Franz Joseph Richter

Franz Joseph Richter (born June 14, 1801 in Kappel am Rhein , † 1865 in New York ) was a Baden lawyer and politician .

Life

Richter studied philosophy , Catholic theology and law at the University of Freiburg and Heidelberg University from 1820 to 1825 . In 1820 he joined the old Freiburg fraternity . In 1835 at the latest, he entered the Baden civil service as a legal intern in Kappel and was attorney at court in Achern until 1849 .

In 1842, Richter became a member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly . In the course of the March Revolution he took part in the pre-parliament . From June 27, 1848 to the end of the rump parliament on June 18, 1849 he was a member of the 9th Baden constituency ( Lahr ) in the Frankfurt National Assembly . There he belonged to the left faction Donnersberg .

In December 1848 he became a member of the state committee of the democratic people's associations in Baden and in May 1849 took part in the third uprising of the Baden Revolution . He was a member of the constituent assembly and participant in the state congress of the people's associations in Offenburg . After the suppression of the March Revolution, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason , but evaded the punishment by fleeing to Switzerland . From there he traveled via France to the USA , where he worked as a lawyer from 1851 and as a notary in New York from 1864.

literature

• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 279.
• Rudolf Ritter : Franz Joseph Richter 1801-1863. A Kappeler as a revolutionary in 1848 , in: Geroldsecker Land, Vol. 33 (1991), pp. 64–68.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 66.