Florian Mördes

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Florian Georg Franz Bernhard Mördes (born October 4, 1823 in Mannheim , † January 21, 1850 in New Braunfels ) was a German lawyer, politician and briefly interior minister of the Baden revolutionary government in 1849 .

Life

Mördes was the son of the lawyer Franz Bernhard Mördes, who represented the constituency Buchen / Osterburken in the second chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly from 1833 to 1841 . In November 1841 he began studying law at the University of Heidelberg. During his studies in 1845 he was a co-founder of the Neckarbund Heidelberg fraternity .

In May 1848 Mördes became the head of the Democratic Society in Mannheim. In July 1848, together with E. Pelz and David Sauerländer, he took over the editing of the "Deutsches Viewer" , the weekly newspaper that was previously edited by Gustav Struve . This led to a heated argument with Struve.

On May 14, 1849 Mördes appeared at a people's assembly in Mannheim as President of the Security Committee and announced that he had manned the public coffers with guards. Mördes belonged - together with Struve and others - to those who called a people's assembly in Mannheim on May 20, 1849, at which Mördes also gave a speech in front of the 6000 people present.

A safety committee was formed, headed by Florian Mördes. On the following two days the Dragoons swore the oath on the imperial constitution and the provisional government. The officer corps and some non-commissioned officers left beforehand. On May 19, the ruling state committee gave Heinrich Hoff the power to carry out the resolutions of the provisional government in Mannheim as civil commissioner. Hoff transferred the power of attorney to Florian Mördes the next day. Since Mördes was considered too lax, Wilhelm Adolph von Trützschler from Gotha took over the office of civil commissioner on May 25th .

Mördes was not a member of the state committee of the people's associations, which took power on May 14th. However, he was in the elections for the constituent assembly on June 3 in the constituency XIX. (Booking etc.) selected. The assembly then elected him one of its secretaries and on June 13th Lorenz Brentano appointed him interior minister of the revolutionary government.

After the revolution was put down, Mördes first fled to Switzerland. In July 1849, the Baden authorities asked the canton of Basel-Land for administrative assistance in the search for Mördes, which was then also advertised on July 10, 1849 in the official journal of the Basel region. As Interior Minister of the revolutionary government, Baden accused him of stealing cash, government papers and the scoop for printing government papers. Mördes wandered even in 1849 with his wife, Caroline, born Countess Armansperg (daughter of the former Bavarian Governor of Greece, Joseph of Armansperg ) to Texas from. There he lived as a farmer near New Braunfels and had a son with his wife. He died there as early as 1850. His wife married Julius Froebel in 1856 as a second marriage .

Works

literature

  • Roswitha von Bary-Armansperg: In the shadow of the barricades: 3 life fates d. German Revolution . In: Geschichte - 1986, 73; Pp. 23-29
  • Max Oeser: History of the City of Mannheim , Mannheim 1908 in the Internet Archive
  • Sonja-Maria Bauer: The Constituent Assembly in the Baden Revolution of 1849 , 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5164-5
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 124-126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Max Oeser: History of the City of Mannheim , Mannheim 1908, p. 580 in the Internet Archive
  2. ↑ s. Max Oeser: History of the City of Mannheim , Mannheim 1908, p. 586 in the Internet Archive
  3. ↑ s. www.udo-leuschner.de/zeitungsgeschichte/
  4. ↑ s. Martin Leuenberger: Free and equal ... and strange. Refugees in the Basel area between 1830 and 1880 . Liestal 1996
personal data
SURNAME Mördes, Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mördes, Florian Georg Franz Bernhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and interior minister of the Baden revolutionary government
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1850
Place of death New Braunfels