Franz Umbscheiden

Franz Umbscheiden (born June 24, 1825 in Grünstadt , † December 13, 1874 in Newark , New Jersey ) was a Palatinate revolutionary and journalist .

Life

Umbscheiden first studied law from 1845, then chemistry at the University of Giessen , where he was a member of the Corps Teutonia . In 1849 he was one of the protagonists of the imperial constitution campaign in the Palatinate . After the Palatinate uprising was put down, he was sentenced to death in absentia by the appellate court in Zweibrücken . However, he left in good time and emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a journalist and politician until his death. He was u. a. Editor of the New Jersey People's Man , New York Democrat, and Free Press in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He initially developed his political activity on the part of the Republicans. After the Civil War he switched to the Democratic Party.

family

His father was a peace court clerk in Green City and was appointed with 72 years as a judge, the mother came from the liberal pastor's family Geul. His older brother Philipp Umbscheiden was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , two other brothers were actively involved in the Palatinate uprising in 1849 , but were able to stay in the Palatinate.

literature

• F. Fenner v. Fenneberg: On the history of the Rhine-Palatinate revolution and the Baden uprising (1849)
• Kurt Baumann: A freedom fighter from the Palatinate. Changing . In: Palatinate. Heimatblätter 1 (1952)
• Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate Personalities (Edenkoben 1995)
• Rudolf H. Böttcher: Philipp Umbscheiden - The youngest is the last to be rehabilitated. In: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849. A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution. Special issue of the Association for Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies. Volume 14. Issue 6. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1999. P. 266f.