Goswin Krackrügge

Goswin Krackrügge. Woodcut 1851

Goswin Friedrich Arnold Leopold Krackrügge (born  September 26, 1803 in Soest , †  November 18, 1881 in Kassel ) was a German rope merchant, merchant and journalist . He was a member of the Prussian National Assembly and the Second Prussian Chamber .

Life

Goswin Krackrügge was the son of the domain inspector Johann Caspar Heinrich Krackrügge († 1817 in Soest) and of Johanna Maria Catharina Roemer. His sister Theodora Helene Caroline Wilhelmine Friedericke Krackrügge (* 1799; † 1836) was married to the doctor Hermann Becker (* 1794; † 1824), the father of the well-known progressive politician and Lord Mayor Hermann Heinrich Becker . He was baptized on October 19, 1803 in the Sankt-Petri Church in Soest.

In August 1820 he joined the 4th Artillery Brigade in Münster . During the three years of service to which he had committed himself, he was also charged and convicted of various offenses, such as B. because of a brawl or because he sold books. In 1826 he was secretary to Mayor Scourge in Witten , then in Bochum . Between 1833 and 1836 he was the administrative secretary of the "Central Charity" in Elberfeld . Here he published an address book for the benefit of the poor. He also worked as an editor for the newspaper "Fremd-Blatt und Daily Anzeiger" in Elberfeld.

His first brochure Murder of Soul and Body, perpetrated on the unfortunate foundling Kaspar Hauser was dominated by public speculation about the alleged murder of Kaspar Hauser . In good faith, Krackrügge referred to the briefly sensational letter from a Dr. Hartmann, who wanted to have spoken to the dying Hauser. The letter, however, was bogus and in fact came from Adolf Bäuerle , the editor of the Wiener Theaterzeitung .

Around 1837 he settled in Schlotheim as a merchant for rope goods, employed a hundred workers, weavers , rope makers and trimmers and married. In Schlottheim, Krackrügge got into a legal dispute with the court director Gottfried Beringer , who wrote in a letter to his government "that he personally hated Krackrügge from the bottom of his heart and that he had allowed his private hatred to influence his official duties." shows the character of the patrimonial court system of that time, in which the judge, lawyer, witness and executor were often one person. This led to the fact that he was refused the branch in Schlotheim and he suffered great financial damage. After his apartment was also ransacked, without the police, who were subordinate to the court director Beringer, intervening, he went to Neunheilingen in the Langensalza district and then to Erfurt . There he received citizenship on April 15, 1845. He joined the “Bürger-Hülfs-Verein” founded in 1836, which had only 22 members, became its head and soon the association had more than 500 members. In order to influence public opinion outside of the association, Krackrügge also wrote articles for the newspaper "Erfurter Stadt- und Landbote" published by Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch . Krackrügge waged a constant battle with the censors and exhausted all legal means. On November 29, 1845, a message appeared in the Erfurt City and Country Messenger : “???! There is talk of a terrible imprisonment of a girl who belongs to a wealthy family of a higher class and asks for clarification. “This girl was Pauline von Ehrenburg, who was imprisoned by her birth parents for eight years. In addition to numerous articles, in 1846 Krackrügge also published the work Maria Hauser or the horrible assassination attempt in Erfurt on this case . The child's father led a lawsuit against Krackrügge, in which Krackrügge was sentenced to four months in prison for his publications. On March 1, 1846, Krackrügge was elected city councilor. So that he could not take up his office, an attempt was made to withdraw his citizenship. He held support from 300 citizens of the city who supported "The Free Representative of Truth and Justice". Although the royal government denied the city council's request to withdraw citizenship, the city council failed to comply. Almost at the same time, Krackrügge was sentenced in the first instance in the Ehrenberg trial to six months in prison, against which Ehrenberg lodged a complaint. He was also sued by a brother-in-law of Ehrenberg, who had also felt insulted in his honor, and on December 13, 1846, the house in Krackrügge was destroyed by fire. On November 24, 1847, Goswin Krackrügge had to start his prison sentence in Lichtenberg .

