Damian Junghanns

Franz Joseph Damian Junghanns (born November 29, 1800 at Stocksberg Castle ; † December 3, 1875 in Baden-Baden ) was a lawyer , member of the Baden state parliament and participant in the Baden revolution of 1848/49 .

Life

Junghanns was the son of the Oberamtmann Franz Georg Junghanns , who was in the service of the Teutonic Order and later became Baden District Councilor in Wertheim. He studied law in Heidelberg and Göttingen from 1819 to 1823 . Here, through his membership in the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft and the Göttingen Burschenschaft (1821), he came into contact with liberal-democratic ideas. In 1825 he became a legal intern in Mosbach , and in 1831 he was promoted to court lawyer there.

In 1846 he belonged as a member of constituency 36 (Neckarbischofsheim and Mosbach) to the 12th session of the 2nd Baden Landtag Chamber . In the following session he was not represented, but in 1848 he took over the mandate of his brother Karl Johann Baptist Junghanns, who left the company prematurely, for constituency 32 (Wiesloch and Neckargemünd). In addition to legal questions in connection with the replacement of the rights of the nobility, he also campaigned for revolutionary daily political issues, including an amnesty against those involved in the Hecker uprising , against the prison sentence against Joseph Ignaz Peter and for the omission of the addition "von Gottes Ganden" in the title of the Grand Duke of Baden. In protest against the Chamber's inability to reform, he resigned his mandate in 1849. At the same time he belonged from May 29, 1848 to the end of the rump parliament in June 1849 of the Frankfurt National Assembly as a member of the electoral district Mosbach-Neckarbischofsheim-Sinsheim-Hoffenheim-Neckargemünd. There, too, he spoke out on current issues.

In May 1849 he took part in the Offenburg meeting of that year. As a substitute, he was a member of the provisional state committee. In June he was sent to the Constituent State Assembly of Baden , where he was a member of the commission for the distribution of former monastery and class property. In a “proclamation to the German people” he advocated a realistic assessment of the situation in which the establishment of democracy was not yet possible, and was the only representative in favor of approving the return of the Grand Duke of Baden. He proposed Lorenz Brentano as provisional regent . None of his proposals met with approval. After seven sessions of the Baden state assembly, he turned to Stuttgart and continued his mandate in the rump parliament.

After the end of the revolution, despite his moderate attitude, he fled to different places for fear of prosecution. a. first to Alsace, later to Belgium and in 1852 to Switzerland. In his absence, he was actually sentenced to nine years in prison in 1850 for high treason . In 1858 he made a declaration of repentance and was pardoned, so that he returned to Baden in 1859 and settled as a lawyer in Bühl , then from around 1865 in Rastatt . After his return from exile, Junghanns was no longer politically active; instead, he was still involved in various cultures and within the professions in Rastatt.

He was married to Amalie Rindenschwender and had three sons and two daughters with her.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bock 2000, p. 152

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 41-42.
• Michael Bock: The Baden state parliament members from the Wiesloch district 1819–1933 , in: Wiesloch - Contributions to History Vol. 1, Ubstadt-Weiher 2000, pp. 152–155.