Gustav Adolph Techow

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Contemporary caricature: Heroic Defense of the Armory

Gustav Adolph Techow (* 1813 ; † May 25, 1890 in Melbourne ) was a Prussian officer, German revolutionary and gymnastics teacher in Australia .

Life

Techow left as a Prussian lieutenant on June 14, 1848 at the Berlin Armory storm the Berlin vigilantes in the armory one. His superior, Captain Hermann von Natzmer (1806-1858), also refused to give an order to shoot. Both were therefore sentenced in July 1848 to 15 years' arrest . They managed to escape from the casemates of the Spandau Citadel .

In spring 1849 Techow came to the Bavarian Palatinate and became a participant in the Palatinate uprising . On May 20, 1849, the provisional government appointed a military commission for the Palatinate . Former officers who had deserted became full members . Techow was appointed its chairman and chief of the general staff .

After the failure of the imperial constitution campaign , he fled to Switzerland and went to England in 1850, where he founded a gymnasium. In 1852 he emigrated to Australia with Natzmer. One reason was the gold rush . In 1866 he was a gymnastics teacher and author there.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels mention him in their letters.

The Palatinate Court of Appeal in Zweibrücken sentenced Techow to death in absentia . In the indictment file he was ranked 186th. An amnesty in Bavaria took place in 1865.

Otto Hartmann wrote: “From time to time a profile was issued against him [in Prussia] in order to interrupt the statute of limitations. After the death of Kaiser Wilhelm he came to Switzerland and asked Berlin whether he could return home. Then the profile against him was renewed - in 1888! "

Works

literature

  • Rudolf H. Böttcher: Military Units - People's Armed Forces and “Freebands”. In: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849. A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution. Special issue of the Association for Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies. Volume 14. Issue 6. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1999. P. 300, 317.
  • Franziska Rogger: “We help ourselves!” Erlanger Studies, Volume 67, 1986. P. 450.
  • Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Works. ( MEW ), Dietz Verlag, Berlin. Volume 28, pp. 61..553.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Hartmann: The popular uprising of the years 1848 and 1849 in Germany. Berlin 1900.
personal data
SURNAME Techow, Gustav Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Techow, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian officer and German revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1890
Place of death Melbourne