On March 14, 1848 “the people's rage turned against the government councilor v. Ehrenberg and destroyed a large part of his property ”. Ehrenberg then issued a statement in which he withdrew all charges against Krackrügge, but at the same time insisted that he was "not guilty of his daughter". Krackrügge refused this "apology". He was released from prison on March 23, 1848 and returned to his hometown of Erfurt, celebrated. The whole story of this trial against Krackrügge can be described with the modern term mobbing .

On May 8, 1848, Krackrügge was elected as a deputy of the Prussian National Assembly in the first ballot. In the article “The honor of truth” in his newspaper “Der Deutsche Stadt- und Landbote” he declared: “The people of Berlin and their revolution [...] were not excluded, misunderstood and suspected in the province of Saxony , Erfurt: man has the people agitators, its fight on 18./19. March called a riot . That is a grave sin against the revolution and its fighters, the people of Berlin. To my shame I must confess that I myself came here with a bad opinion of the barricades, of […] their defenders […] and the leaders of the Berlin people […]. I was wrong […] The cheap press […] was wrong. I feel compelled in my conscience to atone for my injustice through this public confession. […] Therefore […] I consider myself with my mandate standing on the ground of the revolution, in guilty reverence for it and for its fighters, the generous people of Berlin. ”His first motion in the Berlin assembly on June 6, 1848 occupied with claims for reparation from two citizens of Erfurt who were innocently shot by the 31st regiment there on March 14, 1848. An "application for a declaration by primary school teachers for civil servants and delivery of a corresponding salary" also angered the editors. Krackrügge always agrees with the left in the Prussian National Assembly. He published his first article for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung by Karl Marx on July 23, 1848. Krackrügge also worked for Erfurt during his Berlin mandate. He helped to replace the hated meal and slaughter tax with the class tax , so that the poor population was no longer burdened so heavily by the direct tax . After the Brandenburg government was installed by a coup, Krackrügge participated in the defense of the republic together with Carl d'Ester , Count Eduard von Reichenbach , Hexamer and other left-wing MPs.

“Fellow citizens! The fatherland is in danger! Against the, on the 2nd d. With the will of the assembly expressed almost unanimously, the Brandenburg Ministry was appointed today and began its effectiveness with a coup d'état . The meeting of the people's representatives is to be adjourned in order to meet later in another place. Fellow citizens! The National Assembly, called to represent your will, can neither be adjourned, postponed, nor dissolved. We are determined to use all means at our disposal to vigorously oppose such acts of violence. Trust in us, be united in maintaining the freedom you have won, and remember that prudent courage overcomes any danger. Berlin, November 9th, 1848. Krackrügge, member of the district of Erfurt, in agreement with 231 other members "

- The German city and country messenger. Evening sheet, November 11, 1848

Krackrügge was one of the proponents of tax denial and was acquitted in a court case in 1850. In November 1850 Krackrügge received the leaflet German Men and Prussian Subjects , sent for distribution by Carl Wunibald Otto and Alexander Wolle , which played a role in the Cologne communist trial.

A profound event in his life was the murder of his son Johann Goswin Krackrügge (* April 8, 1838, † July 25, 1853). His boy was the victim of a robbery, which was widely discussed in public outside of Erfurt. He was attacked, robbed and stabbed on the way to his grandmother in Schlotheim. The killer was executed.

On May 29, 1860, he married Pauline Gottschalk in the Sankt-Petri-Kirche in Soest.

In 1856 Krackrügge founded the "Association for the Procurement of Cheap Groceries" in Erfurt. He was watched all the time by the Erfurt government. Presumably he had lost track of the management of the consumer cooperative and was punished in November 1869 with two years in prison for "knowingly wrong use of false documents in two cases". In 1870 he lived in Berlin. In 1873 he left Erfurt and settled in Kassel, where he died in 1881.

Characteristics

"First name: Goswin. Last name: Krackrügge. Trade: merchant. Place of birth: Soest. Place of residence: Erfurt. Religion: Protestant. Age: 44 years. Size: 5 feet 7 inches. Hair: black. Forehead: protruding. Eyebrows: dark. Eyes: brown. Nose: common. Mouth: the same. Beard: black and dark. Teeth: healthy. Chin: oval. Face color: pale. Shape: medium. Language: German. Special features: none. "

