Dagobert Böckel

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Dagobert Ernst Friedrich Böckel (born May 18, 1816 in Danzig ; † May 11, 1883 in Blasewitz ) was a German philologist, teacher, editor and left-wing liberal politician.

Life

Origin and early years

Böckel was the son of the pastor and later general superintendent Ernst Gottfried Adolf Böckel (1783–1854) and his wife Johanna Elisabeth born. Günther († 1860). The father's job, which changed frequently during those years, meant that he grew up in Gdansk , Greifswald , Hamburg and Bremen . He attended high schools in Hamburg and Bremen, where he took the final exam in the spring of 1836.

At the emphatic request of his father and against his own inclinations, he then studied theology , but concentrated on the philological subjects, since he did not want to be a pastor. He began his studies in Halle and went to the University of Göttingen in the fall of 1837 , which he - like many other students - left after one semester in protest against King Ernst August I's breach of the constitution . After a further four semesters at the universities of Leipzig and Greifswald , he received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1840 . Since he was initially aiming for a university career, he continued his studies at the Theological Seminary of the University of Berlin in order to qualify for Biblical Exegesis . In 1844, however, he gave up this intention and decided to become a teacher. After a probationary period at the Latin secondary school in Halle, he was employed temporarily in August 1844, and two years later as a permanent teacher at the Mariengymnasium in Jever .

Political activity

After the outbreak of the German Revolution of 1848 , Böckel took an active part in political life. From 1848 he and his colleague Wilhelm von Freeden published the left-liberal - democratic newspaper Freie Blätter for the free people , which appeared in Jever until 1851. From 1848 to 1858 Böckel was also a member of the Oldenburg Landtag , in which he quickly made a name for himself as a spokesman for the left opposition . His talent for rhetoric, his in-depth knowledge of the field and the precise logic of his argument made him one of the best debates in Parliament. However, he mostly took unpopular and controversial positions. In 1849, because of his political convictions, he rejected the alliance between Oldenburg and reactionary Prussia , advocated the liberal constitution and organized the protest against the changes in the electoral law, which were supposed to turn off the left forces. Since the end of 1848 the government tried unsuccessfully to hinder the uncomfortable opposition politician in his work by applying pressure and disciplinary measures under civil service law. After all, he was from 14 June 1851 to the disposition made and placed on half-pay. When the following year Böckel was offered the post of headmaster of a private higher education institution in Idar in the Birkenfeld exclave belonging to Oldenburg , the ministry refused to give the necessary approval for political reasons. In order to supplement the meager waiting allowance, Böckel subsequently gave private lessons and worked from 1853 to 1858 as a publisher for the Volkszeitung für Oldenburg .

Emigration to Switzerland

The lack of professional chances and the steadily deteriorating political prospects after the conservative turnaround of 1852 finally prompted Böckel to leave Oldenburg and Germany. In 1858 he accepted the position of teacher for Latin, Greek and Hebrew at the canton school in Frauenfeld in the Swiss canton of Thurgau and at the end of the year he moved there with his family. With the founding of the North German Confederation , he believed that political activity in Germany was possible again. From Switzerland he ran in the elections for the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation with a Greater German -democratic program that propagated the inclusion of the southern German states in the Confederation and stated the restoration of the basic rights of 1849 as his most important concern. However, he was defeated in these elections, but was then elected to the Reichstag in the summer of 1867 as a candidate for the Progress Party in the constituency of Oldenburg 2 ( Jever , Brake , Westerstede ) , to which he was a member from August 1867 to March 1871. In this capacity he was also a member of the Customs Parliament . In 1871 he had to forego a renewed candidacy for professional reasons - he had meanwhile become rector of the Frauenfeld grammar school.

Return to Germany

In 1873 he returned to Germany and took over the first senior teacher position at the Gymnasium in Küstrin , where he taught until his retirement in 1880. Böckel, who had already suffered a stroke in 1879 , then moved to Striesen and Blasewitz near Dresden , where he died three years later after a long illness.

family

On November 3, 1846, Böckel married Emma Habina Dinkgraeve († 1880), who came from Hage , and the marriage had two sons and a daughter.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 277.
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , short biography p. 382.
personal data
SURNAME Böckel, Dagobert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böckel, Dagobert Ernst Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, teacher, editor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1883
Place of death Blowjoke