Eduard Souchay

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Eduard Franz Souchay de la Duboissière (born December 16, 1800 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 1, 1872 ibid) was a Frankfurt politician and lawyer. In 1849 he was Reich Commissioner for the German Central Authority .

life and work

He belonged to a long-established Huguenot Frankfurt merchant family who had achieved prosperity in the cloth trade. His father Cornelius Carl Souchay founded the cloth trading company Schunck, Souchay & Co. , which supplied the European market through its branches in England, Italy and Russia. Eduard Souchay grew up in a cultivated home. His father promoted the arts, his mother's salon, Helene nee. Schunck in the villa at Fahrtor was a social and cultural center of his hometown.

Eduard Souchay attended grammar school in Frankfurt from 1813 to 1818 . The lessons from the historian Friedrich Christoph Schlosser had a lasting effect. In 1818 he went to Heidelberg to study law and history, completed his studies in Göttingen and was awarded a doctorate in 1821. jur. PhD. During his studies he became a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft in 1818 and a member of the Old Göttingen Burschenschaft in 1821 . He settled in Frankfurt in 1823 as a lawyer, but in 1832 he changed to the judiciary as a city ​​judge and was last from 1839 to 1849 a judge of appeal .

From 1832 to 1849 he was a member of the Senate of the Free City of Frankfurt . As a senator he stood up in a liberal sense for the connection of Frankfurt to the Zollverein and for the railway construction . In 1838 he was the junior mayor .

In 1848 he was a member of the pre-parliament that  prepared the Frankfurt National Assembly. In 1848/1849 he was the authorized representative of Frankfurt for the provisional central authority , the all-German government at that time. In 1849 he was commissioned by the National Assembly to form a provisional government for Schleswig-Holstein . After the failure of the German Revolution in 1849, he gave up his senatorial office, but remained a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Free City of Frankfurt , to which he was a member from 1832 to 1857, most recently as its president. As a publisher and chairman of the Patriotic Association, he advocated a reform of the Frankfurt constitution, the constitutional amendment act . After the annexation of Frankfurt by Prussia , he was a member of the Frankfurt city council from 1868 until his death.

From 1848 to 1854 he employed Konrad Duden as a private tutor. Souchay was a longstanding board member of the Polytechnic Society . In 1846 he was one of the main speakers at the first Germanist Conference , which took place in Frankfurt. In 1849 he published his legal treatise Notes on the Reformation of the Free City of Frankfurt , 1861/62 the four-volume history of the German monarchy from its elevation to its decline .

Eduard Souchay is buried in the Frankfurt main cemetery. His grave has been declared an honorary grave and is a listed building . According to him, which is Souchaystraße in Sachsenhausen named.

Publications

  • Notes on the Reformation of the Free City of Frankfurt , 2 volumes, Frankfurt 1849
  • History of the German monarchy from its elevation to its decline , 4 volumes, Frankfurt 1861/62
  • Germany during the Reformation , Volume 1, Frankfurt 1868

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Souchay  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
  2. ↑ Konrad Duden (1829-1911), linguist at lvr .de, Rhenish History Portal, accessed on June 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Souchay, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Souchay, Eduard Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Frankfurt politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1872
Place of death Frankfurt am Main