Friedrich Snell

Friedrich Heinrich Christian Salomon Snell (born August 23, 1813 in Kronberg im Taunus , † September 10, 1878 in Reichelsheim ) was a pastor and Nassau politician .

Life

Frederick Snell attended from 1828 to 1831 the school Weilburg and studied from 1831 theology at the University of Bonn and the seminar in Herborn . After graduating in 1835, he was a teacher at Will's private institute in Diez from 1835 to 1838 . From 1839 to 1840 he was administrator of the pastor's office in Laufenselden , from 1840 to 1841 vicar in Okriftel , 1841 in Nordenstadt and from 1841 to 1846 in Kloppenheim . From 1846 to 1856 he was pastor in Langenbach , from 1856 to 1864 in Hohenstein and from 1864 to 1878 in Reichelsheim.

After the March Revolution , after the resignation of Paul Weilbächer, he became a member of the Nassau Estates Assembly in a by-election in constituency 12 (Wiesbaden / Hochheim) from 1848 to 1851 . There he was a member of the Left Club . Friedrich Snell was one of the leading republicans of the March Revolution in Nassau. In 1848 he co-founded the “People's Association on the Lower Weil” in Langenbach and was a member of the “Association for the Protection of People's Rights” in Wiesbaden. Because of his political activities, a church was against him in his time as deputy disciplinary proceedings intently and he was temporarily removed from office. He was a participant in the Idstein Democrats' Congress of Radical Democrats in June 1849 and was elected to the board and the state committee. In the following high treason trial against leading participants from February 8th to 15th, 1850 before the criminal court of Wiesbaden , he and the other defendants were acquitted by the jury.

family

Friedrich Snell was the son of pastor Johann Friedrich Snell (born March 6, 1784 in Gießen; † November 2, 1839 in Laufenselden) and his wife Dorothea Louise nee Simon. The paternal grandfather was the Nassau high school supervisor and member of the state parliament Christian Wilhelm Snell .

Friedrich Snell married Susanna Elisabetha Wilhelmine nee Michel (1789–1842) in Kronberg in September 1812, the daughter of the white tanner Johann Philipp Michel and his wife Louisa Wilhelmina nee Grill.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 359-360.
• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , pp. 172-173.

Web links

• Snell, Friedrich Heinrich Christian Salomon. Hessian biography. (As of December 14, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

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