Eduard Forster

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Forsterscher new building from 1840

Eduard Forster (born October 11, 1811 in Gmünd ; † October 16, 1872 there ) was a German businessman and politician .

Forster headed the Forster and Wagner silver goods factory and the Dominikus Kott trading company , was an influential member of the municipal council and was briefly administrator in the office of the town council of Gmünd in 1848 .

In the revolutionary year of 1848 Forster was committed to the bourgeois revolution and fought for freedom of the press , citizen arming and the appointment of a German parliament. He stood up for the farmers and demanded their final exemption from the manorial taxes. Forster is considered a republican thought leader and felt himself to represent the whole people, not a specific class. The Gmünd merchant and gymnastics father Johannes Buhl fought at his side .

He founded a people's association in Gmünd in Württemberg and, together with the printer Ils, whom he had persuaded to come back to Gmünd, published the March mirror for free citizens of Berg and Thal in 1849 . As part of the reaction in the Kingdom of Württemberg , Forster was sentenced to two months imprisonment on the Asperg for his revolutionary activities . With this conviction, Forster's parliamentary activity was also ended, where he was a member of the Gmünder local council until his death in 1872. Eduard Forster was a member of the Württemberg estates from 1848 to 1851 and was a member of the three constituent state assemblies in 1848 and 1849.

Forster is the builder of the so-called Forster new building from 1840 (Robert-von-Ostertag-Straße 9) in Schwäbisch Gmünd and is mentioned in the poem famous Gmünder by Johann Straubenmüller . A street was named after him in the Schwäbisch Gmünd district of Straßdorf .

literature

  • Klaus Jürgen Herrmann : " Do you still know them ... the one from Schwäbisch Gmünd ." 1984, ISBN 978-90-288-2609-0 .
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 216 .
  • Gerd Noetzel: Authorities and citizens, political forces and problems of poverty in Gmünd, “factory location” and district town in the Kingdom of Württemberg. From the local press in Vormärz until after 1848. (= Publications of the Schwäbisch Gmünd City Archives . No. 13). Schwäbisch Gmünd 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-047462-0 online (not incorporated).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Herrmann, 1984.
  2. ↑ a b portrait (PDF; 21 kB) on gmuender-tagespost.de (as of September 19, 2013).
  3. ↑ Poem on wikisource.
personal data
SURNAME Forster, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1872
Place of death Gmuend