Friedrich Bacmeister
Friedrich Bacmeister (born August 4, 1840 in Hanover , † August 9, 1889 in New York City ) was a German soldier and seafarer. During his student days he fought over 100 lengths , an exorbitant number for the time.
Life
Friedrich Bacmeister, offspring of the Hanoverian line of the widespread Bacmeister family, was born as the son of the captain in the Royal German Legion Johann Christian Bacmeister (1786–1859) and Johanna von Finck (1802–1884). At Easter 1860 he began his law studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where he joined the Corps Hildeso-Guestphalia . In 1861 temporarily at the University of Jena , he also became active in the Corps Thuringia Jena . For the summer semester of 1862 he returned to Göttingen. In the winter semester of 1863/64, he moved to the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , where he joined the Corps Nassovia Würzburg . In order to study medicine from now on, he returned to Göttingen for the winter semester 1865/66. At that time he gained the reputation of an extraordinarily good fencer who was equally good at fencing with his right and left arm.
Bacmeister is said to have fought over 100 racket games. Due to the air raids on Jena and the bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945 , only the scales in Göttingen can be traced. According to the latest research, he fought a total of 51 racket games during his time in Göttingen without getting a throw. If you take into account the periods in Würzburg and Jena, it can actually be assumed that Bacmeister fought over 100 games.
Bacmeister went to Vienna at Easter 1866 to work as a fencing master . In the summer semester of 1866 he visited the Corps Saxonia Vienna bars . Shortly after the Battle of Königgrätz , he enlisted on July 17, 1866 for three years as a cadet in the infantry regiment "Heinrich Freiherr von Hess" No. 49 . It was in Riva del Garda (1866/67), Salzburg (1868) and Vienna (1869–1874). After his release on October 6, 1869, Bacmeister was again a guest at Saxonia Vienna, which awarded him the ribbon on October 26, 1869 .
In 1870 he joined the Prussian Army . He fought as a non-commissioned officer in the Franco-German War and received the Iron Cross . He emigrated to the United States and was hired as a seaman on a whaler in New York City . He became a helmsman on steamers . He was the only one who survived a shipwreck in the English Channel .
In 1881 he visited his sick mother in Hanover. The spinning room (the old gentlemen's senior citizens' convention there ) said goodbye to him at Hanover main station with the old student song, Bemooster Bursche I move out . Bacmeister died unmarried and childless at the age of 49. He bequeathed $ 900 in his will to the AHSC New York, which listed him as the chief helmsman residing in Boston .
literature
- Frank Huss: The man with the 100 lengths. Fritz Bacmeister - adventurer and corps student . Studentenkurier 3–4 / 2007, p. 22 f.
- Frank Huss: Fritz Bacmeister - corps student and adventurer . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 53 (2008), pp. 365-371. ISBN 978-3-87707-717-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Kösener corps lists 1910, 77/76; 149/440; 208/288.
- ^ Emil Savić : Blue-red-gold. Memories of a Viennese corp philistine . Vienna 1903.
- ^ Academic monthly books, vol. I, winter semester 1884/85, booklet 11, p. 332 f.
- ^ Academic monthly books, vol. II, summer semester 1885, booklet 14, p. 49.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bacmeister, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bacmeister, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soldier in Austria and Prussia; Sailor in the USA |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1889 |
| Place of death | New York City |