Eduard Eppelsheimer

Joseph Ignaz Eduard Eppelsheimer , also Eduard Eppelsheim (born May 6, 1808 in Herxheim am Berg , † November 30, 1866 in Dürkheim ) was a German politician and revolutionary.

Life

Born the son of a rentier , Eppelsheimer studied law in Erlangen , Heidelberg and Munich after attending grammar school in Zweibrücken . During his studies he became a member of the Arminia Erlangen fraternity in 1825 , of the old Heidelberg fraternity in 1826 and of the Marcomannia Munich fraternity in 1827 . After completing his studies, he became a supplementary judge at the Dürkheim Peace Court until 1844 . In 1845 he resigned as a judge to become a notary . However, he was not admitted and lived as a landowner in Dürkheim. From 1845 to 1848 he was a member of the Bavarian state parliament and in 1848 was a member of the Frankfurt pre-parliament . In the election to the Frankfurt National Assembly , he was set up as the second substitute candidate for the 8th Palatinate constituency of Neustadt an der Haardt .

As a radical member of the cantonal defense committee and because of active support of the provisional government, Eppelsheim was considered a highly treasonous participant in the Palatinate uprising in 1849 and was included in the indictment files under number 93 . He was sentenced to two months in prison in 1851.

His son Friedrich (1834–1899) was chief magistrate , 2nd board member of Pollichia and butterfly researcher .

literature

• Eduard Eppelsheimer in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Rudolf H. Böttcher: The replacement candidates: lawyers, civil servants, doctors, pastors and a pedagogue. In: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849. A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution. Special issue of the Association for Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies. Volume 14. Issue 6. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1999.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 258-259.