Daniel Krebs

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Daniel Krebs (born August 31, 1827 in Mannheim ; † July 17, 1901 there ) was a German politician and revolutionary .

Life

Daniel Krebs, son of the brewer Peter Krebs, studied mathematics at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe and became a member of the Teutonia fraternity in 1844 . In April 1848 he took part in the ranks of the Herwegh Legion in the April riots in Baden . He was arrested and spent almost a year in custody in Bruchsal . In May / June 1849 he worked for the provisional government. He was used as civil commissioner for Weinheim , Schriesheim and the Odenwald district .

In 1850 Daniel Krebs fled to other European countries. He was wanted for high treason . The Baden State citizenship was stripped him and he was in absentia to three years in prison convicted.

Grab Krebs' in Mannheim

In 1860, Krebs was pardoned and returned to Germany. Two years later he founded a private educational institute for boys in Mannheim. Krebs was a member of the Democrats and was elected to the Baden state parliament in 1873/74 . In 1891 he ran again.

He was married to Maria Roes, who died in the same year as him. On the family grave in the main cemetery in Mannheim there is a high false urn with a spherical crown and a relief of a crab on the front. The urn stands on a cube-shaped base with a sub-base made of shell limestone.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Kirschner: Directory of Members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia , 1966.
  2. ^ W. Münkel: The cemeteries in Mannheim . SVA 1992, p. 209

swell

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 592-593.
  • Rainer Gutjahr: The republic is our luck: Weinheim in the revolution of 1848/49 . 1987, ISBN 3-923652-05-4
  • Thomas Hagen: Forward! is the call of the times: the revolution of 1848/49 in the Mannheim region . 1998, ISBN 3-926260-40-8
  • Heinrich Raab: Revolutionaries in Baden 1848/49 . 1998, ISBN 3-17-015373-0
personal data
SURNAME Cancer, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary, politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1901
Place of death Mannheim