Friedrich Justus Willich

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Friedrich Justus Willich (1847)
Portrait tombstone, Frankenthal main cemetery

Friedrich Justus Willich (born May 18, 1789 in Hanau ; died May 8, 1853 in Frankenthal ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Friedrich Justus Willich was the son of the teacher Johann Karl Willich and Sophie Kritter. In 1820 he married Elisabeth Josephine Schlemmer, daughter of the Speyer Provincial Archives Director Joseph Schlemmer (1767-1830), who was a member of the Mainz Jacobin Club . They had six children, including the painter Karl Caesar Willich .

Willich studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Strasbourg . After completing his doctorate, he worked as a lawyer first with Schlemmer in Speyer and then in Frankenthal and became active in local politics under the conditions of the restoration of absolutism . From 1826 to 1830 he was elected to the Palatinate District Administrator , the representative office in the Bavarian Rhine District . In January 1831 he was sent to the Chamber of Deputies of the Bavarian Estates Assembly in the class of landowners (class V, from 1845 in class IV) . In Munich Willich belonged to the anti-clerical, anti-monarchist liberal opposition, but was criticized by the radicals around Friedrich Schüler as a “ Justemilian and defector of the opposition” when he voted in 1832 for the authorities to appoint the justice of the peace. In keeping with this attitude, he did not take part in the Hambach Festival organized by Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer in 1832 because he did not share the latter's radical democratic goals, although he protested against the ban on the festival by the Bavarian government.

In 1834, 1837, 1840, 1842, 1845 and 1847 he was re-elected to the assembly of estates in Munich, where he became spokesman for the Palatinate MPs after the radicals left; in the 1837 electoral period he was a member of the presidium. However, in 1840 and 1842 the Bavarian government denied him the necessary leave of absence from his office in Frankenthal, an anti-democratic means against opposition MPs. When the Bavarian government again refused to grant him leave of absence in 1845, he resigned from his position as a lawyer in order to be able to exercise his mandate in the assembly of estates and published a pamphlet.

Willich was also a member of the Frankenthal City Council from 1838 to 1848, was chairman of the Sparkasse founded in 1836 and, in 1845, president of the committee for the construction of a railway from Ludwigshafen to the Grand-Ducal-Hessian border .

As one of the leading southern German liberals, he took part in the Heidelberg assembly on March 5, 1848 . He was elected to the Committee of Seven , which prepared the convening of the preliminary parliament and the Frankfurt National Assembly. Willich also belonged to the pre-parliament, which met from March 31 to April 3, 1848 in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt and decided to elect a national assembly. At the end of April, however, the Palatinate Volksverein did not nominate him as its candidate for election to the National Assembly.

Willich had been appointed privy councilor and Bavarian ambassador to the Bundestag of the German Confederation by King Maximillian II on March 24, 1848, even before the meeting of the pre-parliament . There he was delegated to the committees for the revision of the federal constitution, for military questions and for Schleswig-Holstein affairs. However, he was recalled on April 27, 1848.

In the revolution happening 1848/1849 was Willich no driving force. He left the meeting in Kaiserslautern at the beginning of May 1849 , at which the implementation of the imperial constitution campaign in the Palatinate was discussed and which initiated the Palatinate uprising , because he categorically rejected the formation of a national defense committee and a provisional Palatinate government.

After the crackdown on the revolution and the arrest or flight of the Democrats, he was re-elected to the Bavarian Estates Assembly in the first elections in July 1849, but he did not accept the mandate.

Fonts

  • Fight and victory of a lawyer from the Rhineland-Palatinate for his status and his professional rights against the royal family. Bayer. State authority, on the occasion of a disciplinary matter; in six official files . Mannheim: Zeiler, 1844

literature

  • Werner Marx: The Palatinate MPs in the Bavarian State Parliament . Diss. Munich 1954
  • Gerhard Nestler: Carl Alexander Spatz, Georg Jakob Stockinger and Friedrich Justus Willich. Three Frankenthal lawyers and the revolution of 1848/49 , in: Frankenthal then and now . 1998, pp. 36-43

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Namesake Friedrich Justus Willich (1745–1827), lawyer. 1808, 1818 editor of legal writings by Justus Claproth , see DNB
personal data
SURNAME Willich, Friedrich Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1853
Place of death Frankenthal (Palatinate)