Carl Damm (politician, 1812)
Carl Damm (born January 5, 1812 in Baden-Baden , † September 16, 1886 in Karlsruhe ) was a Catholic priest , politician and participant in the revolution of 1848/49 .
Life
Damm studied Catholic theology and philology at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and was ordained a priest in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1837 . From 1839 he worked as a teacher in Offenburg , Bruchsal , Heidelberg and Tauberbischofsheim , where he worked as a grammar school director from 1844 to 1849 and became a professor in 1847.
From September 1, 1848 to June 18, 1849, he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly as a member of Tauberbischofsheim . From May 1849 he took part in the Baden uprising, was a member of the provisional state committee and the constituent state assembly that elected him president.
After the defeat, he fled via Switzerland to England in July 1849 , in 1853 he traveled on to Australia , where he married and became a teacher in Melbourne .
In absentia, he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and a fine for high treason . After his amnesty in 1863 he returned to Baden and became a teacher in Pforzheim , later a grammar school director in Karlsruhe.
literature
- Karl Schaible : Karl Damm , in: Badische Biographien (editor Friedrich von Weech), 4th part, Karlsruhe 1891, pp. 70–73 online in the Baden state library
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Damm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frankfurt National Assembly database online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sonja-Maria Bauer: The constitutional assembly in the Baden Revolution of 1849 , 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5164-5 , p. 80.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Damm, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic priest, politician and participant in the revolution of 1848/49 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden-Baden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1886 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |