Franz Schmidt (politician, 1818)

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Ernst Friedrich Franz Schmidt (born November 28, 1818 in Niedersalzbrunn , Waldenburg district , province of Silesia ; †  March 29, 1853 in Matanzas , Cuba ) was a German Catholic theologian and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Schmidt was the son of a farm owner, Ernst Gottlieb Schmidt from Niedersalzbrunn . He attended elementary school in Stuttgart and the Protestant high school in Liegnitz . After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology in Breslau and Halle from 1840 . In 1840 he became a member of the “ Raczeks ” and in 1842 of the old Halle fraternity .

From 1846 to 1849 he was a German Catholic preacher in Löwenberg , from 1849 to 1850 in Elgg near St. Gallen .

In 1848 he was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly as a member of the Silesian constituency 5 (Löwenberg), where he belonged to the Stuttgart rump parliament . He was a member of the Donnersberg parliamentary group and voted against the election of Friedrich Wilhelm IV as German emperor.

May – June 1849 participant in the Baden-Palatinate uprising . Fled to Switzerland. Charged in October 1849 for high treason in Löwenberg and sentenced to ten years in prison in absentia. 1851 acquittal after being charged with participating in the rump parliament in Liegnitz . Sentenced to death in absentia by the Zweibrücken jury in 1851 for high treason, treason and rebellion.

In Milwaukee , he participated in the gymnastics and labor movement from 1850 to 1853. Schmidt was the founder of the Freemännerverein in St. Louis (1850-1853).

Schmidt, who was seriously ill with tuberculosis, died in 1853 while on a spa trip to Cuba.

From 1850 he was married to a daughter of the politician Theodor Schuster .

Works

  • You should be perfect! A sermon for the general Christian Church . In: The messenger from the Katzbachthale . No. 2/3 August 1845
  • A sermon and its denunciation. Published by Franz Schmidt, candidate for the evangelical preaching office . H. d'Oench, Liegnitz 1846
  • About the relationship of the Christian Catholic Church to earthly life . In: Ottomar Behnsch (Hrsg.): For Christ Catholic life. Materials on the history of the Christian Catholic Church . August Schulz & Comp., Volume 3, Breslau 1847, pp. 194–198 digitized
  • The four Gospels for easy comparison for all thinking people. With a chart of Palestine, ed. and add comments . Ostrowo, Breslau 1848
  • You cannot serve God and Mammon! Sermon . Self-published. Printed by AR Rauert, Löwenberg 1848
  • Return home from heaven to earth. A book for free Christians . Lumbrecht and Comp., Stuttgart 1851 digitized
  • (Ed.): Free sheets. Organ for religious enlightenment . St. Louis. Mon. March 18, 1851 - March 5, 1853
  • Farewell! In: Anzeiger des Westens . St. Louis, Mon. January 12, 1853

literature

  • Heinrich Börnstein : Our friend Franz Schmidt is no longer alive! In: Anzeiger des Westens . St. Louis, Mon. 23. April 1853
  • Franz Schmidt's funeral in Cuba . In: Anzeiger des Westens . St. Louis, Mon. May 14, 1853
  • St. Rowan: Franz Schmidt and the Freie Blätter of St. Louis, 1851-1853. In: The German-American Radical Press. The Shaping of a Left Political Culture 1850-1940, Urbarna 1992, pp. 31-48
  • St. Rowan: Anticlericalism, Atheism and Socialism in German St. Louis 1850-1853. Heinrich Börnstein and Franz Schmidt. In: H. Geitz (Ed.): The German American Press. Madison / Wisc. 1992, pp. 43-56
  • Walter Schmidt: Schmidt, Ernst Friedrich Franz . In: Manfred Asendorf, Rolf von Bokel: Democratic ways. German résumés from five centuries . JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1997 ISBN 3-476-01244-1 , pp. 554-556
  • Franz Schmidt (politician, 1818) . In: Heinrich Best : The members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/1849 (BIORAB-FRANKFURT) (the exact data set must be found).
  • Walter Schmidt: The Silesian radical democrat Franz Schmidt in the German Revolution 1848/49 . In: Walter Schmidt (Ed.): Democracy, the agrarian question and the nation in the bourgeois upheaval in Germany. Contributions to an honorary colloquium on the occasion of Helmut Bleiber's 70th birthday on November 28, 1998 . trafo Verlag, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-89626-259-9 , pp. 95–160 (Society - History - Present 29)
  • Walter Schmidt: Franz Schmidt - from farmer's son to German Catholic preacher. On the biography of the Silesian democrat 1818–1848 . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research . New series 2000. Argument, Hamburg 2000 ISBN 3-88619-686-0 , pp. 171-208
  • 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. 269-271
  • Walter Schmidt : Franz Schmidt (1818-1853). A forty-eight radical democrat from Silesia . In: Helmut Bleiber, Walter Schmidt, Susanne Schötz (Hrsg.): Actors of upheaval. Men and women of the revolution of 1848/49 . Fides, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-931363-11-2 , pp. 677-740
  • Clara Habermann: Copy of a memorial speech on the death of Heinrich Schmidt (Franz Schmidt's brother) given at Nidersalzbrunn on September 8th, 1839 (+ August 10th) , Görlitz, VIII, 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clara Habermann
  2. ↑ Helge Dvorak, p. 269.
  3. ^ Heinrich Best, Wilhelm Weege, p. 299.
  4. ^ Heinrich Best, Wilhelm Weege, pp. 299-300.
  5. ^ Heinrich Best, Wilhelm Weege, p. 300.
  6. ↑ Walter Schmidt : Life fates. Persecuted Silesian fraternities from the early 19th century. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Bans 22, 2003, pp. 449-521, here: p. 474.
  7. ^ Walter Schmidt (1997), p. 554.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Ernst Friedrich Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic preacher, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedersalzbrunn , Waldenburg district
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1853
Place of death Matanzas , Cuba