Christian Friedrich Kiefer

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Christian Friedrich Kiefer (born September 6, 1803 in Emmendingen , † April 12, 1878 in Philadelphia ) was a republican member of the 2nd Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly and the Baden Constituent Assembly of 1849 .

Life

Kiefer began his professional life as a teacher. At the age of 21, however, he went to the military and served in the Baden artillery for eight years . After he left, he went to his hometown Emmendingen, where he became a counselor and married in 1831. 1837 to 1844 worked as a supervisor in a chemical factory in Villingen . He then ran a textile printing shop and a brick factory in Emmendingen.

Kiefer was a member of the Baden Assembly of Estates (1848 for the constituency (A16) of the offices of Endingen and Kenzingen ) and was a republican in the Baden Chamber. From June 10, 1849 to June 28, 1849 (during the Baden Revolution ), Kiefer was a member of the Baden Constituent Assembly and one of the deputy chairmen, after Maximilian Werner was elected one of the three dictators on June 13. Kiefer chaired the 10th session of the constituent assembly on June 19, 1849. After Brentano's flight , he was elected dictator (member of the revolutionary government) in his place on June 29, 1849 - but he did not accept this election.

After the Prussians invaded Baden in 1849, Kiefer fled to Switzerland and then emigrated to the USA . He arrived in New York on November 6, 1849 with Hannah Brooker , his wife and Johann Michael Scheffelt .

He founded Kiefer's Hotel in Philadelphia and was a partner in a brewery. From 1853 to 1860 he lived on a farm near Reading and ran a wine shop on his return to Philadelphia. In 1852 he was one of the founding members of the German Free Congregation Philadelphia , which was based on the ideas of Wislicenus . Kiefer was also involved in social and charitable associations.

literature

  • Hans-Jörg Jenne: Christian Friedrich Kiefer - A Prominent German Revolutionary Patriot . In: s'Eige Show, yearbook of the district of Emmendingen for culture and history 13/1999, edited by Dr. Volker Watzka and Gerhard A. Auer, "The Sun of Freedom" - The Revolution of 1848/49 in the Emmendingen Oberamt and District Offices Kenzingen, Waldkirch - Volume 2: People, Ideas and Organizations, pp. 141–160
  • CF Kiefer , In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Pioneersverein von Philadelphia, Issue 16, 1910, pp. 38–39 online in the Internet Archive
  • CF Kiefer , obituary in: Der Deutsche Pionier, Volume 10, 1878, pp. 74–75 ( online on the homepage of the Research Center for German Emigrants in the USA at the University of Oldenburg )
  • Ulrich Peter Ecker : "No, I would rather live in a country where freedom is viewed as the greatest human happiness!" The correspondence of the Baden republican Johann Michael Scheffelt between 1849 and 1853. In: Schau ins Land, Volume 116, 1997 , P. 302 online at Freiburg University Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see list of members of the Baden Estates Assembly from 1847 to 1849
  2. ^ Entry on the homepage of the Research Center for German Emigrants in the USA at the University of Oldenburg
personal data
SURNAME Kiefer, Christian Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pine, Christ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Republican MP in Baden
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Emmendingen
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1878
Place of death Philadelphia