André Amar

Jean-Baptiste André Amar

Jean-Baptiste André Amar (born May 11, 1755 in Grenoble ( Département Isère ), † December 21, 1816 in Paris ) was a French revolutionary.

Life

André Amar was born the son of a head of the mint. After the death of his father, Amar bought the office of lawyer at the Parlement in Grenoble and the post of landlord for the Dauphiné province .

In September 1792, Amar was elected to the National Convention by his home department, Isère . He confessed to the mountain party , voted for the execution of Louis XVI . and advocated the use of a revolutionary tribunal . Amar fought the opponents of the Jacobin dictatorship in southern France in the summer of 1793 and was accepted into the security committee on September 14, 1793 . On October 3, 1793, on behalf of the Security Committee, he had all Girondist MPs who had participated in the federalist revolt indicted. In addition, Amar was largely responsible for the ban on all women's associations in November 1793.

From April 5 to April 20, 1794, Amar presided over the National Convention. A rift between Amar and Robespierre occurred due to the formation of a police office in May 1794, which was directly subordinate to the welfare committee and not to the security committee. Furthermore, the staunch atheist Amar Robespierre rejected the “ cult of the highest being ” as a substitute religion. The personal differences with Robespierre led Amar to participate in the preparations for the overthrow of the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794).

After the 9th Thermidor, Amar affirmed the continuation of the “ reign of terror ” . He was one of the “left” Thermidorians around Barère , Billaud-Varenne and Collot d'Herbois , who wanted to continue the Jacobin rule without Robespierre. After the failed Germinal uprising (April 1, 1795), Amar was imprisoned until the amnesty of October 26, 1795. In early 1796, Amar founded the “Amar Committee”, which only existed for a short time, and supported the “ conspiracy of equals ” around Babeuf . After Babeuf's failure, André Amar was also one of the accused in Vendôme (spring 1797). He was acquitted and banished from Paris.

Amar was no longer politically active. He turned to mysticism , translated Swedenborg and died on December 21, 1816 in Paris.

literature

• Bernd Jeschonnek: Revolution in France 1789–1799. A lexicon. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-05-000801-6 .
• Walter Markov , Albert Soboul : 1789. The great French revolution. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-332-00261-9 .