Anton Probsthan

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Adam Johann Anton Friedrich Probsthan , not Adam Probsthan (born January 13, 1792 in Strelitz , † December 31, 1882 in Fürstenberg / Havel ) was a German Protestant theologian and educator. In 1815 he was one of the founders of the original fraternity.

Life

Anton Probsthan was a son of the Protestant theologian and first pastor in Strelitz Johann Christian Probsthan (1768–1842) and his first wife Caroline Henriette, née. Pfitzner († 1810). The fraternity and Protestant pastor Carl Loholm (1795-1880) and the teacher and Prussian provincial school councilor Adolf Giesebrecht later became his brother-in-law.

Probsthan grew up with his grandparents from 1801 and first attended the cathedral school in Halberstadt from 1806 . In 1808 he returned to Mecklenburg and attended the Carolinum grammar school in Neustrelitz , where he passed Michaelis' Abitur in 1811. From 1811 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Jena . In 1812 he became a member of the Vandalia Jena corps country team. On March 16, 1813, Probsthan rode from Jena to Breslau with other vandals and, when they arrived on March 25, joined the Lützow hunters as a volunteer. He was an eyewitness to Theodor Körner's death in the Rosenow Forest near Lützow (Mecklenburg) and one of those who buried him in Wöbbelin . In 1814 he became a member of the Jena Armed Forces, a student country defense unit . In 1815 he and eight other members of the Vandalia were among the eleven founders of the original fraternity in Jena. He finished his studies at Michaelis in 1815. In the years 1816/1817, as was not uncommon for theologians at that time, he was first tutor at the Haugwitz Forestry Council . In 1818 Probsthan was appointed rector of the city school in the country town of Fürstenberg, which at that time belonged to Mecklenburg-Strelitz . In 1851, during the restoration phase, he was retired early with annual earnings of 700 thalers, after his election as local pastor had not been confirmed by the consistory due to his critical attitude towards the church, but he was no longer to be kept in school as a teacher.

In retirement he corresponded with Emil Peschel . He supported him in setting up the Körner Museum in Dresden and in writing the biography of Theodor Körner and his family . He wrote one of the three (the others are from Fritz Helfritz and Ferdinand Zenker ) von Peschel considered authentic reports on Körner's death. He concluded this report to Peschel with the words:

"All the reports that I have read about his death, especially those of the well-known gazebo, are false."

- Anton Probsthan

A cupboard in the museum kept the uniforms and weapons of former Lützow comrades, especially those of Anton Probsthan . The holdings of the Körner Museum, insofar as they survived the Second World War, have been transferred to the Dresden City Archives .

Since 1821 he was married to Sofie (Mathilde) Christine, geb. Groth (* 1797), the daughter of the second pastor in Strelitz Christian Friedrich Groth. In 1881 the couple celebrated the rare feast of the Diamond Wedding . On this occasion, the Körner Museum sent him a magnificent album with photographic replicas from the museum, dedicated to Scharnhorst's holy hosts and Theodor Körner's manes to their Anton Probsthan .

Genesis of the German tricolor

Genesis of the German tricolor

Even more than 100 years after his death, his handwritten and undated Genesis of the German Tricolore Schwarz-Roth-Gold is repeatedly mentioned and quoted by historians after Heinrich von Treitschke was first mentioned in 1885 in the third volume of his German history in the nineteenth century (as a lost property in Körner Museum) gave a lecture. In this text, which is two pages long, Probsthan, as a contemporary witness, attributes the flag of the original fraternity and thus the colors black-red-gold not to the Lützow hunters, but to the Vandalia Jena country team. The essence of this statement contradicts the fraternity's understanding of history . The lines must have been written after 1865, which is mentioned in the text, and before the mid-1870s.

memory

Probsthan (making a report on the right) in a historical representation of the evening before Körner's death on God's gift estate near Schwerin (engraving after Friedrich Wilhelm Heine around 1880)

A memorial stone in the former cemetery, today's park at the train station in Fürstenberg, reminds of Probsthan.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7808 .
  • Herbert Kater: The origin of the colors "black-red-gold". In: Einst und Jetzt, yearbook of the association for corps student historical research. 34: 107-116 (1989). (Contains his (auto) biography and his genesis of the emergence of the colors of the primitive fraternity as a tricolor from the colors of the Jenenser Vandals)

Web links

Commons : Anton Probsthan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Apparently incorrect information from the personal files of the Karbe-Wagner-Archiv Neustrelitz found its way into the literature in the last few decades and has since spread. The first name form Anton Probsthan is documented with sufficient certainty by the Mecklenburg-Strelitz state calendar and other sources.
  2. ↑ His grandfather Probsthan was a Protestant preacher in Derenburg near Halberstadt in the Harz Mountains.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Kaupp [edit.]: Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815–1819. (= Treatises on student and higher education ; Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005. ISBN 3-89498-156-3 . P. 24.
  2. ^ Georg Krüger : The pastors in the land of Stargard. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 69 (1904), pp. 1–270 ( full text ), p. 196
  3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 130 , 37
  4. ^ W. Emil Peschel, Eugen Wildenow: Theodor Körner and his own. Volume 1. Seemann, Leipzig 1898, p. 112
  5. ↑ The Körner Museum in Dresden: Körnerstrasse No. 4, in the 'Körnerhaus.' For explanation when visiting the same. Dresden 1878, p. 6
  6. ^ Georg Krüger : The pastors in the land of Stargard. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 69 (1904), pp. 1–270 ( full text ), p. 198, supplemented by the marriage register of the parish Strelitz.
  7. ^ W. Emil Peschel, Eugen Wildenow: Theodor Körner and his own. Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1898, p. 246f.
  8. ^ Heinrich von Treitschke: German history in the nineteenth century. , Vol. 3: Until the July Revolution. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885. ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive ), p. 756
personal data
SURNAME Probsthan, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Probsthan, Adam Johann Anton Friedrich (full name); Probsthan, Adam (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue, co-founder of the Urburschenschaft
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Strelitz
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1882
Place of death Fürstenberg / Havel