Carl Theodor Barth

Carl Theodor Barth (actually Johann Anton Carl ) (born October 2, 1805 in Lauterecken , † November 19, 1837 in Liechtenstein ) was a German lawyer and publicist .

Life

Carl Theodor Barth attended grammar school in Zweibrücken . In 1826 he enrolled at the University of Munich , but at the end of 1827 he moved to Heidelberg as a student lawyer and finally a year later to Erlangen , where he finished his studies. He settled as a legal candidate in Zweibrücken. In 1827, during his studies, he most likely joined the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft .

Together with the democratic lawyers Ferdinand Geib , Joseph Savoye and Friedrich Schüler and the printer Jakob Friedrich Rost , he was involved in founding the German Press and Fatherland Association in Zweibrücken, which was subsequently joined by numerous local groups throughout Germany. At the Hambach Festival in 1832 he took part as a speaker. In the following time he was co-editor of articles for Rost's "Zweibrücker Allgemeine Zeitung". Because of his Hambach speech and his publications, Carl Theodor Barth was charged on May 16, 1833 and sentenced to five months in prison for insulting and insulting officials. Immediately after the verdict was pronounced, Barth fled across the border to Sarreguemines in France , and from there a few weeks later into exile in Switzerland. Following a suggestion by Giuseppe Mazzini, he was one of the founders of the radical democratic secret society " Young Germany " and was a member of its first committee. As president he was in charge of the Bern section of "Young Germany".

He took part in Mazzini's Savoy campaign, which had the goal of liberating the Kingdom of Sardinia from the rule of King Charles Albert . After the campaign failed, on April 15, 1834, Barth was one of the five German signatories of the " Young Europe " fraternization act .

Because of his appeal "To the German soldiers" and as a co-signer of the also confiscated appeal "To the oppressed Germany" , he was expelled from Bern on June 18, 1834 and deported to England .

Barth went from England to France and was involved in the constitution of " Junge Deutschland " in Nancy in October of this year . Before being deported again, he fled to Switzerland and was involved in building up the craftsmen's associations of "Young Germany" in Bern until his untimely death.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 52-53.
• Wilhelm Kosch: Biographical State Handbook. Bern 1963
• Edgar Süss: The Palatinate in the "Black Book". Heidelberg publ. Z. Regional history and regional studies, Volume 3, Heidelberg 1956
• Albert Becker: Hambach and Pirmasens. Pirmasens 1928

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 52.