Georg Günther (politician)

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Johann Georg Günther (1808–1872)

Johann Georg Günther (born April 29, 1808 in Penig ; † January 30, 1872 in Westend ) was a German journalist , politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Live and act

Georg Günther was born in 1808. In the 1830s he befriended Robert Blum in Leipzig , whose marriage to his sister Eugenie he promoted in 1840 .

He became a member of Blum's literary association , which he left due to conflicts with the authorities. In 1839 he became an honorary member of the Old Leipzig Burschenschaft / Kochei . In 1842 he became editor of the Sächsische Vaterlandsblätter founded by Blum and also worked on Blum's state encyclopedia . After the outbreak of the March Revolution , Günther became politically active as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and editor of the German Reichstag newspaper in Frankfurt.

After a brief exile in Switzerland, he emigrated in 1851 to the ultimate failure of the March survey in the United States , but returned in 1871 back to Germany.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 199-200.
  • Peter Reichel: Robert Blum. A German revolutionary 1807–1848. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-36136-8 , pp. 22, 30, 36, 45, 69, 105-106, 127, 129.
  • T. Tonndorf: The Saxon members of the Frankfurt Pre- and National Assembly. Diss. Dresden 1993, pp. 178-179.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Reichel: Robert Blum. A German revolutionary 1807–1848 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, pp. 22, 30, 36, 45, 69,105f. 127, 129.
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günther, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Penig
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1872
Place of death West end