Eduard Souchay
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
- Rudolf Jung : Souchay, Eduard Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 697 f.
- Reinhard Frost: Souchay, Eduard Franz , in: Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . P. 400
- Guenther Roth: Max Weber's German-English family history 1800–1950 . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2001, pp. 450–456 ( online version )
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 460-461.
Web links
- Works by and about Eduard Souchay in the German Digital Library
- Souchay, Eduard. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- BUNDESARCHIV - Central database for estates In: '' nachlassdatenbank.de ''. Retrieved on September 1, 2016 (information about the Eduard Souchay estate in the Frankfurt Institute for Urban History)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
- ↑ Konrad Duden (1829-1911), linguist at lvr .de, Rhenish History Portal, accessed on June 21, 2015
personal data | |
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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 |