Carl Wiethaus

Carl Theodor Gerhard Wiethaus (born February 19, 1809 in Hamm ; † January 18, 1865 in Hohenlimburg ) was a German lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

His father was David Wiethaus , district administrator of the Hamm district . Carl Wiethaus was the brother of the politician Julius Wiethaus . Between 1827 and 1830 he studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin . There he joined the Alte Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . From 1830 he was commissioner of justice, d. H. Lawyer at the lower court in Hamm. He got married in 1838. Between 1839 and 1848 Wiethaus served as a district and city judge.

Even before the revolution of 1848 he was a member of a political committee which, among other things, advocated an early convocation of the United Diet. During the March Revolution he was the leader of the vigilante group in Hohenlimburg. He became a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for the Iserlohn constituency . Wiethaus did not belong to any parliamentary group. However, he was close to the left center of the Württemberger Hof . He resigned from parliament on October 30, 1848. In view of the economic hardship in his region of origin, he pleaded in parliament for the extension of the customs union to all of Germany. Because of his more leftist attitude, he received a protest letter from Ergste , signed by 200 citizens, in early October 1848 , in which he was described as a part of Robert Blum and asked to resign. Wiethaus rejected the allegations and stated that he wanted to resign anyway. His successor was Carl Overweg . The distrust of Wiethaus came from a minority, the majority of the voters supported him. On his return he was received with a parade and a torchlight procession.

After the Iserlohn uprising was crushed in 1849, Wiethaus was arrested and charged with membership in the Hohenlimburg Security Committee. Allegedly, he and other defendants should have brought cannons from Limburg Castle to Iserlohn. In 1859 he was acquitted by the jury court in Wesel after a court in Iserlohn had already suspended the arrest warrant against him due to lack of evidence.

After the revolution, he was district judge until 1863 and district court director in Hohenlimburg from 1863 to 1865.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 310-311.
• Manfred Luda: At the birth of parliamentarism. MP from the County of Mark in Stormy Times (1848-1849). Digitized version (PDF; 1.4 MB)

Web links

• Database of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)