Franz Stromeyer

Franz Joseph Stromeyer , also Strohmeyer , pseudonym : Franz Schlund (born August 9, 1805 in Tauberbischofsheim , † December 16, 1848 in Constance ) was a German publisher , publicist and revolutionary . He campaigned for the preservation of freedom of the press and freedom of expression in Germany and was a speaker at the Hambach Festival of 1832. In 1832 he was editor and publisher of the Guardian on the Rhine .

Live and act

Franz Stromeyer's father was the medical officer Karl Joseph Stromeyer, who was married to Maria (née Nischl). He was raised Catholic . Stromeyer studied camera science in Heidelberg . Here he joined the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft in 1825 , as did his brother Karl Mathy (1807–1868) and later brother-in-law, who married his sister Anna (1801–1882) in 1833 in Schwetzingen .

Stromeyer was an employee of the " Westbote " published by Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer (previously Der Bote aus Westen ). In 1832 he himself became the publisher and editor of the Mannheim “Wächters am Rhein”. “Der Wächter am Rhein” was printed by Kaufmann's widow. The then 27-year-old Stromeyer had not yet reached the age of thirty in the Grand Duchy of Baden , as required by press law , and therefore drew with the pseudonym "Franz Schlund." In the address book of residents this was stated as "Citizen and Ackersmann." appeared a few weeks, she was attacked by the loyal press, because she reported critically in tones never heard before about the government and administration. The government demanded an “examination of the mental faculties of Franz Schlund,” but this attempt to stop the magazine came to nothing.

Associated with the opposition movement, Stromeyer was a speaker at the Hambach Festival and a participant in the meeting in the Schoppmann estate. As a result of the festival and the positive reports in his newspaper about it, the government accused “Franz Schlund” of “attentive high treason [sic!]” And sentenced him to six months in prison. At the same time, Stromeyer was to serve two months in prison for “press offenses”. However, the sentence was suspended after he appealed.

Stromeyer used this to flee and went to Strasbourg . There is evidence that he lived there from September 18, 1832 to March 1833. Then he went to Switzerland, where he was one of the founders of Young Germany and became a member of the first Central Committee. In 1834 he was a co-signer of the Brotherhood Act of Young Europe . In Zurich he was the main editor of the “ Schweizer Freiheitsfreund ” for a few months . In 1834 he was arrested. His Junge Deutschland 'comrades expelled him in June 1834 for "carelessness" and sentenced him to death. A little later he was in contact with Bernhard Lizius . In 1836 he was expelled from Swiss territory by the Diet , which brought him back to Strasbourg. In the meantime he also spent some time in Paris .

From 1837 to 1842 he was in London , where he could hardly finance his living. In France and England he worked for various newspapers and tried his hand at teaching. From 1842 Stromeyer organized the young German secret organization of the " Léman-Bund ." Under the code names "Lindner" and "Dr. West ”he reported on the young German and communist associations in Switzerland, as a full-time Confident , since he was in the Austrian service of the Metternich information office in Mainz .

With his writings he contributed to the spread of Fourierist theory in Germany.

Remarks

1. ↑ on the middle name Franz Joseph Stromeyer cf. Historical Lexicon of Switzerland ; on the spelling of the surname Strohmeyer cf. History of Baden-Württemberg: a reading book , p. 179 f. and Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence , p. 451
2. ↑ The date of birth is stated differently:
   1804 in the history of Baden-Württemberg: a reading book , p. 179 f .;
   1805 in Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz , in German Literature in Swiss Exile , p. 38 & in Vom Intellektivenblatt zur democratic combat press , p. 56;
   1808 in Neue Deutsche Biographie (1990), Vol. 16, p. 380;
   1815 in Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence , p. 451
3. ↑ The date of death is given differently:
   1847 in Deutsche Literatur Im Schweizer Exil , p. 38 and in Neue Deutsche Biographie (1990), vol. 16, p. 380;
   1848 in Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz and in Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence , p. 451

literature

• Albert Portmann-Tinguely: Franz Joseph Stromeyer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 2, 2012 , accessed June 16, 2019 .
• Jefferson Adams: Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence . Scarecrow Press, Maryland 2009, pp. 451 ( books.google.de ).
• 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. 552-553.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Erich Angermann:  Mathy, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 380 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Otto Borst: Mathy, Karl . In: Susanne and Franz Quarthal (eds.): History of Baden-Württemberg: a reading book . Theiss, 2004, ISBN 978-3-8062-1730-8 , pp. 179 ff . ( books.google.de ).
3. ^ ^{A b c d e f g h i j} Albert Portmann-Tinguely: Stromeyer, Franz. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Antje Gerlach: German literature in Swiss exile . Vittorio Klostermann, 1975, ISBN 3-465-01042-6 , p. 38 f . ( books.google.de ).
5. ^ German fraternity: 175 years of the Hambach Festival. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 22, 2012 ; accessed on January 15, 2013 (in section Why Hambach? ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Udo Leuscher: From the intelligence paper to the democratic combat press. Mannheim newspapers until 1859 . 2008, p. 56 ff . ( udo-leuschner.de [PDF]).
7. ^ ^{A b} Jefferson Adams: Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence . Scarecrow Press, Maryland 2009, pp. 451 ( books.google.de ).