Cord Wischmann

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Cord Wischmann (* around 1800 in Ratzeburg ; † July 27, 1857 in Bremen ) was a German master carpenter and politician.

biography

Wischmann was initially a chair maker who was first mentioned in the address book in Bremen around 1824. In 1837 he received his license as a master carpenter from the guild .

He founded the Bremen Citizens' Association with 204 like-minded people on January 17, 1848 and was elected the association's first president. There was a strong influence of the Euphrosyne society on the civic association, in which numerous revolutionaries were represented. After the revolution of 1848/49 , many citizens joined the association. In addition to Wischmann, the teachers Christian Friedrich Feldmann and Heinrich Kotzenberg, the book printer Emil Meyer and other master carpenters were the leading representatives of the movement. On March 8, 1848, the eloquent Wischmann represented a resolution before the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen which called for new freedoms in Bremen. His flaming inaugural speech at the North German Crafts Congress on June 2, 1848, which was directed against the Prussian industrial policy and against the "enslavement of labor by capital" , attracted attention . But he also looked for a political balance between handicrafts and trade. In this revolutionary time he did not belong to the radical, but to the more liberal forces. He was elected to the new Bremen citizenship on March 29, 1849 and, alongside Feldmann, was elected vice-president of the citizenship.

This democratic citizenship was dissolved by the Senate in March 1852 without any legal basis. The Bremen Citizens' Association was also banned by the Senate after the end of the revolution in March 1852. This ended his political career and he continued to work as a master carpenter and was vice-president of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce from 1855 to 1857 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wischmann, Cord
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German master carpenter and politician, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH around 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1857
Place of death Bremen