Gottlieb Link

Gottlieb Link (born October 16, 1769 in Calw ; † December 30, 1844 in Heilbronn ) was a German businessman and politician .

Life

Link was a Protestant denomination and a merchant in Heilbronn. He also had business relationships with the lion landlord Peter Heinrich Merckle in neighboring Neckarsulm , who, in addition to his restaurant, Zum golden Löwen, also ran winegrowing and trading. In 1806 he sent this Merckle a copy of the pamphlet Germany in his deep humiliation distributed by the Nuremberg bookseller Johann Philipp Palm and directed against Napoleon . Merckle, in turn, sent a copy of the text to another business partner named Schoderer in Donauwörth , who distributed what the French troops camped there learned. Merckle and Link were both arrested on August 17, 1806 and a few days later brought to the fortress of Braunau am Inn , where the French had already arrested the Nuremberg bookseller Palm and executed him on August 26.

Merckle, Link and others were sentenced to death on August 25 by a French court martial in Braunau for insurrection, high treason and assassination, but were released after the intervention of King Friedrich I of Württemberg , who was responsible for this attack on his citizens and the associated interference could not tolerate in his sovereignty. After two days, Link was extradited to Merckle on September 12th to the King of Württemberg, who imprisoned both of them for four weeks in Hohenasperg fortress . For left extradition from the French and his release, the consultant and councilor Friedrich Christoph Mayer had advocated for the family .

Some time later, Gottlieb Link became a member of the Württemberg parliament for three years. After August Schreiber resigned his mandate in 1823 , Link was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Württemberg Land estates for the city of Heilbronn in a replacement election in the same year . He entered the Chamber in 1824, was re-elected in 1826 and resigned in 1828. Friedrich Christoph Mayer was elected as his successor.

family

Left parents were the Calw official Johann Michael Link and Afra Köhlreuter. In 1805 he married the pastor's daughter Sabine Friederike Wagner (1763-1832), who brought two children from her first marriage, including a blind son. They had another daughter together, who married the businessman Ferdinand Rauch.

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 512 .
• Wilhelm Ganzhorn : Löwenwirth Peter Heinrich Merckle von Neckarsulm and merchant Gottlieb Link von Heilbronn, the comrades of the bookseller Palm von Nürnberg, who was shot on August 26, 1806 . Scheurlen, Heilbronn 1871 (full text here or here in the Google book search. Also as an essay in Wirtembergisch Franken , 8.1868 / 1870, pp. 419–445, here in the Google book search).