Eduard Kullmann

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Eduard Kullmann (1874), photo: Wilhelm Cronenberg
Eduard Kullmann (right) shoots Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
Sheet music, March by Aloys Hennes , in memory of the failed assassination attempt

Eduard Franz Ludwig Kullmann (born July 14, 1853 in Magdeburg - Neustadt , † March 16, 1892 in Amberg ) was a German craftsman and was known as the Bismarck assassin in 1874.

Life

Eduard Kullmann was the son of an outpatient fishmonger who had moved from Catholic Eichsfeld to Magdeburg- Alte Neustadt . The 20-year-old Böttcher journeyman Kullmann, a member of the Catholic journeyman's association in Salzwedel , committed an attack on the then Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in Kissingen in the midst of a cheering crowd on July 13, 1874 . Bismarck suffered only a light gunshot wound in the hand. The opera singer José Lederer , who was standing nearby, seized the assassin.

The motive of the Catholic assassin was to murder Bismarck as the originator of the Kulturkampf . The Kulturkampf was a conflict between the Catholic Church under Pope Pius IX. and the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire under Bismarck between 1871 and 1887.

Kullmann was sentenced to 14 years in prison and again to seven years in prison for insubordination before this sentence expired. In 1888 he was transferred from the St. Georgen workhouse in Bayreuth to the Amberg prison , where he died lonely and forgotten of a lung disease.

Aloys Hennes composed the march “Bismarck Hoch” and Johann Valentin Hamm the “Bismarck-Rettungs-Jubel-Marsch” in memory of the failed assassination attempt.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon: All Berlin streets and squares, from the foundation to the present. S. 386, Verlag Neues Leben / Edition Luisenstadt, 1998, ISBN 3-355-01491-5 .
  • Gerhard Taddey : Lexicon of German history . People, events, institutions from the turn of the times to the end of the Second World War , p. 684, Alfred Kröner Verlag , Stuttgart 1977.
  • Hermann Julius Meyer: Meyer's large conversation lexicon. A reference work of general knowledge , p. 785, Bibliographisches Institut, 1905.
  • Hanns HF Schmidt: The shot on the snake , in: Altmarkblätter , local supplement of the Altmark Zeitung No. 4 of January 23, 1999.

Web links

Commons : Assassination attempt on Otto von Bismarck 1874  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Hanns HF Schmidt: The shot on the snake
personal data
SURNAME Kullmann, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kullmann, Eduard Franz Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German craftsman, Bismarck assassin
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg - Neustadt
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1892
Place of death On the mountain