Franz Fraas

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Karl Franz Christian Jakob Fraas (born January 8, 1802 in Weinsberg ; † December 8, 1877 in the United States ) was the city ​​councilor of the city of Weinsberg from 1845 to 1853 and from 1849/50 a member of three extraordinary Württemberg state parliaments that revised the Württemberg constitution of 1819 or should replace it with a new constitution.

Life

Franz Fraas was the son of a notary and bill probator in Weinsberg. From 1823 to 1826 he studied law at the University of Tübingen . Because of "fraternity activities" - he had been a member of the Germania fraternity since 1823 - was investigated against him. After graduating, Fraas became a legal counsel in his hometown of Weinsberg . At a public meeting in front of the Weinsberg town hall in 1833 he made a request to the Germans and a protest against the Bundestag resolutions to His Majesty the King , which resulted in a conviction of a fine.

In 1844 Fraas ran for the first time in the Weinsberg constituency for the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies , but was subject to the Ludwigsburg chief magistrate Karl Friedrich Heyd . Fraas stood as a candidate for the new election of a city school on December 9, 1845, which was required after the death of Heinrich Pfaff , Weinsberger Stadtschultheiss , and won with a large majority. The government of the Neckar District only confirmed his election in March 1846; on March 11, 1846 he took office.

In the revolutionary year of 1848 Fraas tried unsuccessfully to run for election to the Frankfurt National Assembly on April 26th. The candidate and later member of the constituency of Backnang (7th constituency in the Neckar district) in Frankfurt was instead Ferdinand Nägele ; Despite not officially running, Fraas received some votes. The well-known Weinsberg poet Justinus Kerner supported Nägele's candidacy because he wanted to see “men from the people” represented in the Frankfurt parliament and not just “learned men”. Kerner's attacks on the official elite during the election campaign resulted in a tense relationship between Fraas and the Kerner family. One month later, on May 25, 1848, Fraas ran again in the Weinsberg constituency for the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies, but was also defeated by Ferdinand Nägele in this election.

After the arrest warrant was issued against Justinus Kerner's son Theobald Kerner for a rebellious speech at a people's assembly in Heilbronn in September 1848 , he fled to Strasbourg . The authorities had him searched for on a wanted note and ordered the (later repealed) confiscation of his property. Stadtschultheiß Fraas carried out the collection of the necessary data for the profile and the listing of the assets of the Kerner family personally.

In the election to the constitution-revising state assembly of Württemberg in 1849, just one year after the regular election to the Chamber of Deputies, Fraas ran again in the Weinsberg constituency. After a bitter election campaign, he was only able to prevail against the Democratic candidate, Theobald Kerner, who had returned from Strasbourg in the second ballot on September 10th. Fraas also won the two elections for the state assembly advising the constitution in 1850; in the regular election of the Chamber of Deputies in 1851 he was then subject to the Löwensteiner Stadtschultheissen Karl Friedrich Troll .

After initiating a judicial investigation into property matters, Fraas had to resign in 1853 from his office as town school leader. In November 1853 he embarked in Le Havre for the USA and was wanted on a wanted list; the gantation of his goods took place in absentia. His further life is unknown.

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SURNAME Fraas, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fraas, Karl Franz Christian Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION City school of the city of Weinsberg, member of three extraordinary Württemberg state parliaments
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinberg
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1877
Place of death United States