- Wanted poster from June 26, 1847

Works

• Murder of soul and body, perpetrated on the unfortunate foundling Kaspar Hauser . Elberfeld 1834.
• Rüttger Brüning (ed.). Official address book for Rhineland-Westphalia . Arrangement by the administrative secretary Goswin Krackrügge. 3 parts. Schönian, Elberfeld 1834.
• Maria Hauser or the terrible assassination attempt in Erfurt . Jurany, Leipzig 1846.
• The German city and country messenger . Edited by Goswin Krackrügge. January 1, 1847 to November 24, 1848, Eisenberg.
• Water regulation, according to which all mills above, in and below the city of Erfurt are to be based on old traditions and with all interested parties prior knowledge and approval, what includes not only the water office and its mills Jura, but also all inflows and outflows of the Water pipeline throughout the city […] De Anno 1718 . Ohlenroth, Erfurt 1847.
• Actual representation of the investigation procedure which is initiated by the Wohllöbl magistrate because of the disfranchisement of citizenship at the request of a part of the town councilors Krackrügge. I. Dedicated to the fourteen senior citizens of the local community . Erfurt 1846.
• Application by Member of Parliament Krackrügge for the lifting of the magazine levy on the landowners of 35 localities in the province of Erfurt for the maintenance of the garrison in the city of Erfurt and for assuming the war debts of these localities on the national debt . Better, Berlin 1848.
• High National Assembly! Nearby we are handing over to a high national assembly through our deputy Krackrügge a copy of the petition that we have submitted today to the State Ministry [...] to restore a strong craftsman class [...] Erfurt, on June 4, 1848. The board members and Deputies of the guilds at Erfurt . Besser, Erfurt 1848.
• The Ehrenberg-Krackrügge trial. Represented from beginning to end, along with the most interesting testimonies related to it. In addition to an appendix: Krackrügge's triumphal procession . In Komm.Körner, Erfurt 1848.
• To my constituents. Self-published 1848 Five issues .
• Post-Journal with occasional news about the effectiveness of the German post-official associations . Editor: Julius Oschatz and Goswin Krackrügge. Self-published, Erfurt 1848–1849.
• New Erfurt Newspaper . Erfurt 1849/50. Ed. Goswin Krackrügge, No. 1–139.
• Annulment complaint by the businessman Goswin Krackrügge zu Erfurt against the knowledge of the royal jury court there on August 26, 1850 for insulting military personnel in relation to their service . Erfurt 1850.

Archival material

• Private files from Goswin Krackrügge zu Erfurt regarding minutes of the National Assembly in Berlin 1848 Digital collections of the University of Cologne .
• Erfurt City Archives : Archives 1-1 / 16m- 10 files relating to the merchant Krackrügge.
• Erfurt City Archives: Archives 1-1 / 1e- 14 Akta concerning the withdrawal of citizenship against the pp. Cracked jugs.
• Stadtarchiv Erfurt: Archivgut 1-1 / 1e- 13 Akta concerning the election of the merchant Krackrügge as city councilor and his refused admission to the board.
• Stadtarchiv Erfurt: Archivgut 1-1 / 16-30 A package of older investigation files against the later known businessman Krackrügge (6 folders).
• Erfurt City Archives: Archives 1-1 / 16l- 31 Akta re. Recording of pp. Krackrügge among the local traders.
• Goswin Krackrügge to Johann Friedrich Benzenberg . Two letters in 1843. Heinrich Heine Institute , Düsseldorf.
• Goswin Krackrügge to Forester. Letter of October 12, 1848. Art collections of the Veste Coburg. Signature: V, 1179.
• Goswin Krackrügge to Ludwig Schaller . Letter from June 25, 1849. University and State Library, Bonn.

