Carl Theodor Dietzsch

Carl Theodor Dietzsch (born November 16, 1819 in Mühltroff , † August 11, 1857 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was a German lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from 1848.

Life

Dietzsch was born in 1819 as the son of a businessman and studied law at the University of Leipzig after attending grammar school in Plauen . There he became a member of the Kochei fraternity in 1841 . In 1845 he became a court actuary and notary at the Chemnitz Regional Court , from 1846 to 1849 he was a legal councilor in Annaberg , in 1848 editor of the Zeitbote from the Upper Ore Mountains and from 1848 to 1849 a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for the constituency of the Kingdom of Saxony (Schwarzenberg 14). There he belonged to the Donnersberg parliamentary group (extreme left). He was a member of the March Association and in 1849 a member of the Stuttgart Rump Parliament .

Because of his political activities he lost his job in Annaberg and charges were brought against him, which is why he fled to the USA in 1849. There he lived first in New Orleans , then in St. Louis and worked as a merchant and later as editor of the tribune . From 1850 he was an editor at the Louisviller Anzeiger . In 1855 he moved to Evansville and founded the Reform newspaper . In 1856 he worked as an editor at the Cincinnater Volksblatt and was an employee of the German Republican , whose editing he took over in 1857.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 203.