August Ruoff

August Ferdinand Ruoff (born December 8, 1809 in Neuenstadt am Kocher , † after 1854) was a German printer , publisher and politician who worked in Heilbronn . Before and during the German Revolution of 1848/49 he was involved in politics on the side of the Democrats. In 1849/50 he was a member of three extraordinary Württemberg state parliaments , which were supposed to revise the Württemberg constitution of 1819 or replace it with a new constitution.

Life

Ruoff was born the son of a master chimney sweep in Neuenstadt am Kocher; from 1841 he can be traced in Heilbronn. In 1843 he married the widow Rosine Catharina Hornung. In his book printing plant with an affiliated publishing house, which was established in Heilbronn in 1841, he a. Children's books and from 1846 printed a weekly agricultural newspaper for the districts of Weinsberg , Heilbronn and Neckarsulm , for which he also took over the editing from 1847.

His political commitment on the part of the Democrats went hand in hand with the founding of the left - wing democratic Heilbronner Zeitung Neckar-Dampfschiff , which was published by Ruoffs Verlag from 1842 and which he published until 1848. In February of this year he sold his printing company with the newspaper to Heinrich Güldig from Stuttgart and took on a leading role with the Heilbronn Democrats, where he was the spokesman for the more radical faction, while the innkeeper Louis Hentges spoke for the moderates. He caused a sensation with a series of articles called Die Musterung von Heilbronn in May 1848 , which appeared on the Neckar steamboat from May 26 , 1848 , in which he a. a. attacked the politically less radical Heilbronn city doctor Robert Mayer and ridiculed him as a reactionary “cancer knight”.

During the revolutionary period, Ruoff was very present in Heilbronn's political events; in the summer of 1848 he was elected to the board of the local Democratic Society. Together with the pharmacist Friedrich Mayer, the politically more radical brother of Robert Mayer, Ruoff led the Eastern Corps of the Heilbronn vigilante group and in June 1849 participated as one of around 20 men in this Eastern Corps in the battles of the Baden Revolution . After he was wanted for high treason or treason for this reason , he fled to Switzerland on June 11, 1849 , where he was granted political asylum in the canton of Zurich .

In the three elections in 1849 and 1850 he was elected to the extraordinary state assemblies for the Oberamt Heilbronn (whose constituency also included the city of Heilbronn). He could not join the constitution-revising state assembly in 1849, however, because he was initially still in Switzerland and then, after he had surrendered voluntarily, was imprisoned until February 2, 1850.

Ruoff can be traced in the Heilbronn address books until 1851 . In 1854 he moved to Stuttgart ; According to an entry in the Stuttgart address book in 1854, he worked as an economist in Balingen and Besigheim . With a waiver certificate dated July 12, 1855, he gave up his Heilbronn citizenship .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Place of birth according to Fuchs, s. literature

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 750 .
• Werner Föll: Ruoff, August Ferdinand. In: Revolution in the Southwest . Edited by the working group of full-time archivists in the Baden-Württemberg Association of Cities. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1997, ISBN 3-88190-219-8 , p. 259
• Friedrich Dürr : Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume I: 741-1895. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, p. 374–400 ( Publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 27. - Unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition from 1926).
• Christhard Schrenk , Hubert Weckbach , Susanne Schlösser: From Helibrunna to Heilbronn. A city history (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 36 ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8062-1333-X , p. 134 f .
• Ute Fuchs: The “Neckar Steamship” in Heilbronn. An investigation into the history of communication. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1985, DNB 861205537 , pp. 39–41 ( Small series of publications by the Heilbronn City Archives. 16)
• Götz Krusemarck: News from Robert Mayer's circle of life . Salzer, Heilbronn 1942, DNB 580473279 , pp. 35–42 ( publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn a. N. H. 2)