Gustav Adolph Rösler

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Gustav Adolph Rösler

Gustav Adolph Rösler (born October 31, 1818 in Görlitz , † August 13, 1855 in Quincy ) was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

He was the son of Johann August Rösler, high school principal in Görlitz. He attended high school there and studied history and political science in Berlin and Breslau between 1835 and 1839 . After that he was an assistant teacher at a private girls' school in Breslau until 1844. In 1843 he was also editor of the “Lausitzer Chronik” and wrote various smaller papers. From 1844 he was a teacher at the grammar school in Oels . He taught German and history. In 1848 he also became editor of the opposition "Wochenblatt für das Fürstentum Oels". As a result, he became known politically and was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly in May 1848 for the constituency of Oels. He belonged to the left parliamentary group Deutscher Hof . He didn't really play a prominent role there. However, he reported on the proceedings in Parliament and the members with gross derision. On the other hand, he was referred to in cartoons because of his clothing as the "Imperial Canary".

Caricature by Alfons von Boddien on Rösler as an imperial canary : sings little - speaks a lot - lives from diets

In the negotiations he made frequent contributions on various topics. On August 1, 1848, he gave a major parliamentary speech to abolish the nobility. In September 1848, at the risk of his life, he mediated between the conflicting parties and contributed to the end of the barricade struggle of the insurgents in Frankfurt. This act made him known. In November of that year he acted against the dissolution of the Prussian National Assembly in Silesia . In 1849 he was also a member of the rump parliament in Stuttgart .

After its dissolution, he followed the parliamentary president as secretary to Baden-Baden and Freiburg im Breisgau . In May and June 1849 he was an active participant in the Baden uprising . He was commissioner of the imperial government in Württemberg and the Black Forest. In July 1849 he was arrested and then sentenced to four months of imprisonment at Hohenasperg fortress . He was released on bail in October that year. At the instigation of Prussia, he was arrested again in December and held in custody at Hohenasperg.

In February 1850, with the help of his wife, he managed to escape to Switzerland . In absentia, criminal proceedings for high treason took place in Breslau between August and September 1851. There he was sentenced to eight years in prison for insulting majesty, inducing soldiers to breach allegiance and inciting rebellion and high treason. Rösler had been living in the USA since 1850. There he initially worked as a private teacher and was later director of German schools in New York City and Milwaukee . Between 1852 and 1855 he was editor of the "Quincy Tribune" in Quincy.

literature

  • Karl Wippermann :  Rösler, Gustav Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 240 f.
  • Norbert Conrads: From Silesia to America. The way of the member of the Frankfurt National Assembly Gustav Adolf Rösler (1818–1855). In: Reports and Research. Yearbook of the Federal Institute for East German History. Vol. 7/1999 pp. 109-138

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personal data
SURNAME Rösler, Gustav Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1855
Place of death Quincy