Feodor quarrel

Memorial plaque Feodor Streit - Coburg , House Theaterplatz 4a

Feodor Streit (born September 2, 1820 in Hildburghausen , † August 14, 1904 in Coburg ) was a German democratically minded politician and publicist. He was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Coburg and managing director of the German national association .

Life

Feodor Streit was the son of Gustav Wilhelm Streit, who had served as an officer in the Wars of Liberation , and his mother, Esther, who was a daughter of Superintendent Wilhelm Müller. He graduated from the Casimirianum grammar school in Coburg in 1841 . He then studied law and political science in Jena and Heidelberg . During his studies he became a member of the fraternity on the Fürstenkeller , then in 1841 the Burgkeller fraternity and in January / February 1843 brought about the unification of the two parties. He later turned away from the fraternity. In Jena he belonged to a Christian association that was in close contact with similar associations in Halle ( Hallenser Wingolf ), Bonn ( Bonner Wingolf ), Erlangen ( C. St. V. Uttenruthia Erlangen ) and Heidelberg ( Heidelberg Wingolf ). In Heidelberg he joined the Heidelberg Wingolf. There he made the acquaintance of noble fellow students, but also came into contact with the left-wing liberals in Baden. He took his oral law exam in 1846, the written exams dragged on, and his dissertation was eventually held up by the revolution of 1848.

Feodor Streit was employed in the justice service of Sachsen-Coburg in 1848, but was immediately given leave of absence due to the revolution. He traveled to Baden, Frankfurt am Main and Switzerland to discuss future political action with like-minded people. In Coburg he founded a democratic citizens' association. In April 1848 he was an elector for Sonnefeld in order to elect a representative for Coburg for the Frankfurt National Assembly. He openly stood up for the republic and in vain for the publisher Joseph Meyer as a member of parliament. In October he left the civil service and worked as a lawyer. He also became editor of the Coburger Tageblatt, which was founded in May. Feodor Streit advocated a democratic-republican and Greater German course. At the beginning of 1849 he founded the New German Village Newspaper as the newspaper of the Democrats for Saxony-Coburg, Thuringia and Franconia . His critical reports led to a number of trials, so that between 1848 and 1852 he was imprisoned for a total of 40 months. In 1851 the Neue Deutsche Dorfzeitung and the Coburger Tageblatt had to be discontinued.

In the same year Feodor Streit married his long-time fiancée Friederike Luise Saalmüller. The marriage produced a daughter and a son who died early. Between 1857 and 1867 he was a member of the Coburg state parliament . He stood up for the welfare of the poorer population, for freedom of the press, but also for the right of women to vote at community level. In particular, he was committed to German unity. He saw a first step in the complete unification of Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Gotha . Duke Ernst II also agreed with this latter goal . His relationship with the Duke was always good, so that he included him in his efforts for German unity.

The newly founded German National Association had its seat in Coburg. Feodor Streit was elected to the governing committee and became managing director of the association. As such, he was one of the main organizers of the national club. He held the national movement together by letters and articles. He represented the radical wing of the club. After his return from exile, Gustav Struve settled in Coburg and supported the direction of Streits. Various writings by Struve were also published by Streits Verlag.

Feodor Streit played a key role in organizing the association's first general assembly in Coburg in 1860. He also became editor and editor of the National Association's weekly. After the first German gymnastics festival, also in Coburg in 1860, Feodor Streit founded the gymnastics and military newspaper. After the founding of the German Shooting Federation, this became the German shooting and defense newspaper. In 1862 he was also involved in founding the workers ' education association in Coburg and published a workers' newspaper. The Allgemeine Deutsche Arbeiterzeitung followed a year later. The Coburger Tageblatt followed again between 1864 and 1867.

Due to financial disputes, Feodor Streit gave up the publication of the national association's weekly publication in 1865 and also resigned from the association itself. His publisher and printer ran into financial difficulties. He was sentenced to two years in prison for embezzlement and indebtedness and was released in 1871. In the meantime, German unification by Otto von Bismarck had taken place on a monarchical and small-German basis. There is little concrete evidence of his later life. Quarrel may have been a social democratic agitator. If you follow the editors of the Marx-Engels Complete Edition , he was nationally liberal at the end of the 1860s. In the end he died largely forgotten.

A plaque commemorates him at Theaterplatz 4a in Coburg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine Susanne Rabe: Equality of man and woman. The Krause School and the bourgeois women's movement in the 19th century. Cologne, 2006 p. 101
2. ^ Ansgar Reiss: Radicalism and Exile. Gustav Struve and Democracy in Germany and America. Wiesbaden, 2004 p. 39
3. ↑ Reference to coburg-geschichte.de ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ^ Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels: Correspondence, June 1860 to December 1861. Berlin, 2005 p. 1418

literature

• Harald Bachmann: Coburg and the Revolution of 1848/49 pp. 154–155 online edition (PDF; 1.3 MB)
• 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. 543-545.
• Alexander Wolz: Feodor Streit - an "upright democrat" between Duke Ernst II and Karl Marx . In: Coburger Geschichtsblätter 27 (2019), pp. 47-64, ISSN 0947-0336