Daniel Friedrich Ludwig Pistor

Daniel Friedrich Ludwig Pistor

Daniel Friedrich Ludwig Pistor (born June 29, 1807 in Bergzabern , now Bad Bergzabern ; † August 7, 1886 ibid) was a German lawyer , fraternity and revolutionary .

Vita

Pistor came from a respected middle-class family from Bergzabern. His father was a member of the city council and in 1808/09 also "Maire" (mayor) of the city. After graduating from high school in 1826, Daniel Friedrich Ludwig Pistor studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . During his studies in 1829 he became a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft / Fäßlianer . In Munich in 1829 he also joined the Markomannia fraternity . After falling out with his fellow students at the Markomannia, he resigned and founded the new fraternity " Germania ". Pistor moved to Heidelberg in 1829 and participated in the establishment of another fraternity, "Frankonia" . In 1831 he received his doctorate in law in Munich.
Pistor died in 1886, his grave is in the cemetery in Bergzabern.

Freedom activities

In the course of the French July Revolution (1830), under King Ludwig I, repression against liberal and nationally minded citizens, especially students, arose in Bavaria. The press was subjected to censorship and unwelcome activists were expelled from the country. Pistor became a member of the German Press and Fatherland Association , whose leading figures were the journalists Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer and Georg August Wirth . He published radical democratic writings and rose to the position of secretary in the association. At the Hambach Festival , Pistor gave a highly revolutionary speech, which was then not written down for reasons of caution towards the authorities and was thus made inaccessible to the public. As he was about to be arrested, Pistor fled to France. However, a court sentenced him in absentia to one year in prison. He was also convicted of high treason in another trial for his revolutionary writings. From his exile in Paris, Pistor fought with other German emigrants against the rule of the Bavarian nobility, among other things in the union " League of Outlaws ". A pardon application by Pistors were rejected by the Bavarian king. In the revolution of 1848/49 , Pistor became involved as a member of the Democratic Left and appeared for them as a public speaker. After the failure of the revolution, he withdrew from politics.

Works

• Citizens' Catechism for Germany. Augsburg 1832.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 330–331.
• Günther Volz: On the history of the Pistor family from Bergzabern from the end of the 18th century until today . Neustadt / W., 2002 (Yearbook of the Hambach Society, special volume).

Web links - sources

• Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz : Demokratiegeschichte.eu