Friedrich August Lehlbach

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Friedrich August Lehlbach , also Frederick August Lehlbach , (born January 29, 1805 in Ladenburg , † September 9, 1875 in Newark ) was a Baden Protestant pastor and politician.

After attending grammar school in Heidelberg, Lehlbach studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Halle . In 1828 he was in the Protestant church Ladenburg ordained . As a clergyman of the United Evangelical Protestant Church in the Grand Duchy of Baden , Lehlbach was vicar and in 1828 pastor at the Christ Church in Wiesloch and from 1833 pastor in Neunstetten and from 1841 to 1849 in Heiligkreuzsteinach .

In the Baden Revolution of 1848/49 he was one of the spiritual leaders. He set up three companies in the Odenwald villages of the Steinach Valley , which joined the revolutionary troops. After Friedrich Hecker's flight in 1848, Lehlbach was elected to the second chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly and the following year to the constituent assembly in the 17th district . After the revolution was suppressed by federal troops and several Prussian army corps under Prince Wilhelm , Lehlbach fled to the United States . In Baden he was sentenced in absentia for high treason to nine years in prison and a fine of 9,000 guilders. In Newark , New Jersey , he was pastor of the German Reformed Church from 1849 until his death.

His son Herman Lehlbach (1845-1904) represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives between 1885 and 1891 . His grandson Frederick R. Lehlbach (1876–1937) was also a member of Congress for New Jersey.

literature

  • Michael Bock: Lehlbach, Friedrich August, pastor . In: Working group of the archives in the Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck (ed.): The Rhine-Neckar area and the revolution of 1848/49. Revolutionaries and their opponents . Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-64-9 .
  • Michael Bock: Friedrich August Lehlbach. Pastor, parliamentarian and revolutionary . In: Hierzuland , 13th year 1998, issue 26, pp. 38–42
  • Harald Gomille: Wilhelmsfeld: The history of the community . Ubstadt-Weiher 2004, ISBN 978-3-89735-267-4 .
  • Sonja-Maria Bauer: The Constituent Assembly in the Baden Revolution of 1849 . Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5164-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notice of death in The New York Times September 11, 1875
  2. ^ Heinrich Neu: Parish book of the Protestant Church of Baden from the Reformation to the present. Vol. 2, Schauenburg Verlagbuchhandlung, Lahr (Black Forest), 1939, p. 365.
personal data
SURNAME Lehlbach, Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehlbach, Frederick August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor and politician from Baden
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiligkreuzsteinach
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1875
Place of death Newark