Ferdinand Nägele

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Ferdinand Nägele

Johann Ferdinand Nagele (* 24. May 1808 in Murrhardt ; † 25. November 1879 ibid) was Schlosser champion and the only craftsmen in the Frankfurt National Assembly , where he joined the group German yard or later March Association belonged.

Life

Nägeles parents were the Murrhardt master locksmith Johann Adam Nägele and Johanna Jacobina Hartmann. He was the youngest of four siblings. When attending the elementary and Latin school in Murrhardt, he showed outstanding achievements and was particularly gifted in geometry , drawing and French. His school achievements would have enabled him to pursue a civil service career, but like his father he decided to train as a locksmith and worked as a locksmith's assistant in Murrhardt from 1835.

Nägele showed strong political interest. He was liberal, advocated freedom of trade and the elimination of guild compulsions and was close to the People's Party after it was founded . In Murrhardt, in 1829 he was co-founder and chairman of the Murrhardter Liederkranz , a liberal-democratically oriented choral society , and in 1833 co-editor of the weekly newspaper Tubus , which was banned by the authorities after three months. He was a freelancer for the newspapers Der Hochwächter (later The Observer ) , Schwäbischer Merkur , Heilbronner Tagblatt and Neckar-Dampfschiff .

Nägele devoted a significant part of his work to the struggle "with hard-heartedness against poverty on the one hand and with the work reluctance and profligacy of a large part of the poor on the other." From 1835 he was a member of the Murrhardt Foundation Council and the Church Convention , from 1840 he was a Protestant foundation curator. He was a member of the Murrhardt Citizens' Committee from 1835 to 1843, the local council from 1844 to 1845 and again from 1847 until his death. In 1848 he was one of the founders of the Murrhardt gymnastics club in 1848. In 1853 he was elected to Murrhardter Stadtschultheissen , but was not confirmed by the government.

In the election to the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848 he ran in the 7th constituency of the Neckar district - Backnang. At an election meeting in the constituency city of Weinsberg , the doctor and poet Justinus Kerner stood up for his election with the words "Not doctors, not learned spirits, we will choose a master locksmith!" Nägele won the election with a clear majority of 5,932 votes (against 1,047 and 610 of his opposing candidates) and was one of the few craftsmen in the National Assembly. Even in the 5th constituency of the Neckar district - Besigheim - he received 1611 votes, although he had not officially run there. In the National Assembly, Nägele joined the Democrats.

In the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies he represented the constituency of Weinsberg in 1848/1849 and in 1849/1850 in the three extraordinary state parliaments that were supposed to revise the Württemberg constitution of 1819 or replace it with a new constitution, then the constituency of Backnang. From 1862 to 1870 he again represented the constituency of Backnang in the chamber. In the election in 1862 he was only able to prevail in the runoff election against Christian Daniel Schmückle , in 1868 he was able to win clearly, in the election in 1870 he was then defeated by Friedrich von Dillenius . In the chamber, Nägele campaigned, among other things, for the construction of the Murrtalbahn , for which he was involved as a co-founder of the company for the construction of a railway through the Murrtal in Murrhardt as early as 1860. The railway was built and reached Murrhardt in 1878.

In 1869, the Murrhardter Gewerbebank was founded under the management of Nägeles, who was its director until his death. In 1873 he retired. Ferdinand Nägele died of pneumonia on November 25, 1879 .

In addition to his offices in politics and economy, Nägele also emerged as a parliamentary reporter and author of numerous papers, articles and books on work, politics and local history. The city of Murrhardt was the first to give him honorary citizenship .

family

Ferdinand Nägele's first marriage from 1835 to Adelheide Fichtner (* 1811 or 1812; † 1837), his second marriage from 1838 to Christiane Gottliebin Schieber (1814–1843), and his third marriage from 1844 to Luise Pauline Kapp (1823–1901 ). From the first marriage a child who died again soon emerged, from the second marriage the sons Ferdinand (* 1838, became a businessman in Stuttgart) and Christian (* 1843, became a locksmith in America) as well as two other children who died early. Nägele had five more children with his third wife: the daughter Mathilde (* 1845, married a merchant in Schwäbisch Gmünd ), the sons Reinhold (* 1848, painter in Stuttgart, father of the artist of the same name Reinhold Nägele ), Otto (* 1850, Mechanikus in Neunkirchen an der Saar ) and Eugen Nägele (1856–1937, teacher and publicist) as well as the youngest daughter Emma (* 1859).

Individual evidence

  1. Written on his 40th birthday in 1848. Quoted from Reinhold (see literature), p. 428.

literature

  • Bernhard Mann : Ferdinand Nägele. Master locksmith and democrat . DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-87181-726-7 .
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 599-600 .
  • Gotthard GG Reinhold: Nägele, Johann Ferdinand. In: Revolution in the Southwest . Edited by the working group of full-time archivists in the Baden-Württemberg Association of Cities. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1997, ISBN 3-88190-219-8 , pp. 427-429.

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