Gottlieb Heinrich Dietz

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Gottlieb Heinrich Dietz (born December 21, 1821 in Schneeberg (Erzgebirge) , † August 20, 1849 in Mannheim ) was a German revolutionary and participant in the German Revolution of 1848/1849 .

Life

Dietz was the son of the city piper journeyman Carl Friedrich Dietz from the Erzgebirge mountain town of Schneeberg, who later ran a white goods shop in the village . His mother was the widow Christiane Sophie Zweynert geb. Kühn from Neustädtel.

After attending school, he learned the trade of a plumber and became a member of the Schneeberger gymnastics club, founded in 1847, based on the model of gymnastics father Jahn . As such, he and a gymnastics company became a member of the newly founded Schneeberg Communal Guard. When on the evening of May 5, 1849, volunteers from the Vogtland appeared in Schneeberg to spend the night and move on to the Saxon state capital Dresden the next morning , a riot broke out because no volunteers had yet been set up in the city. There was a call to march in the direction of Dresden the next morning.

A people's assembly was called at short notice in the “Goldene Sonne” inn, in which up to 600 men took part and debated verbatim. In a hurry, a Schneeberg group was set up and supported by voluntary, spontaneous donations with 30 thalers. The irregulars moved in the direction of the Saxon state capital, but only got beyond Freiberg and not in Dresden, as the situation there had fundamentally changed due to the intervention of the royal Saxon army.

Gottlieb Heinrich Dietz stayed with the revolutionaries and moved with them to Baden, where he actively participated in the Baden Revolution . But the revolution failed there too. The Baden army was dissolved and later rebuilt under Prussian leadership. Many revolutionaries managed to flee into exile, including Friedrich Engels and Friedrich Beust . However, Dietz was not so lucky. He was arrested and tried in Mannheim before a court martial with Prussian-Baden occupation. After the fall of Rastatt, the Prussian command Karl Alois Fickler had charged the brother of the Baden agitator Joseph Fickler with the defense of the accused. The courts of martial sentenced 27 revolutionaries, including Dietz, to death by shooting . Four other death sentences were also carried out in Mannheim.

Honors

Memorial in Mannheim
  • There is a memorial to Gottlieb Heinrich Dietz and the four other victims in the main cemetery in Mannheim .
  • Today the stadium in Schneeberg bears the name of Gottlieb Heinrich Dietz.

literature

  • Paul Seidel: Gottlieb Heinrich Dietz. Life and struggle of a Schneeberg revolutionary . In: Schneeberger Heimatbüchlein , Vol. 13, Schneeberg 1974, pp. 36-40.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ from L .:  Fickler, Karl Alois . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 777 f.
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Gottlieb Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietz, Heinrich Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH on December 21, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneeberg (Ore Mountains)
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1849
Place of death Mannheim