Eduard Zimmermann (politician)
Eduard Zimmermann (born September 4, 1811 in Berlin ; † February 29, 1880 there ) was a German lawyer and left-wing liberal politician.
Life
Zimmermann attended the Friedrichs-Werdersche Gymnasium in Berlin. His father was the rector of this institution. Later he also attended the Gray Monastery high school . He then studied law and political science at Berlin University from 1811 to 1835. There he was also promoted to Dr. jur. PhD
After completing the usual legal preparatory service, he transferred to the administrative service and in 1839 became mayor of Spandau . He was a member of the Osthavelland district council , the municipal council and the provincial council of the province of Brandenburg .
In 1847/48 he was a member of the First and Second United State Parliaments and was a member of the committee to deliberate on a new criminal code. In the election for the Frankfurt National Assembly , he was elected for the constituency of Luckau .
In parliament he belonged to the extreme left and worked there in this spirit. He belonged to the Donnersberg parliamentary group and was a member of the Central March Association . Zimmermann did not acknowledge the decision of the Prussian government to reassign MPs in May 1849 after the victory of the counter-revolution in Prussia. In June of that year he also took part in the move to Stuttgart , where he was a member of the so-called rump parliament . During this time he also published the Havelländische Volksblatt.
After the remnants of parliament were dissolved, Zimmermann returned to Prussia. He was charged and in February 1850 for alleged treason to a 12-year imprisonment sentenced. Even before other instances could deal with the first judgment, Zimmermann evaded further judicial proceedings in Prussia in August 1850 by a spectacular escape via Heligoland to London.
After completing a five-year legal training course there, he trained in English law. In 1855 he was admitted to the bar in all English courts. At the same time he wrote for various English and German magazines. In 1858 he was given an amnesty. He returned to Berlin in 1861 as a freelance lawyer under English law.
He joined the liberal Progress Party . In Berlin he was a member of the city council. He was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1877 to 1880 . Between 1871-1874 and 1877 as well as from 1877 to 1880 he was a member of the Reichstag .
In April 2018, the Heimatkundliche Vereinigung Spandau 1954 eV - Spandauer Geschichtsverein proposed that the town hall forecourt in Berlin-Spandau (zip code 13597) be named Eduard-Zimmermann-Platz. This place currently has no name. So far, no honor in the form of a street or square name has been given to this important politician and pioneer of democracy, Eduard Zimmermann.
Individual evidence
literature
- Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels Complete Edition (MEGA) Section 3: Correspondence. Vol. 11: June 1860 to December 1861 Berlin, 2005. S. 1425
- Karl-Heinz Bannasch: Eduard Zimmermann - Spandau's mayor in the revolutionary time of 1848/49, in: Spandauer Forschungen Volume 2, ed. v. Joachim Pohl and Karl-Heinz Bannasch, Berlin 2012, pp. 175–227.
- Karl-Heinz Bannasch: Eduard Zimmermann - parliamentarian, prisoner and convict, Spandau's mayor during the revolution from 1848 - 1850, in: Justice in the city and state of Brandenburg through the centuries, published by Klaus-Christoph Claceè on behalf of the Brandenburg Higher Regional Court , a project by the University of Potsdam, Faculty of Law, Brandenburg 1998, pp. 116–128.
- Spandauer Volksblatt of April 25, 2018, p. 2, mayor as namesake.
Web links
- Eduard Zimmermann in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zimmermann, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (DFP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 1880 |
| Place of death | Berlin |
- ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 432.