Carl Heinrich Ebmeier

Carl Heinrich Ebmeier

Carl Heinrich Ebmeier (born December 22, 1793 in Schluesselburg ; † May 7, 1850 in Paderborn ) was a lawyer and member of the German National Assembly .

Live and act

Ebmeier was the son of a domain tenant. After leaving school, he began studying law in Halle (Saale) , where he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia . He took part in the Wars of Liberation as a cavalryman and was seriously wounded. He then continued his studies in Göttingen . There he got to know Jodocus Temme . Ebmeier was later a judge in Preußisch Oldendorf , Minden and Rahden before he rose to become Vice President of the Paderborn Higher Regional Court .

During the rural unrest in the Paderborn region at the beginning of the German Revolution of 1848 , Ebmeier and the court president Lange signed an appeal against the "rioting and acts of violence". Ebmeier was elected to the German National Assembly for the constituency of Lübbecke - Herford . There he joined the right center ( casino ). During his time in Frankfurt he wrote numerous reports on the events that were printed in the various Westphalian newspapers. After the Prussian government declared the mandates of the representatives from Prussia to have expired in May 1849, Ebmeier was still a member of the rump parliament in Frankfurt, but did not take part in the move to Stuttgart on May 30, 1849.

literature

• JDH Temme: eyewitness reports of the German revolution 1848/49. A Prussian judge as a champion of democracy . Darmstadt, 1996. ISBN 3-534-12756-0 . Pp. 63-65.
• Wilfried Reininghaus / Horst Conrad (ed.): For freedom and law. Westphalia-Lippe in the revolution of 1848/49 . Münster: Aschendorff, 1999. ISBN 3-402-05382-9 . Pp. 63, 147, 203.
• Egbert Weiß: Corps students in the Paulskirche , in: Einst und Jetzt , special issue 1990, Munich 1990, p. 19.