Anton Gladbach

Anton Gladbach (born November 30, 1808 in Odenthal ; † November 26, 1873 in Cologne ) was a radical democratic politician . He later spied on Sophie von Hatzfeldt and Ferdinand Lassalle .

Life

Gladbach had been an elementary school teacher in Schallemich since 1832 and an elementary school teacher in Odenthal since 1837 . In 1834 he was warned by the school authorities for drunkenness and debauchery. In 1835 he was sentenced to 3 thalers fine for "physical abuse on the dance floor". Because of his behavior towards the local pastor Gottfried Müseler and the mayor PJ Fritzen, which he felt was improper, he was dismissed from school on July 2, 1847. Instead, he worked for the left-wing Countess Sophie von Hatzfeldt. In May 1848 he was elected to the Prussian National Assembly for the Mülheim am Rhein district. There he was one of the leading forces on the left . Gladbach was president of the democratic club in Berlin . He became known to the public through his charismatic appearances. He corresponded with the editorial staff of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung , which published some of his articles. After the dissolution of the National Assembly, he was heavily involved in the Mülheim district shifting to the left. Since this together with Cologne formed an electoral district and the Cologne electors made up the majority, he was not initially elected to the second chamber of the state parliament. He was only elected in a by-election. However, he could not take up the mandate because the parliament was dissolved again. After the revolution he was persecuted for political reasons. Later he became a police spy, mainly for personal reasons, to monitor Countess Hatzfeldt and Ferdinand Lassalle.

literature

• Brigitte Bilz: Anton Gladbach - from democrat to police spy. In: Fritz Bilz, Klaus Schmidt (eds.): That was a hot March time. Revolution in the Rhineland 1848/49 . PapyRossa Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89438-153-1 , pp. 190-195.
• Klaus-Dieter Gernert (Ed.): Long live freedom. 100 years of the SPD in Rösrath . 2009, p. 11ff.
• Rüdiger Hachtmann : 150 years of the revolution of 1848: Festschriften and research proceeds . Part 2. In: Archives for Social History. Volume 40, 2000, p. 345.
• Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels : Complete Edition . Third section, volume 3: Correspondence, January 1849 to December 1850 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1981, passim (in particular, p. 1489, biographical sketch).
• Jonathan Sperber : Rhineland Radicals. The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848/49. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1991, pp. 86f.