August Hollandt

August Christoph Theodor Hollandt (born October 4, 1800 in Braunschweig ; † April 18, 1882 there ) was a German lawyer and left-liberal politician. He was Braunschweig city councilor and member of the Braunschweig State Parliament , whose president he was from 1850-1851. During the revolution of 1848/49 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Hailing from a respected and influential family Braunschweiger August Hollandt studied from 1818 at the University of Goettingen jurisprudence and was 1,822 notary in Braunschweig. At the beginning of the 1830s he became a member of the Braunschweig city council. Since 1835 he was a member of the Braunschweig State Parliament. In March he belonged to the left wing of the liberal opposition. In 1845 Hollandt was the key figure who brought about a majority in parliament against the government's proposal for a new, aristocratic rural community order. A year earlier he had appealed to the rulers in the interests of the German national movement to stand up for the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein in the German Confederation . He was one of the first MPs to raise this issue.

Revolution 1848/1849 in Braunschweig : "Modern Industries", caricature by Hans von Veltheim . The Braunschweiger politicians are depicted as banter singers : Adolf Aronheim (left), August Hollandt (center) and Egmont Lucius (right).

In March 1848 he was invited to the pre-parliament together with Eduard Trieps . In the elections for the Frankfurt National Assembly, he stood for the left-wing liberals against the right-wing liberal Friedrich von Liebe. Contrary to general expectations, in April 1848 he was elected to the National Assembly by a large majority as a member of the first constituency of the Duchy of Braunschweig. In particular, he had the peasant population behind him because love had previously deplored the peasants' political immaturity.

In Frankfurt, Hollandt represented more moderate monarchical-constitutional positions as a member of the Landsberg parliamentary group . He was the rapporteur for the National Economic Committee. As such, he was very busy in parliament with the legislative process for future trade regulations. He submitted an extensive report to Parliament in February 1849. This consisted of the main draft, a counter-draft and a minority opinion. The report was not negotiated in plenary because there were more pressing problems. When the rump parliament was due to move on May 30, 1849 , Hollandt resigned his mandate in the national assembly.

In April 1848 he tried unsuccessfully to be elected for the position of city director in Braunschweig. In the state of Braunschweig he was a member of the Assembly of Deputies, parallel to the National Assembly, from 1848, of which he was Vice President from 1848 to 1849. As such, he was instrumental in ensuring that the revolution, at least in the city of Braunschweig, was peaceful. His statements about the creation of a people's army sparked resentment in conservative circles.

After the suppression of the revolution, Hollandt was one of the few members of the National Assembly who continued to defend the Paulskirche constitution in August 1849 .

From 1850 to 1851 he was President of the Assembly of Representatives, from 1852 Hollandt was a member of the State Assembly.

The political considerations that Hollandt drew as a conclusion from the revolution of 1848/49 found their way into the third edition of the Rotteck-Welcker State Lexicon .

His younger brother Hermann Hollandt (1810–1890) was a major, commander of the Braunschweig vigilante group and namesake of the park in Braunschweig called " Hollandtsgarten ".

literature

• Article Hollandt, August . In: Joachim Rückert and Jürgen Vortmann (eds.): Lower Saxony lawyers . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, pp. 155–156.
• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 185.
• Thomas Henne: August Christoph Theodor Hollandt (1800-1882). Lawyer and politician. In: Joachim Rückert and Jürgen Vortmann with the assistance of André Deppijng, Thomas Henne, Peter Oestmann u. a. (Ed.): Lower Saxony lawyers. A historical lexicon with an introduction to the history of the country and a bibliography. Göttingen 2003, p. 155.
• Christian Juranek : Against quite a while. Hans Graf von Veltheim. Life, literature and art. (= Dissertation University of Hildesheim). 2006. pp. 154f. Digitized, PDF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Brand: Investigations into the emergence of labor jurisdiction in Germany. 2002, ISBN 3-465-03185-7 , p. 295.
2. ↑ Alexa Geisthövel: Peculiarity and Power. German nationalism 1830–1851. The Schleswig-Holstein case. Stuttgart 2003, p. 122. Partial digitization
3. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte millennium review of a region. Braunschweig 2000, p. 782.
4. ^ Karl Heinrich Kaufhold: The craftsman question in the Frankfurt National Assembly. In: Ruth. E. Morhmann et al. a. (Ed.): Folklore in the field of tension between university and museum. Festschrift for Hinrich Siuts on his 65th birthday. Münster 1997. p. 178.