Friedrich Hedde

Friedrich Hedde , after his emigration mostly Fred Hedde (born September 11, 1818 in Rendsburg , † March 5, 1908 in Grand Island , Nebraska) was a German-American lawyer and politician.

Life

Friedrich Hedde was a member of the Hedde family of the Wesselburen pastor Jacob Friedrich Hedde (1743–1796) and his wife Catharina Dorothea Claussen (1763–1802). He had eight siblings, three of whom died before adulthood. Hedde attended the Rendsburg School of Academics and studied law at the University of Kiel from the winter semester 1836/37 . There he was a member of a fraternity . In 1841 he passed his state examination in law and had been a junior lawyer in Kiel since 1842.

After the Schleswig-Holstein survey failed, the Danish authorities withdrew his license to practice as a lawyer and Hedde emigrated in 1854, first to New York and then to Davenport (Iowa) . From 1857 he lived in the new German founding Grand Island (Nebraska), where he worked successfully as a businessman and publicist. He was the founding editor of the Grand Island Daily Independent .

politics

Friedrich Hedde, who had no political mandate until the March Revolution , was one of the leaders of the left-wing liberals in the Schleswig-Holstein uprising. At the people's assembly in Rendsburg on March 18, 1848 and in the context of the discussions about the formation of the Provisional Government on March 23, 1848, he spoke out in favor of extensive liberalization. In the following months he was an officer in the Kiel vigilante group and successor to Theodor Olshausen as editor of the "Kieler Correspondenz-Blatt". From March 27, 1848 to September 8, 1848 he was a member of the extraordinary magistrate of the city of Kiel and was particularly involved in the "Commission for the Employment of Workers".

In the election for the constituent state assembly at the end of July, his candidacy in the 2nd Holstein electoral district (Kiel, Brunswik) failed. On 28/29 September 1848 he was elected in a by-election in Schönberg (the previous mandate holder Hans Reimer Claussen had been elected to the National Assembly) in the State Assembly. He also won a mandate in the elections for the state assembly in 1850. At the last session of the regional assembly he voted against the acceptance of the Olomouc punctuation . He was one of the leaders of the Chamber's left opposition.

In the years 1851 to 1853 he was the defender of his colleague in parliament, the teacher Marcus Mester from Döhnsdorf, who was accused of incitement in the Schleswig-Holstein insurrection. The Danish authorities revoked Hedde's license to practice law and Hedde immigrated to New York and later to Davenport.

literature

Martin Rackwitz: March Revolution in Kiel. 2011, ISBN 978-3-8042-1342-5 , short biography on pp. 205–206, many other mentions

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Hedde - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Dietrich Korth: Hedde family . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 138.

personal data
SURNAME	Hedde, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hedde, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 1908
Place of death	Grand Island

[1] Dietrich Korth: Hedde family . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 138.