literature

• Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Ehrenberg: attack and judgment. Actual representation of my fiscal process against the rope merchant and merchant Goswin Krackrügge zu Erfurt . Loes, Erfurt 1847.
• Collected sheets in matters of the retired government councilor von Ehrenberg and the merchant Krackrügge in Erfurt . Rudolstadt 1847.
• F. Schrader: Goswin Krackrügge and his trial. A historical account . Luden, Jena 1848 MDZ .
• Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the meeting of the third vol., Berlin 1848 books.google.de, appointed to agree the meeting on the agreement of the Prussian state constitution .
• Report of the Central Department on the draft law due to the obligation of the municipalities to compensate for the damage caused by public crowds, as well as on the application made by the Member of Parliament Krackrügge of Erfurt for the enactment of such a law. Berlin, August 15, 1848. Rapporteur: Member of Parliament Jungbluth . Berlin 1848.
• Friedrich Koch: Open letter to the rope merchant Hern. Cracked jugs . 1st and 2nd impression, Körner, Erfurt 1848.
• Friedrich Koch: Second open letter to Krackrügge . 1st to 4th ed., Körner, Erfurt 1848.
• Friedrich Koch: Third open letter to Krackrügge. A response to its 5 first reports to its constituents . Körner, Erfurt 1848.
• Friedrich Koch: The three open letters to Krackrügge . New edition, Körner, Erfurt 1849
• C. Dorn: The trial of the 42 members of the Prussian National Assembly who refused to pay taxes . J. Gerhard, Berlin 1850 books.google.de .
• Pinckert (ed.): Prosecution against the manual worker Heinrich Andreas Bornberg from Kutzleben for the murder of the 15½-year-old son of the merchant Goswin Krackrügge here, together with some communications from the father of the slain about his personality and the father's position in the act . Villaret, Erfurt 1854.
• Friedrich Schubart: Erfurt in 1848. People's movement and loyalty to Prussia. Described from my own experiences and authentic reports . 2nd considerable presumed edition. In commission of the bookstore von Klinghammer, Langensalza 1858 books.google.de .
• The indictment before the jury in Erfurt against the handworker Eckner, house painter Schmidt, accountant Bang and businessman Goswin Krackrügge zu Erfurt for counterfeiting or knowingly perjury is being negotiated in the days from 12th to 15th. November 1869 . Bartholomäus, Erfurt 1870.
• Johannes Biereye: Erfurt in its famous personalities . Erfurt 1937.
• Krackrügge, Goswin . In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Lexicon of politics, press and journalism . Continued by Eugen Kuri. Second volume. A. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 698.
• Herbert Peters: Erfurt in 1848 . (phil. diss., Berlin 1966)
• Herbert Peters: Karl Marx, the 'Neue Rheinische Zeitung' and Erfurt in the revolution of 1848/49 . In: Contributions to the history of Thuringia . Vol. 2, Erfurt 1970.
• Herbert Peters: Goswin Krackrügge . In: Karl Obermann (Ed.): Men of the Revolution of 1848 . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 277-296.
• Herbert Peters: The Prussian Province of Saxony in the Revolution 1848/49. (Phil.-Diss. B, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 1978)
• The League of Communists. Documents and materials. 1849-1851 . Vol. 2. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 316, 476, 714, 716.
• Herbert Peters: The effect of the 'Neue Rheinische Zeitung' on the democratic press of the Prussian province of Saxony 1848/49 . In: Marx-Engels-Yearbook 7 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1984, pp. 106-140. Digitized
• Willibald Gutsche (ed.): History of the city of Erfurt . Hermann Böhlaus Erben, Weimar 1986 ISBN 3-7400-0000-7 , pp. 239, 242, 244-248, 249, 251-252, 254, 266-267.
• Falk Burkhardt: Chronicle and bibliography on the revolution of 1848/49 in Thuringia . State Center for Political Education, Erfurt 1998 ISBN 3-931426-24-6 , p. 272 ​​ff.

