Christian Düberg

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Johann Christian Peter Düberg (born February 16, 1806 in Wismar ; † January 12, 1873 ibid) was a German lawyer, publicist and leader of the civil unrest in Wismar following the French July Revolution of 1830 and the March Revolution of 1848.

life and work

Christian Düberg was the son of the needle maker Johann Carl Düberg (* 1769) and grandson of a needle maker who immigrated from Stockholm . His older brother was the painter Carl Düberg .

Düberg studied law at the Universities of Halle and Rostock . At Easter 1827 he was accepted into the register of the Mecklenburg lawyers and notaries and since then has practiced in Wismar, where he initially lived in his parents' house.

Embittered by his experiences in court against individual magistrates and judges and against the entire Wismar judiciary, which he accused of arbitrariness, he became the initiator of a movement against the magistrate to reform the constitution. On November 9, 1830 a missive (protest pamphlet ) written by him was published, which was signed by 1200 people. The success of the missive encouraged further steps: at Düberg's instigation, almost all trades - with the exception of the merchant and shopkeeper companies - appointed deputies for joint deliberations on city affairs, particularly on a constitutional amendment. A revolutionary body was constituted under the name of the Assembly of Deputies of the Honorable Citizenship and appointed Düberg to be its consultant.

The council, realizing that a certain relenting was inevitable, issued a proclamation on November 17th and set up a joint commission. Nevertheless, there was a commotion; the mayor Lembke had to leave the city, and Düberg was briefly the politically most influential man in Wismar. At the head of a delegation, he traveled to Schwerin to see Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg to present the demands of the assembly of deputies, but was not received by the latter. He returned to Wismar, where the Grand Duke had meanwhile sent Chamber Councilor Leopold von Plessen , who forbade the meeting of deputies. At the beginning of December the military moved into Wismar; Düberg was initially placed under house arrest and taken to Schwerin on December 13th. In the night of April 2nd to 3rd, 1831 he managed to escape from the lead cellar of Schwerin Castle . When he returned to Wismar, he and his brother were arrested again at the water gate . He was able to flee again; now wanted by a specially appointed commission of inquiry under the direction of Carl Friedrich von Both , he went into exile in Strasbourg . However, he returned after some time and began his imprisonment in Dömitz , part of which he was still released because he tried to prevent excesses.

Also in 1848 he tried to lead a revolutionary movement in Wismar. However, he was arrested on April 1, brought to Schwerin and released on April 13, after promising not to enter Wismar for four weeks and not to hold a popular assembly. Then Düberg returned to Wismar, continued to practice as an attorney and notary and was involved in civic affairs such as the school issue. Until the end of his life he published on the Mecklenburg constitutional question.

Düberg was considered a Communist by his contemporaries   and was a Swedenborgian . He campaigned several times for the teaching of Swedenborg and its New Church and wrote the first biography of Johann Friedrich Immanuel Tafel , the founder of the Swedenborg movement in Germany.

In February 1843 he and his family left the Evangelical Lutheran regional church and founded a free congregation with like-minded people under the name Reformed congregation . In 1844 the small community gave itself order; In 1845 it was called the New German Congregation and joined the German Catholic movement . At that time it comprised 50 people. Since 1846 the congregation has celebrated its services in the summer in the rifle house in front of the city and in winter in the Dübergs house, which was a quarter of an hour from the city. In 1846 Johannes Ronge visited the congregation, celebrated the Lord's Supper and made a confirmation . A year later there was a quarrel in the congregation between more rationalist congregation members and Düberg's Swedenborgian views; Düberg wanted to break away from German Catholicism and in September 1847, at a meeting in Nordhausen with Eduard Baltzer and like-minded people, he became one of the founders of the Association of Free Communities ; a little later the community faced dissolution.

Fonts

  • Meklenburgs Landesnoth: Remarks on the class system and municipal code: together with an appendix on the legal status in Mecklenburg. Braunschweig: Vieweg 1831
  • Poems. Wismar 1841
Dept. 1: Psyche
Dept. 2: Song dreams and rubble
  • The Church of Christ: Prophecy and Interpretation. Liestal: Honegger 1844
  • From and about Swedenborg. Wismar: Oesten 1849 ( digitized version )
  • On the seizure issue in Mecklenburg, especially in the Wismar area: two judgments, a municipal ordinance and a legal opinion; Noteworthy for landowners. Wismar: Hinstorff, 1862
  • Life and work of Dr. Joh. Fr. Immanuel Tafel, professor of philosophy and university librarian in Tübingen. Wismar 1864; 2., verb. Basel 1868 edition
  • Plattdütsche discourses on theology and de Presters, ok from state unannernly taught saks: for sien Landslüd. Leipzig: Häfele 1865
  • Our school of scholars: motivated proposal in the citizens' committee in Wismar with regard to the situation of the fatherland. Wismar: Beck 1866
  • On the Mecklenburg constitutional question. Wismar: Hinstorff 1873

literature

  • Karl Friedrich Deiters : In memory of Johann Christian Peter Düberg: Advocat and Notary zu Wismar; Born February 16, 1806; died January 12, 1873. Wismar 1873
  • Gustav Willgeroth : Pictures from Wismar's past. Collected contributions to the history of the city of Wismar. Willgeroth & Menzel, Wismar 1903 ( digitized version), p. 316ff.
  • Hans Witte : Wismar under the pledge agreement, 1803-1903. Festschrift for the centenary of the reunification of Wismar with Mecklenburg. Hinstorffs̕che Hofbuchhandlung, Wismar 1903 ( digitized )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Christian Düberg's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ A detailed profile appeared on April 11th in the Staats und Gelehre Zeitung des Hamburgischen impartial correspondents
  3. ^ Carl Christian Ullmann : Communications and messages for the evangelical clergy in Russia. 6 (1845), Heft 1, p. 198. His sentence (from Das Gemeinwesen aus Christus , 1844): The Christian state stretches across the road as a particular cheek . The Christian of the struggle for redemption has to shovel it away.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Ferdinand Kampe: History of the Religious Movement of Modern Times , Volume 2, Leipzig: Wigand 1853 ( digitized ), p. 60ff
  5. ↑ Ibid. P. 61
personal data
SURNAME Düberg, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Düberg, Johann Christian Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1873
Place of death Wismar