Christian Friedrich Mentel

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Christian Friedrich Mentel , (born March 18, 1812 , according to other sources also on March 18, 1822 in Berlin ; † December 9, 1897 in Petersburg ) was a German tailor and member of the Union of the Just .

Life

CF Mentel was a son of the Berlin Fournierschneider Christian Friedrich Mentel and Helene Christiane Mentel geb. Schmidt. According to the relevant literature, he lived in Paris , London and Hamburg from 1840-1845 . On his wanderings as a craftsman, he became a member of the Union of the Just in Paris and a supporter of the socialist Wilhelm Weitling , who like him was a trained tailor. He was accepted into the federal government by German Mäurer . Before he returned to his homeland, he was still with the London Federal Parish. Here he met Karl Schapper , Joseph Moll , Heinrich Bauer , Hermann Kriege and others.

At the end of 1845, Mentel set up the local organization of the League of the Just in Berlin. He was arrested on December 9, 1846. While other prisoners were soon released, some of him remained in strict solitary confinement. In the same year he made a “confession” in Berlin and betrayed numerous members of the federal government. In the process, he revoked his statements. According to the files of the Berlin Criminal Court M 3., he was convicted on June 14, 1847, taking into account the detention on investigation, of criminal association with journeyman and knowingly disseminating prohibited literature. In 1849 there were renewed investigations against him. On the basis of his statements, Eduard Meyen was sentenced to two years imprisonment and Mentel had named a total of over one hundred and twenty federal members of the police. His national nickname was Fritz Potsdammer . He spoke both German and French.

In 1854, Wermuth and Stieber assumed that he was in "America" at that time . According to the census for the state of Virginia , Christian Friedrich Mentel lived with his wife Fredericke Mentel nee. Bredehorst and three children as a tailor in Petersburg (Virginia) . His grave was still in 1937 at Blandford Cemetery in the southeast of the city.

literature

  • Karl Bittel : The Communist Trial in Cologne 1852 in the mirror of the contemporary press . Rütten & Loening. Berlin 1955, pp. 96, 106, 316
  • The League of Communists. Documents and materials 1836-1849 . Vol. 1. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 1116, 118, 122, 188, 219, 238, 240, 258-273, 357, 358, 479-481, 1008, 1028, 1031-1033, 1054
  • The League of Communists. Documents and materials 1849-1851 . Vol. 2. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 655, 673, 680, 706, 707, 761

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N6FR-HTB
  2. ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/petersburg/cemeteries/blandford06.txt
  3. ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/petersburg/cemeteries/blandford06.txt
  4. ↑ a b wormwood u. Stieber: The Communist Conspiracies of the Nineteenth Century , Second Part, Berlin 1854, p. 85
  5. ↑ Ernst Schraepler. Crafts and workers' associations 1830–1853. de Gruyter. 1972. p. 300.
  6. ^ Statement by Friedrich Mentel about the League of the Just in Paris . In: The League of Communists. Documents and materials 1836-1849 . Vol. 1, Berlin 1970, pp. 116-123 here p. 117.
  7. ^ Statement by Friedrich Mentel about the League of the Just in London . In: The League of Communists. Documents and materials 1836-1849 . Vol. 1, Berlin 1970, pp. 238-240.
  8. ↑ The League of Communists. Documents and materials 1836-1849 . Vol. 1, Berlin 1970, p. 1031.
  9. ^ Karl Bittel: The Communist Trial in Cologne 1852 in the mirror of the contemporary press. Rütten & Loening. Berlin 1955. p. 96
  10. ↑ There are interrogation records from December 3, 1846, January 12, 13, 15 and 17, 1847. ( Der Bund der Kommunisten. Documents and materials 1836-1849 . Vol. 1, Berlin 1970, p. 1031. )
  11. ↑ The League of Communists. Documents and materials 1836-1849 . Vol. 1, Berlin 1970, p. 1031.
  12. ^ Karl Bittel: The Communist Trial in Cologne 1852 in the mirror of the contemporary press. Rütten & Loening. Berlin 1955. p. 106.
  13. ↑ https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCPB-RGW
  14. ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/petersburg/cemeteries/blndfd-indx-lz.txt

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personal data
SURNAME Mentel, Christian Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritz Potsdammer (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tailor, active in the Union of the Just
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1897
Place of death Petersburg (Virginia)