August Thieme (politician)

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Andreas Friedrich August Thieme (born December 15, 1821 in Leipzig , † December 15, 1879 in Cleveland ) was a German, later American journalist and politician .

Life

August Thieme was born the son of a master carpenter and studied medicine , law , evangelical theology and philology at the University of Leipzig . In 1841 he became a member of the short-lived Corps and 1842 again as a fraternity opened Markomannia Leipzig . In 1847 he was a candidate for theology. In 1848 he went to Hirschberg (Saale) as editor of the Hirschberger Wochenblatt .

As one of the leading figures of the March Revolution in East Thuringia, he was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly as a member of the Reuss Younger Line constituency in Hirschberg , to which he belonged from May 29, 1848, initially as a member of the German Court and later of the Donnersberg . On July 9, 1848, he gave up his mandate in favor of his friend Johann Georg August Wirth . In November 1848, criminal proceedings were opened against him before the Lobenstein district court for inciting disobedience to the government .

After participating in the Baden-Palatinate uprising as part of the imperial constitution campaign , he emigrated to the United States in 1849 , where he worked as a teacher and journalist in Buffalo and later in Cleveland . From 1852 he was the editor of the German-language newspaper Der Wächter am Erie, which appeared in Cleveland . He joined the gymnastics movement in the USA and the Republican Party of Ohio , as a delegate of which he attended the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1860 .

See also

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 27.

Web links

  • FNV-Online (call up biography via search function)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 150 , 3
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Thieme, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thieme, Andreas Friedrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1879
Place of death Cleveland