August Blumröder

Johann August Friedrich Blumröder , from 1816 by Blumröder (born August 3, 1776 in Gehren , † June 13, 1860 in Sondershausen ) was a German officer , writer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

August Blumröder was the eldest son of the pastor of Großbreitenbach Christian August Blumröder (1739–1804) and of Sophie Christiane Langbein (1747–1799). He attended high school in Arnstadt ; there his maternal grandfather was a Conrector; and began to study theology in Jena at the request of his father.

Military career

He did not finish his studies, but in 1798 became a Bombardier with great admiration for Frederick the Great , with the prospect of promotion to the 1st Artillery Regiment ( Berlin ). He continued studying in Berlin, but now in mathematics . Between 1801 and 1803 he was a vice fireworker. He then taught mathematics for the officers of the cuirassier regiment in Kyritz . Between 1803 and 1806 he was a lieutenant in an artillery regiment in Magdeburg .

During the war in 1806 he took part in the defense of Magdeburg and the Hanoverian fortress of Hameln against the French troops, was captured and, like all officers, released on word of honor. In 1807 and 1809 Blumröder worked as a teacher and educator at the Schnepfenthal educational institution in Thuringia , because he did not receive an officer license in the now reduced Prussian army . 1808 as tutor at von Weise .

In 1809 he joined the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen contingent as captain and company commander , and later also battalion commander under the battalion chief Hereditary Prince Karl Günther . Between 1810 and 1814 he was a major in the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Rheinbund Regiment . On the French side he was deployed in various theaters of war (including the invasion of Vienna). He served in Tyrol, Spain, Germany and Russia. It is reported how von Blumröder, as a company commander in the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen contingent in 1812, could not prevent the loss of a war chest in a fight. According to the recording, the distribution of the booty even takes place with the participation of the Prussian troops by Murat and Ney . In 1812 he was involved in the defense of Danzig against Russian troops. In 1812/13 Blumröder was a Russian prisoner of war.

After the battle of Leipzig he was released in 1814 and, later as a lieutenant colonel , commander of the Schwarzburg line infantry battalion in the 3rd German Army Corps. He took part in the Wars of Liberation in 1814/1815 on the side of the Allies and took part in various sieges (of Bouillon, Mezieres and Monmedy).

Education as a prince, title of nobility and district administrator

Coat of arms awarded to the nobility in 1816

Blumröder resigned from active military service at the end of 1815 and became the tutor of Hereditary Prince Günther Friedrich Karl von Sondershausen . In gratitude, he was raised to the hereditary nobility in 1816 . Between 1832 and 1850 he was district administrator in the district of Sondershausen .

During the revolution of 1848 he was elected as district administrator in the Frankfurt National Assembly. He was a member of parliament from May 1848 to September 18, 1848. He represented the constituency of the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. In parliament he belonged to the Westendhall parliamentary group .

family

From his first marriage to Albertine Viktoria Friederike, née von Weise (1781–1832), the later Fürstlich Schwarzburg-Sondershausen government councilor Adolf August Friedrich Karl von Blumröder (1813–1881), the officer Günther Emil Adolf August von Blumröder (see below) and the Prussian Lieutenant General Adolf von Blumröder (1819-1894). His second marriage was to Sophie Christiane Caroline, née von Weise (1786-1851). Both were daughters of the Secret Council, Chancellor and Schwarzburgisch Sondershausen Chamber President Ludwig Wilhelm Adolf von Weise (1753-1820).

Create

He published; also under the pseudonym Theophilus Phosphorus ; a range of writings, including poetry, novels and scientific works. He also translated various philosophical works from French and wrote book reviews.

His correspondence with Friedrich Wilhelm III. , Reichsgraf von Wylich and Lottum and Christoph Martin Wieland are documented.

Günther Emil Adolf August von Blumröder

Günther Emil Adolf August von Blumröder (born December 30, 1816 in Sondershausen, † June 19, 1866 in Sondershausen) was a German officer .

He was a lieutenant colonel and, like his father August Blumröder, commander of the Schwarzburg-Sondershausen contingent. Günther von Blumröder committed suicide at the beginning of the German War in 1866 because, as a German, he did not want to fight Germans. It is particularly tragic that in 1837 his father published a comprehensive study on suicide and described the motives for suicide out of patriotic desperation as a blueprint for his son's suicide.

Fonts (selection)

• Poems. Erfurt 1815.
• Irene. Novel. 1816.
• The veiled messenger from home or the invisible lead tape. 2 volumes. 1821.
• The ghosts in state and church. 1823.
• God, nature and freedom in relation to the moral legislation of reason. Leipzig 1827.
• About the various forms in which pantheism has appeared in recent times. 1832.
• In contemporaries: a biographical magazine for d. History of our time , Volume 4, Brockhaus, 1833, on Johann Karl Wezel .
• In the year books of history and statecraft: Is every public power in the state, independent of the regent, in contradiction with the necessary unity of the highest power . Volume 1, 1836.
• Attempt to weigh up the various advantages and disadvantages of factory and machine systems . Leipzig, 1837.
• The suicide explained psychologically and morally appreciated. 2 parts. Weimar 1837.
• In the year books of history and politics: What is to be made of a legal theory and politics that has been scientifically or practically torn from morality? Volume 2, 1837.
• Religion according to its idea and historical development. Sondershausen 1839.
• The art of getting rich . 1843.
• Germany's past, present and Future. 1845.
• Literary skirmishers in the fields of philosophy, politics, religion, church and social life. 1847.
• Mephistopheles in court tails and blouse. Poem. 1847.
• Lost thoughts about the difference between rule and rule, strong and weak government . Two articles, Leipzig, 1847.
• The relation of the revolution to religion - sheets of warning and instruction. 1849.
• My experiences in war and peace, in the big world and in the small world of my mind . 1857.

literature

• Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 2. Altenburg 1857, p. 912. Digitized
• Rudolf Friedrich Ludloff : History of the Ludolf-Ludloff family , Roßteutscher, 1910, p. 105 + p. 106
• Journal of Thuringian History and Archeology , Volume 20, Jena, 1911, p. 421 ff.
• Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook : Genealogical Handbook of the Adels , Volume 32, CA Starke., 1964, p. 42 ff.
• Bibliography and index, Walter de Gruyter, 1999, p. 24

Web links

• Database of the members of the Prussian National Assembly, BIORAB-Frankfurt (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Strangers sheet . Elbemühl, 1860 ( google.de [accessed on March 18, 2018]).
2. ↑ Paul Holzhausen: The Germans in Russia 1812: Life and suffering on the Moscow military expedition . Morawe & Scheffelt, Berlin 1912, ISBN 978-3-95580-903-4 , p. 178 ( google.de [accessed December 27, 2017]).
3. ^ History of the 5th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 94 (Grand Duke of Saxony) . H [ermann] Böhlau, 1869, p. 244 ( google.de [accessed December 26, 2017]).
4. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , p. 47, no. 2738.
5. ↑ Norbert Henrichs, Horst Weeland: Correspondence of German-speaking Philosophers 1750-1850: Volume 1: Register, Author / Addressees, Addressees / Author - Volume 2: Evidence, Letters, Collections of Letters . Walter de Gruyter, 1987, ISBN 978-3-11-097194-1 ( google.de [accessed December 26, 2017]).
6. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiter-Zeitung . Association, 1866, p. 1062 ( google.de [accessed on March 18, 2018]).