Gottlieb Friedrich Krauss

Title page of the handbook for lithographers and lithographers by Gottlieb Friedrich Krauss and Franz Malté, 1853

Gottlieb Friedrich Krauss (born September 3, 1815 in Ditzingen , † February 27, 1895 in Stuttgart ) was a German lithographer and representative of the labor movement in Stuttgart.

Life

Krauss was born as the son of the landowner Gottlieb Friedrich Krauss and his wife Dorothea, b. Siegle, a daughter of the castle miller Johannes Siegle, was born in Ditzingen. After attending primary school, he was accepted into Karl Ebner's art institute in Stuttgart, where he learned lithography. For a while he was resident in Switzerland. It was there that he met his first wife Elisabetha Marti, whom he married in Bern in 1841 . From the marriage he had a daughter Anna. His wife Elisabetha died in Stuttgart in 1856. Three years later Krauss married Barbara Däschler from Langen-Altheim for the second time. This marriage resulted in two children, including the son Georg Friedrich.

In 1853 Krauss published a handbook for lithographers and lithographers together with Franz Malté. In 1859 he settled in Stuttgart, where he opened his own photographic and lithographic institute at Ludwigstrasse 22. Later he was a varnish manufacturer.

Political activity and processes

In 1845 Krauss was one of the founders of the German Catholic community in Stuttgart and was elected to the board. Together with other parishioners, he took part in the founding of the educational association for workers in early 1848 , for which he took part in the Democratic Congress in Frankfurt am Main in the week of Pentecost of the same year . Even if the founding of a democratic district association in Stuttgart was prevented by the government, Krauss continued to be involved in the labor movement and in the people's association, which formed one of the most important organizations of the democrats during the revolution. During the imperial constitution campaign he was in close contact with the insurgents in Baden, namely Johann Philipp Becker . While traveling through Baden, Württemberg and Switzerland, he made inquiries about the attitude of the population and recruited volunteers for the Baden revolutionary army. When he directed violent attacks against the Stuttgart March Ministry in the democratic newspaper Die Sonne on June 17, 1849, he was charged with "insulting the honor of the state government" before the jury court in Esslingen , but by the jury at the hearing on January 31, 1850 acquitted. The trial against Krauss was the first political trial to be heard by a jury in Württemberg . The speech of his defense counsel Adolph Gottlieb Ferdinand Schoder appeared in print in the same year in the publishing house of Karl Göpel in Stuttgart.

In February 1850 Krauss helped Gustav Adolph Rösler, a member of the Paulskirchen, imprisoned at Hohenasperg Fortress, to escape. He was later indicted again for "calling for high treason against Baden" and was imprisoned on January 18, 1851 as a remand prisoner on the Hohenasperg and later in Ludwigsburg . On August 16, 1851, he was also acquitted in this process. However, on October 2, 1853, he was sentenced again to six weeks' imprisonment on the Hohenasperg for “physical injury to honor”.

Krauss also stood up for the interests of the workers in the following years. In 1863 he was again one of the founders of the workers' education association in Stuttgart and was elected chairman. From 1867 to 1869 he was a member of the supervisory board of the consumer association that used rooms in his house. Since the 1870s he has increasingly withdrawn into private life. He died in Stuttgart in February 1895. The lithographic institute was continued by his son Georg Friedrich.

Works

(with Franz Malté) Handbook for lithographers and lithographers, containing a precise description of the procedure for all manners that have been used up to now ... " . Stuttgart 1853 ( online )

literature

Elisabeth Schmittner, Manfred HW Köhler: My thanks for life. The daring escape of the member of the Frankfurt National Assembly Gustav Adolf Rösler vom Hohenasperg in February 1850 . In: Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte 65 (2006), pp. 327–330

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Ulrich Simon: Mörike in portraits of his time. An iconography (= publications of the Stuttgart City Archives 97). Stuttgart 2004, p. 76.
^ Eduard Mörike: Works and Letters . Historical-critical complete edition, Volume 18, Letters 1864–1867. Edited by Regina Cerfontaine and Hans-Ulrich Simon. Stuttgart 1967, p. 292.
↑ Defense Speech of the Right Cons. A. Schoder in Stuttgart before the jury in Eßlingen in charges against the lithographer Friedrich Krauss von Ditzingen, OA Leonberg, for insulting the honor of the state government (the March Ministry) on the occasion of the demolition of the National Assembly . Stuttgart 1850 ( online ).
↑ Elisabeth Schmittner, Manfred HW Köhler: My thanks for life. The daring escape of the member of the Frankfurt National Assembly Gustav Adolf Rösler vom Hohenasperg in February 1850 . In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 65 (2006), p. 314.

personal data
SURNAME	Krauss, Gottlieb Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lithographer and representative of the labor movement
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ditzingen
DATE OF DEATH	February 27, 1895
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Hans-Ulrich Simon: Mörike in portraits of his time. An iconography (= publications of the Stuttgart City Archives 97). Stuttgart 2004, p. 76.

[2] Eduard Mörike: Works and Letters . Historical-critical complete edition, Volume 18, Letters 1864–1867. Edited by Regina Cerfontaine and Hans-Ulrich Simon. Stuttgart 1967, p. 292.

[3] Defense Speech of the Right Cons. A. Schoder in Stuttgart before the jury in Eßlingen in charges against the lithographer Friedrich Krauss von Ditzingen, OA Leonberg, for insulting the honor of the state government (the March Ministry) on the occasion of the demolition of the National Assembly . Stuttgart 1850 ( online ).

[4] Elisabeth Schmittner, Manfred HW Köhler: My thanks for life. The daring escape of the member of the Frankfurt National Assembly Gustav Adolf Rösler vom Hohenasperg in February 1850 . In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 65 (2006), p. 314.