Friedrich Jacob Schütz

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Friedrich Jacob Schütz (born August 31, 1813 in Mainz , † March 4, 1877 in Rotterdam ) was a German politician and revolutionary.

Life

Schütz began to study law at the University of Giessen in 1832 and became a member of the old Giessen fraternity Germania . In 1833 he took part in the Frankfurt Wachensturm and then, together with Georg Büchner and August Becker, co-founded the Society of Human Rights , which was involved in the distribution of the Hessian Landbote . After his arrest for revolutionary activities, he was released on bail and fled via Switzerland to Brussels , where he taught as a teacher at a girls' school from 1834.

In 1848 Schütz was granted an amnesty and worked briefly as a private lecturer in archeology in Gießen and Erlangen before he became editor of the Mainzer Zeitung after the outbreak of the March Revolution and once again joined democratic associations. In September of the same year he took part in the September riots in Frankfurt and then fled again to Brussels. In January 1849 he was elected to succeed Joseph Brunck for the constituency of Bingen in the German National Assembly, where he belonged to the radical Donnersberg faction .

On May 15, 1849, however, he ended his parliamentary activities to support the uprisings in Baden and the Palatinate . From May to June, Schütz was, among other things, a representative of the revolutionary Baden government at the provisional Palatinate government in Kaiserslautern and chargé d'affaires of the Palatinate government in Paris , where he took part in the barricade fighting after the closure of the national workshops. After the unrest was finally put down, he fled to Brussels again. In Hesse he was sentenced in absentia to six years in prison for high treason . In 1850 Schütz emigrated to Australia and first worked as a road worker before he found a job as an educator in the house of the British governor in Melbourne . In 1856 Schütz went to the USA , where he worked as a language teacher in New York and supported the Republican Party . Schütz returned to Europe as the American consul in Rotterdam.

literature

  • Heinrich Best, Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 310.
  • 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. 346-347.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, F. Germania. No. 471.

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personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Friedrich Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1877
Place of death Rotterdam