Friedrich Siegmund Jucho

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Friedrich Siegmund Jucho

Friedrich Siegmund Jucho (born November 4, 1805 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 24, 1884 ibid) was a German lawyer , notary , secret councilor , lawyer and politician . In 1848 he was a member of the National Assembly in the Paulskirche as a member of the Free City of Frankfurt .

origin

Jucho was the son of the Frankfurt notary Martin Jucho. His mother came from Wetzlar and was the daughter of a notary. His first marriage was to Charlotte Susanne Roediger (1821–1842), daughter of the Offenbach lawyer, consistorial councilor and notary, Conrad Roediger, and his second marriage to her half-sister Elise Catharina Roediger (1814–1873). His son was also a lawyer and notary in Frankfurt. Jucho was a nephew of the Frankfurt politician Friedrich Siegmund Feyerlein , who in 1813 had made a contribution to the restoration of the Free City of Frankfurt.

life and work

After attending the municipal high school in Frankfurt, Jucho studied law in Halle from 1823 , where he was expelled from a fraternity , however, from 1824 in Jena and finally from 1826 in Gießen , where he became a Dr. iur. received his doctorate. In the same year he established himself as a lawyer in Frankfurt, and from 1829 also as a notary. During his studies he became a member of the old Halle fraternity in 1823 , of the Jena fraternity in 1824 and of the old Gießen fraternity of Germania in 1826 .

Jucho was one of the leaders of the liberal movement in Frankfurt. He was an employee of the Rhein- und Mainzeitung , member of the central committee of the Press and Fatherland Association and took part in the Hambach Festival in 1832 . In the same year he was sentenced to a fine for taking part in illegal association meetings to discuss the measures taken by the Bundestag against freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. He was arrested in 1834 after a house search and held in detention for four years, first in the Konstablerwache in Frankfurt, then at the fortress Hartenberg near Mainz, accused of distributing forbidden documents and helping participants in the Frankfurt Wachensturm to escape .

After a process lasting several years, he was sentenced in 1838 to six months' imprisonment and the disqualification of a notary for high treason. On May 19, 1839, a second instance ( Lübeck Higher Appeal Court ) was acquitted in parts. The previous detention was partly counted as a punishment, and the dismissal was lifted. He was released on May 25, 1839. From 1840 he practiced again as a lawyer in Frankfurt, where he took part in actions of the pre-March movement in 1846/47 and was a member of the Hallgarten circle around Johann Adam von Itzstein . After the outbreak of the March Revolution in March 1848 he was secretary of the Frankfurt citizens' assembly and participant in the Heidelberg assembly . He was then a member of the Frankfurt Pre-Parliament , the minutes of which he published, and a member of the Fifties Committee for the preparation of the elections to the Frankfurt National Assembly.

In the elections on April 28, 1848, Jucho received 6,650 of the 8,615 votes and was sent as a member of the Free City of Frankfurt to the German National Assembly, of which he was a member from May 18, 1848 until the end of the National Assembly in Frankfurt on May 30, 1849. He belonged to the Westendhall faction , the left-wing center, and later to the Central March Association . He was the secretary of the National Assembly, a member of the revision commission on the treaties of the Committee of Fifties and a member of the deputation that brought the Austrian Archduke Johann the news of the election as Reichsverweser . After the dissolution of the National Assembly, Jucho took part in the Gotha Assembly .

Friedrich Siegmund Jucho, the administrator of the National Assembly's estate, on the run. Caricature around the turn of the year 1849/1850

Jucho came into conflict with the German Confederation after the end of the Paulskirche parliament . He had taken the archives of the National Assembly into safekeeping with the original of the constitutional document . The city authorities took the archive from him by force in 1852, but he brought the constitutional charter to safety in England in good time. For this he was taken to court, but acquitted by the Lübeck Higher Appeal Court . In 1870 Jucho sent the original of the constitution to Eduard von Simson , President of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation , who later handed it over to the archives of the German Reichstag .

Until the annexation of the Free City of Frankfurt by Prussia in 1866, Jucho was also active in Frankfurt politics. In 1848/49 he was a member of the Constituent Assembly ( Konstituante ), from 1850 to 1865 of the Legislative Assembly and from 1857 of the Permanent Citizens' Representation . Jucho advocated a voluntary annexation of Frankfurt to Prussia, but withdrew from politics after the violent conquest and annexation of the Free City .

After the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, he was one of the founders of the National Liberal Association around Johannes Miquel . In 1872 he became chairman of the German Notary Association.

Jucho died in Frankfurt on August 24, 1884. His estate is kept in various archives, such as the Frankfurt City Archives , the University Library and the Federal Archives . A street in Frankfurt's Ostend district was named after Jucho .

Publications

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Intelligence Journal of the Free City of Frankfurt , No. 97, November 19, 1805
  2. ↑ Hessian Family Studies / Volume 01 / Issue 02-03 / 0061-0062
  3. ^ The "Black Book" of the federal central authority on revolutionary activities 1838-42
  4. ^ List of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly
personal data
SURNAME Jucho, Friedrich Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1884
Place of death Frankfurt am Main