Web links

• Krackrügge : In: Allgemeine Realencyclopädie or Conversationslexicon for Catholic Germany. Supplementary volumes . Edited by Wilhelm Binder. Regensburg 1849, pp. 867-869. books.google.de .
• Cracked jugs . In: The large conversation lexicon for the educated stands. Fourth supplement volume . Edited by Joseph Meyer . Hildburghausen 1854, pp. 330-331. books.google.de .
• Wermuth , Stieber : The Communist Conspiracies of the 19th Century , Berlin 1854, p. 68 f. books.google.de .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baptism entry according to information from the Soest City Archives. “Day and hour of birth: September 26, 1803, 6 o'clock in the evening, baptism day: October 19, 1803, parents: Accise Inspector H. Joh. Caspar Krakrügge from Schwerte, and Johanna Maria Catharina Roemer from Hamm, born, child : Goswien Friederich Arnold Leopold, godparents: Mr. Preacher Schmölder, Mr. Doctor Arnold Müller, Mr. Goswien Plange here himself, and the H. Medicinal Assessor Justus Friederich Uhlendorff from Hamm. "
2. ↑ F. Schrader, p. 1 erroneously writes “16. September 1804 "and on page 46:" ... that I (born on September 26, 1804). "
3. ↑ Willibald Gutsche, p. 267.
4. ^ Heinrich Heffter:  Becker, Hermann Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 716 ( digitized version ).
5. ↑ family search.com
6. ↑ Possible misprint in F. Schrader, otherwise see 7th Artillery Brigade
7. ↑ F. Schrader, pp. 1-3.
8. ^ Official address book for Rhineland-Westphalia .
9. ↑ F. Schrader, p. 6 ff. Berthold Weckmann: Kaspar Hauser. The story and its stories . Würzburg 1993, p. 185 f
10. ↑ The last name of his first wife was Kühn . (F. Schrader, p. 11.)
11. ↑ F. Schrader, p. 12.
12. ↑ F. Schrader, p. 17.
13. ^ This newspaper was published from January 17, 1844 to September 29, 1847.
14. ↑ F. Schrader, p. 26.
15. ^ Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Ehrenberg: Attack and judgment. Actual representation of my fiscal process against the rope merchant and merchant Goswin Krackrügge zu Erfurt .
16. ↑ Willibald Gutsche, p. 242.
17. ↑ F. Schrader, p. 40.
18. ↑ F. Schrader, p. 42.
19. ↑ Herbert Peters (1970), p. 281.
20. ^ The German city and country messenger. No. 81, 1848 quoted from Herbert Peters (1970), p. 281 f.
21. ↑ Herbert Perters (1970), p. 282.
22. ↑ Herbert Peters (1966), p. 139.
23. ↑ Herbert Peters (1970), p. 286.
24. ↑ “When the time comes, then we want to stand and fall for the republic.” (Letter from Krackrügge and others, quoted from Herbert Peters (1970), p. 289, footnote 73.)
25. ↑ The German city and country messenger. Evening sheet . No. 230 of November 11, 1848. Facsimile in: Illustrated History of the German Revolution 1848/49 . 2. through Edition Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1973, p. 235.
26. ↑ C. Dorn: The trial of the 42 tax-refusing members of the Prussian National Assembly .
27. ^ Reprinted in Der Bund der Kommunisten , pp. 312–315.
28. ^ Karl Bittel : The Communist Trial in Cologne 1852 in the mirror of the contemporary press . Berlin 1955, pp. 129-130.
29. ^ Memorial stone in Schlotheim
30. ^ Bavarian landlady of August 13, 1853, No. 194.
31. ↑ Ingo Fiedler (ed.): History of the city of Schlotheim in Thuringia: from the beginnings to the middle of the 19th century . City of Schlotheim, P & R Verlag, Dortmund 2004, ISBN 3-930504-04-9
32. ^ Didaskalia. Leaves for mind, spirit and publicity . No. 103 of April 29, 1854
33. ↑ Pinckert (Ed.): Prosecution against the manual worker Heinrich Andreas Bornberg from Kutzleben for the murder of the 15½-year-old son of the merchant Goswin Krackrügge here, together with some communications from the father of the slain about his personality and the father's position in the act .
34. ↑ familysearch.org
35. ↑ Willibald Gutsche, p. 267.
36. ↑ The indictment before the jury in Erfurt against the handworker Eckner, house painter Schmidt, accountant Bang and businessman Goswin Krackrügge in Erfurt for counterfeiting or knowingly perjury was negotiated in the days from 12-15. November 1869 .
37. ↑ Krackrugge, G. In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1870, part 1, p. 385.
38. ↑ Allgemeine Anzeiger und Nationalzeitung der Deutschen , Gotha 1847, p. 2292.
39. ↑ Address book of the Wuppertal districts for the year 1834 , excerpts from the photomechanical reprint from Mayor Rüttger Brüning's official address book for Rhineland-Westphalia for the benefit of poor sick people , edited by Goswin Krackrügge, Elberfeld 1834. Edited and edited by Florian Speer on behalf of the Bergisches Geschichtsvereins Abt. Wuppertal eV, with information from the editor and an introductory article by Uwe Eckardt. Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 3-8334-6169-1 ( contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal  42)
40. ^ General dictionary of books