Carl Lehmann (politician)

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Carl Lehmann

Carl Lehmann (born November 30, 1786 in Frankenthal ; † May 4, 1870 there ) was a Palatinate tax clerk . From 1835 to 1868, with the exception of a two-year impeachment, he was mayor of the city of Frankenthal and a member of the Palatinate district council .

Life

Lehmann was the son of the schoolmaster Johann Georg Lehmann (1744-1817) and his second wife Elisabeth Margarete Happel (1767-1814). His half-brother was the Dürkheim pastor Wilhelm Lehmann, the father of the historian Johann Georg Lehmann .

Lehmann worked as a rent master in his hometown in the 1820s . In 1832 he succeeded Johann Anton Salmon as the royal Bavarian mortgage keeper , the most senior civil servant in the Frankenthal judicial district . In the following year he took part as a jury member in the assize trial in Landau against Wirth , Siebenpfeiffer , Pistor and others. Three years later Lehmann was elected mayor for the first time. The Frankenthaler Sparkasse was founded in the first year of his term of office . Lehmann, who grew up in the cramped conditions of the Protestant boys ' school, was particularly committed to improving the school situation. In 1838 the four school houses in the city were sold and a community school was opened in Kirchenstrasse. Lehmann belonged to the Palatinate Landrath in the 1840s.

In the revolutionary years of 1848 and 1849 , Lehmann was loyal to the king. His son-in-law Julius Bettinger founded the Frankenthaler Volksverein in 1848 and was elected captain of the vigilante group. Lehmann's deputy, the first adjunct Carl Alexander Spatz , moved into the Frankfurt National Assembly and represented the cantons of Frankenthal , Grünstadt and Mutterstadt . On May 5, 1849, the city's democratic association called for the people to be armed. The city council approved the formation of a cantonal committee to defend the imperial constitution and a people's armed forces . Bell founder Georg Hamm became the commander . Lehmann failed in his attempt to set up a civil defense.

At the height of the reaction time in Bavaria, Lehmann was relieved of his mayor's office in 1853 by the "highest" order and replaced by the notary Johann Georg Neumayer (1784-1858). Lehmann was accused of "lack of child rearing" because of the revolutionary involvement of his children Emma and Friedrich. His youngest daughter Emma was fiancé of the legal candidate Daniel Hertle, who had taken over the office of the revolutionary district administrator in Homburg in May 1849 as "civil commissioner" . Hertle was charged with high treason and sentenced to death in absentia . The only son Friedrich Lehmann took part in the Palatinate uprising as a member of a student legion "out of moral obligation" and rejected the humiliating procedure of an amnesty .

After two and a half years, Lehmann replaced Neumayer as mayor in 1856. Until 1868, when he was 82 years old, he directed the fortunes of the city. On July 5, 1866, it was announced that the mortgage keeper and royal councilor Lehmann "in recognition of his long-term, loyal and profitable services in the requested final retirement". Under Lehmann's chairmanship, the Frankenthal city council decided in February 1862 to found a gas factory . The private stock corporation Frankenthaler Gas-Anstalt , in which the city held half of the shares, was converted into Stadtwerke after twenty years .

family

Lehmann married Barbara Schuck (1789–1866), who came from a red tanner family. The couple had four daughters and one son: Anna Barbara, married to the notary Johann Salmon, Cornelia (1812–1886), married to the Speyer government and consortium director Wilhelm (von) Bettinger , Clementine (1815–1891), married to the Doctor and director of the Frankenthal District Hospital and Nursing Home Julius Bettinger. After the death sentence of her fiancé Daniel Hertle had become final in 1856, Emma (1827-1867) married the doctor Wilhelm Zöller (1826-1901) that year, who in 1887 succeeded Julius Bettinger. The son Friedrich Lehmann (1825–1905) studied medicine in Montpellier with his friend Peter Fries . He became an assistant at the University Clinic in Zurich and married Friederike Spatz (1835–1911), half-sister of Carl Alexander Spatz and niece Fries'. The educator of her three sons Karl Bernhard , Wilhelm Ludwig and Julius Friedrich Lehmann was the revolutionary Friedrich Beust .

The five first-born grandchildren of Lehmann were given the first names Carl and Karl. Granddaughters were married to Carl Johann von Krazeisen , Julius Lange and Max von Seydel . The Swiss zoologist Fritz Erich Lehmann was a grandson, the racing cyclist and inventor Julius Bettinger was a great-grandson.

See also

literature

  • Rudolf H. Böttcher: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849. A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution. Special issue of the Association for Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies. Volume 14. Issue 6. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1999. P. 304.
  • Rudolf H. Böttcher: Frankenthaler living culture in transition. Episode 2. In: The Rheinpfalz , Frankenthaler Zeitung. 63rd year (2007) No. 165 of July 19, 2007.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Pedigree by Karl Bernhard Lehmann, p. 2. Supplement to: Karl Bernhard Lehmann: Frohe Lebensarbeit. Memories and confessions of a hygienist and naturalist. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1933.
  2. ↑ a b c Rudolf H. Böttcher: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849. A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution. P. 304.
  3. ↑ Ludwig Hoffmann: Complete negotiations before the royal Bavarian appellate court against Dr. Wirth, Dr. Siebenpfeifer, Hochdörfer, etc. Ritter , Zweibrücken 1833. p. 81.
  4. ^ Rudolf H. Böttcher: Liberals and Democrats in Frankenthal. In: Die Familienbande ... p. 281 ff.
  5. ↑ Father of the geophysicist Georg von Neumayer .
  6. ↑ Anklag file # 115. Nephew of the revolutionary Daniel Pistor .
  7. ^ Rudolf H. Böttcher: Daniel Hertle - "A terrorist agent of violence". In: Die Familienbande ... p. 293.
  8. ^ Rudolf H. Böttcher: Students with Powder and Lead - "The Student Legion of the Rheinpfalz" . In: Die Familienbande ... pp. 302–304, 257.
  9. ^ Neue Würzburger Zeitung: Official news. No. 185, 63rd year. July 7, 1866. p. 1.
  10. ↑ 150 years of Stadtwerke Frankenthal. ( Online ) Frankenthal 2012. p. 13.
  11. ^ Rudolf H. Böttcher: Dr. Julius Bettinger - The "Brechvadder" commands the vigilante group. In: Die Familienbande ... p. 271.
  12. ↑ The judgments were pronounced in 1851. According to the Code pénal of 1812 in force in the Palatinate at that time , a death sentence could be judicially reviewed within five years and, if necessary, overturned; after five years the death sentence became final and had to be carried out by guillotine the following day if the convict was apprehended . Daniel Hertle, who emigrated to America, was given an amnesty in 1865.
  13. ^ Zöller was the brother of the Higher Regional Court President Ludwig von Zöller (1831–1897).
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian civil servant, mayor and member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1870
Place of death Frankenthal