Carl Gotthelf Todt
Carl Gotthelf Todt , also Carl Gottlob Todt , (born October 20, 1803 in Auerbach / Vogtl. , † March 10, 1852 in Riesbach near Zurich ) was a German lawyer and politician .
Life
The son of a muslin weaver who also leased a pub, received his first education at the community school and at two private schools in his hometown of Auerbach. Actually he should have learned the carpentry trade, but in 1817 he was accepted as a clerk by the lawyer Wehner. In 1820 he entered the grammar school there in Plauen. He earned part of his living by teaching. At Easter 1824 he began to study law at the University of Leipzig , but in 1826 he was expelled from the alma mater for two years on suspicion of participating in prohibited connections ; in 1825 he had become a member of the old Leipzig fraternity . He used the time of the reprimand to study diligently at home, so that in February 1829 he was able to take a very good exam. Since the winter of 1828/29 he belonged to the Freemasons . A first job at the Leipziger Landstube followed in 1830 as a town clerk in Treuen . Favored by the prudence and determination shown in this office in the revolutionary year 1830 and the distress that spread in the Vogtland in 1831, he was appointed city judge of Treuen in 1831. In the following year he was elected mayor of the city of Adorf , which office he took on October 31, 1832. On site he founded a city school and was also elected city judge in 1833, which office he held until the city's jurisdiction was extinguished in 1839.
In 1835 he founded the liberal Adorfer Wochenblatt , which quickly spread in the Vogtland. With this and the influenced by him leaf Ant he contributed to the detection and termination of abuse in administrative procedures and came in contact with the Leipzig Robert Blum . As a representative of the 18th urban constituency, he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament from 1836 to 1847 and quickly developed into the only opposition man in the Saxon Chamber of Deputies in 1836/37 alongside Julius von Dieskau . This was expressed in particular in his liberal reorganization of a submitted draft press law in 1839 and in a request for an address to be issued to the Saxon king containing the chamber's complaints. Arthur Frey describes him as follows: “ Todt is an amiable companion, gifted with a great deal of wit. He is of medium height, somewhat coarsely built, with engaging features and gifted with a speech that, coming from the heart, knows how to find hearts. “ Bernhard Hirschel describes him in 1846 as the“ leader of the liberal party ”, who managed to rally a large and powerful party. He continues: “ Todt is more rightly called a father of the fatherland than some princes and ministers. He is a man of the people through and through. The expression of his speech is just as plain and simple as his external appearance . "
With the beginning of the 1848 revolution he was sent to the Frankfurt pre-parliament . From the government under Karl Braun who took office on March 16, 1848 , he was sent to the Committee of Seventeen as a Saxon delegate with an appointment to the secret government council and was then also active as an envoy to the Bundestag. He was a member of the Landtag in 1849 as a representative of the 73rd, 74th and 75th electoral districts in the I. Chamber. After he was called back by the cabinet under Gustav Friedrich Held of the Bundestag, he was given the position of director in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior .
During the Dresden May Uprising , Todt belonged to the revolutionary Provisional Government from May 4 to 9, 1849, alongside Samuel Erdmann Tzschirner and Otto Leonhard Heubner . After the suppression of the uprising, he secretly left Dresden and fled to Switzerland, where he dealt literarily with Swiss criminal law and community affairs. He died in Riesbach near Zurich in March 1852.
Honors
In his hometown of Adorf, the Bürgermeister-Todt-Straße and a bust commemorate him.
literature
- Arthur Frey: Characters of the present - portrayed from authentic sources. Mannheim 1848, p. 243ff ( digitized version )
- Eduard Ludwig Wedekind: The fight in Dresden from May 3rd to 9th, 1849 . Crossen, Range 1851. Digitized
- Karl Wippermann : Todt, Karl Gotthelf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 408-410.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 46-47.
- General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes. 9th edition, Volume 14, Verlag FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1847, pp. 321–322 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Matzerath: Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952. Dresden 2001, p. 131.
- ↑ Arthur Frey: Characters of the Present - portrayed from authentic sources. Mannheim 1848, p. 255 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Bernhard Hirschel : Saxony's government, estates and people , Mannheim 1846, pp. 37–42 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Josef Matzerath: Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952. Dresden 2001, p. 52.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Todt, Carl Gotthelf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Todt, Carl Gottlob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony), member of the Committee of Seventeen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auerbach / Vogtl. |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1852 |
| Place of death | Riesbach near Zurich |