Fritz Rödiger

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Fritz Rödiger (born March 18, 1824 in Brambach ; † November 25, 1909 in Worben ) was a German revolutionary.

Life

Rödiger was born in Vogtland and attended elementary school in Brambach and, from 1837, the grammar school in Plauen . As an agricultural student, Rödiger worked at the Erlbach manor in 1841/42 before he began studying law in 1843. During his studies in Jena in 1843 he became a member of the Burschenschaft in the Burgkeller ; he was also a member of the fraternity on the bear and in 1845 co-founder of the fraternity of Teutonia Jena . As a law student, he belonged, like the future Mayor of Adorf, Carl Gottlob Todt, to the revolutionaries of 1848/49. From January 1849 Fritz Rödiger published the newspaper Die Brille (The State and House Glasses). In retrospect it says at that time: From Plauen the waves hit the upper Vogtland. And our Schloßfritz soon joined the public speakers Heubner in Plauen, Todt and Blankmeister in Adorf [...]. Armed in speech and counter-speech, sometimes tough and traditionally confronting his opponent in a traditional Vogtland style, the "Schloßfritz" soon made a name for himself everywhere. [...] To this end, on May 6, 1849, in a meeting of the Liberals in Adorf, after the dissolution of the state parliament, the flight of the king and his ministers and the establishment of a provisional government, he called for an armed march with a penetrating voice towards Dresden. [...] The uprising in Dresden was crushed on May 10th. And 14 days later, if only for a short time, 150 Prussian hunters moved into Adorf.

After the failure of the revolution, he was imprisoned in the Adorfer Fronveste in Johannisstrasse in 1849 and 1850 and was u. a. Sentenced to 12 years and one month in prison for publishing a revolutionary magazine called “Die Staats- und Hausbrille”. Shortly before being transferred to the same place, on the night of July 28, 1851, he managed to escape together with the Adorf revolutionary Karl Ludwig Ferdinand Blanckmeister , which eventually led him to Switzerland. After staying in Zurich, he settled in Solothurn and finally in Biel , where he lived as a landowner, culture and fountain engineer and died in 1909 after a fulfilled life.

In the magazine " Die Gartenlaube " Fritz Rödiger wrote a long memory report of the time of his imprisonment in Adorf under the title: From my prison and escape life in 1874 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brambacher Heimatbuch, 1931
  2. ↑ From my prison and escape life. Also an anniversary memory from Fritz Rödiger.
personal data
SURNAME Rödiger, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Brambach
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1909
Place of death Advertised