Friedrich Martiny

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peter Martiny (born August 10, 1819 in Liebsen, Sagan district in Lower Silesia , † April 7, 1897 in Danzig ) was a German lawyer , judge and attorney . He was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from May 1848 to May 1849 and a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1861 to 1862 .

Life

Martiny was born the son of a royal Prussian lieutenant and landowner . From 1838 he studied law at the universities in Breslau and Heidelberg . Until 1845 he was a trainee lawyer and assessor at the higher court in Frankfurt an der Oder . From 1845 to 1847 Martiny was the representative of the land and city judge in Putzig and from 1847 to 1849 he was himself the land and city judge in Friedland .

As such, he was elected as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in constituency 21, which included the district of Schlochau in the province of Prussia . From May 18, 1848 he was listed as a member of parliament in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt . He joined the extreme left, the March Association , and voted in votes with the Donnersberg parliamentary group . When Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia was elected Emperor of the Germans, he voted against the proposal. There is no information about his participation in committees. Since September 1848 he was working as an editor of the Neue Deutsche Zeitung in Frankfurt am Main . Until May 30, 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. In June 1849 Martiny was briefly a member of the rump parliament , which met in Stuttgart .

In 1849 Martiny was appointed district judge in Friedland. From May to June 1849 he took part in the Palatinate uprising , as envoy of the Palatinate National Defense Committee and the provisional Palatinate government in Karlsruhe . In June 1849 he was secretary in the Club of Resolute Progress in Karlsruhe. From December 1849 he was charged with high treason for 19 months in Görlitz and Konitz in custody taken. It was not until 1851 that he was acquitted by the jury in Konitz.

From 1851 to 1852 Martiny was appointed district judge in Marienwerder and in 1852 district judge in the East Prussian Kaukehmen . In the same year, until 1868, he settled there as a lawyer. In 1861 he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in the constituency of Memel-Heydekrug for the German Progressive Party . Strongly influenced by the ideas of Ferdinand Lassalle , he could not win any supporters in his party for his policy. Thereupon he resigned his mandate on February 10, 1862. Since 1863 he was an authorized representative of the General German Workers' Association in East Prussia .

From 1868 until his death, Martiny worked as a lawyer and notary in Danzig and received the title of judicial councilor . From 1879 he was chairman of the West Prussian Bar Association in Danzig and chaired the Danzig Honorary Council of Lawyers. Friedrich Martiny died on April 7, 1897, at the age of 77 in Danzig.

literature

  • Alexander Meyer: Martiny, Friedrich. In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 2, page 223, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1898. ( digitized )

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SURNAME Martiny, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martiny, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Prussian House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Liebsen, Sagan County
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1897
Place of death Danzig