistett , after which he accompanied the vigilante groups of the Rheinbischofsheim office to Achern and then turned to Lörrach and Kandern to inspect other vigilante groups. In the days around the battle at Waghäusel (June 21, 1849) Beckert was responsible for procuring provisions for the revolutionaries gathered at Rastatt. As the situation for the revolutionaries worsened, he was increasingly entrusted with the repatriation of battle-weary vigilante groups to the combat areas, whereby, as in Rheinbischofsheim on June 27 and 28, 1849, various disputes broke out and Beckert ultimately, at the latest after the skirmishes along the entire Murglinie on June 29, 1849, could no longer prevail in the population. Beckert was thereupon again busy with the administration of the catering in Rastatt. In the fortress of Rastatt the revolutionaries were trapped by opposing troops. On July 6, a group of revolutionaries managed to break out into the Rheinau, where Beckert also hurried to get drinks. In the Rheinau he lost his left forearm due to a wound and was brought back to the hospital in Rastatt as a wounded man, where after the end of the revolution on August 21, 1849 he was one of the prisoners against whom a trial was to be opened.

On September 9, 1849, he applied for permission to emigrate to America, for which his uncle in Neckargemünd and the Neunkirchen community were willing to give money. Was the permission was not granted before the verdict, so Beckert on 7 June 1850 for high treason to ten years in prison, including four years in solitary confinement, sentenced, of which he remained until his pardon on December 16, 1851 and a half years in Bruchsal was serving . Little is known about his later life. He does not seem to have emigrated to America, as he is still mentioned in his traditional occupation as a biller on May 24, 1862 in Obrigheim .

literature

• Willibald Reichwein: Aloys Beckert from Neunkirchen , aged forty-eight , in: Badische Heimat, Heft 3/4, 1958