Gottlieb Schnelle

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Gottlieb Schnelle (born November 21, 1789 in Schwerin , † July 6, 1815 in Leuven ) was a German lawyer and fighter in the Wars of Liberation .

Life

Gottlieb Schnelle was a son of the commission council, city judge and mayor Johann Schnelle (around 1750 – before 1819), who became one of the first civil manor owners in Mecklenburg. The landowner, lawyer and parliamentarian Samuel Schnelle was his half-brother.

He attended the cathedral school in Schwerin until 1809 and then began studying law at the University of Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Göttingen. As a result of the gendarme affair , he left Göttingen and went to the University of Jena . Here he was one of the founders of the Corpsland Team Vandalia on January 13, 1811 and became its senior .

In January 1813 he went to Breslau as a volunteer with Gottlieb Nagel , Theodor Körner , Friedrich Christoph Förster and Carl Müller and joined the Lützow Freikorps , where he was accepted as a lieutenant and served during the Wars of Liberation until the First Peace of Paris . He witnessed Theodor Körner's death in Wöbbelin in 1813 ; then he and the Lützowern were assigned to the Kleve site on the Lower Rhine. In 1815 he fought in the 25th Line Infantry Regiment in the battle of Ligny . Here he was seriously wounded and died 20 days later in the hospital in Leuven.

He was married to Sophia Christina Margarethe, b. Parbs (born September 18, 1778 in Dömitz , † March 17, 1863 in Schwerin), the daughter of an organist. After Quick Death in 1815, she entered into a second marriage with the lawyer Theodor Ludwig August Hobein († 1831). From this second marriage came the son Eduard Hobein .

memory

The grain oak with the weapon Schnelles and the memorial plaque around 1900

Quick comrades-in-arms Gottlieb Nagel and Carl Müller kept a promise made to him and in 1816 nailed his sword (later called a sword ) to the oak on Theodor Körner's grave in Wöbbelin. Later, an initially wooden plaque with verses by Forester Dies Schwert von Eisen stark und gut was added.

This sword of iron was strong and well
carried out with iron-strong courage,
Deß name is mentioned with honor,
Gottlieb Schnelle from the Mecklenburg region.
He had accomplished three campaigns
, then he fell in a heroic battle, which was fought
at the good hour
and was called: the battle of the beautiful covenant.

The sword, which had been stolen twice, was re-attached in 1845 on the 30th anniversary of the Battle of Ligny with a commemorative ceremony, together with an iron memorial plaque. The commemorative speech at this "sword celebration" was held by the Schwerin school councilor Johann Friedrich Christoph Meyer , who was also his Schwerin school friend and fellow student in Jena. The guest of honor was the Iven magistrate Fritz Helfritz , 1813 Oberjäger, in whose arms Theodor Körner had died.

literature

  • Friedrich Christoph Förster : The daredevil Lieutnant Schnelle , in: History of the Wars of Liberation 1813, 1814, 1815. 1856
  • Samuel Schnelle: Gottlieb Schnelle: a streak of life; based on printed and handwritten sources. Schwerin: Boldt 1869
  • Hermann Haupt: The vandal senior (Gottlieb) Schnelle, a pioneer of fraternity thought in Jena. In: Sources and presentations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement , Volume 5 (1920), pp. 62–81
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8940 .

Web links

Wikisource: The Wöbbeliner Festgräber  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Bauer , FA Pietzsch: Critical to the early history of the Göttingen and Heidelberg Vandalia in Einst und Jetzt Volume 10 (1965), pp. 108–124 (p. 118, No. 29)
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 130 , 1.
  3. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7349 .
  4. ^ Friedrich Brasch: The grave at Wöbbelin or Theodor Körner and the Lützower. Schwerin: Stiller 1861, p. 231
personal data
SURNAME Fast, Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and fighter in the wars of liberation
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1815
Place of death Lions