Felix von Lichnowsky

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Prince Felix von Lichnowsky

Prince Felix Maria Vincenz Andreas von Lichnowsky , Count von Werdenberg, (born April 5, 1814 in Vienna , † September 18, 1848 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Prussian , right-wing liberal politician. The MP in the Frankfurt National Assembly was killed in riots.

Life

Prince Felix from the Silesian-Bohemian noble family Lichnowsky was a son of Prince Eduard von Lichnowsky . He succeeded his father as a prince and landowner in Silesia and Upper Silesia . From 1834 to 1837 he was a Prussian officer. In 1837 he went to Spain and took part in the First Carlist War (1833-1840) in the Carlist camp, most recently as brigadier general and diplomat. During this time he published a two-volume work.

Back in Germany, he became a member of the Silesian Landtag and the Prussian United Landtag . When, during the March Revolution, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV was forced by the angry masses on March 19, 1848 to appear on the balcony in front of the " March fallen " laid out on the Schlossplatz and to take off his hat, but he did so after bringing in more dead contrary to the calls of the crowd, did not reappear and thereby triggered a critical situation that almost resulted in the storming of the castle, which was only sparsely manned by military personnel, Lichnowsky jumped on a table and calmed the agitated crowd with a conciliatory speech, whereupon they dispersed.

Murder of Felix von Lichnowsky and Hans von Auerswald

On May 18, 1848 he became a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in the Paulskirche for the constituency of Ratibor . He was a member of the casino faction and was a member of three committees, including the Constitutional Committee .

On September 18, 1848 Lichnowsky was in turmoil after the vote to the truce of Malmö in Frankfurt ( September riots ) by an angry mob, who first Hans von Auerswald tracked, beaten up and had eventually taken with two shots to the track, also packed into his hiding place, He was taken away under abuse and was finally injured so badly by at least three shots that he died there in the late evening of September 18, although he was still in the Villa Bethmann and later in a Frankfurt hospital.

Freemason and fictional character

Lichnowsky was accepted into the Masonic lodge L'Age d'or during a stay in Paris in 1834 . Since 1835 he was the "constantly visiting brother" of the Friedrich Wilhelm Lodge for Justice in Ratibor , of which he became a full member in 1845. He was present when Franz Liszt was accepted into the Lodge Zur Einigkeit in Frankfurt am Main in 1841 .

Lithograph "The assassination of Prince von Lichnowsky in Frankfurt am Main on September 18, 1848."

Georg Weerth tells Lichnowsky's biography in his satirical key novel Life and Thats of the famous Knight Schnapphahnski , which the Neue Rheinische Zeitung reprinted from August 8, 1848 to January 21, 1849 in continuation. Weerth was sentenced to three months in prison in absentia for "disparaging the memory of a deceased person". His marriage with the Heligoland Anna Mohr, shown here, was included in many other novels.

Works

literature

  • August Karl von Goeben : Four years in Spain. The Carlist, their uprising, their struggle and their downfall. Sketches and memories from the civil war. Hahn, Hanover 1841, ( digitized version ).
  • Adolf Loning : The Spanish people in their classes, customs and traditions, with episodes from the Carlist Wars of Succession. Hahn, Hanover 1844, ( digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm von Rahden : Wanderings of an old soldier. Part 3: From Spain's Civil War. 1833-1840. Decker, Berlin, 1851, ( digitized version ).
  • Antonio Pirala: Historia de la guerra civil, y de los partidos liberal y carlista. 2a edición, refundida y aumentada con la historia de la regencia de Espareteo. 6 volumes. F. de P. Mellado y Ca, Madrid 1868-1870.
  • Franz Philipp von SommarugaLichnowski, Prince Felix . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 533 f.
  • Roland Hoede: The Paulskirche as a symbol. Freemasons in their work for unity and freedom from 1833 to 1999 (= source study work of the research lodge Quatuor Coronati. 39, ZDB -ID 1087292-9 ). Research Lodge Quatuor Coronati, Bayreuth 1999, p. 94 f.
  • Dušan Uhlíř: Slezský šlechtic Felix Lichnovský. Poslední láska kněžny Zaháňské. Paseka, Prague et al. 2009, ISBN 978-80-7432-014-9 .
  • Martin Herzig: loved - hated - lynched. Life and death of Prince Felix Maria Lichnowsky. (1814-1848). NoRa, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86557-306-3 .

Web links

Wikisource: Felix Lichnowsky  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Felix Lichnowsky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Baptismal Book - 01-47 | 01., Our Lady of the Scots | Vienna, rk. Archdiocese (eastern Lower Austria and Vienna) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  2. Werner von Siemens: Memoirs at Zeno.org . Piper Verlag, Munich 2004, page 73
  3. ^ Remigius Brückmann: The murder of the deputies von Auerswald and von Lichnowsky on September 18, 1848 in Frankfurt am Main. In: Christine Vogel, Herbert Schneider, Horst Carl (eds.): Media events in the 18th and 19th centuries. Contributions to an interdisciplinary conference on the occasion of Rolf Reichhardt's 65th birthday. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58296-3 , pp. 113–144, here: p. 118. Christian Reinhold Köstlin : see: Auerswald and Lichnowsky , Tübingen 1863.
  4. Eckhard Wallmann, Helgoland - Eine deutsche Kulturgeschichte, Hamburg 2017, page 382 ff and more