Gustav Tiedemann

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Gustav Nikolaus Tiedemann (born February 17, 1808 in Landshut , † August 11, 1849 in Rastatt ) was a professional officer in Baden and Greek services, most recently an officer in the Baden Revolutionary Army and from June 29, 1849 governor of the Rastatt fortress .

Life

Tiedemann, the eldest son of the physiologist Friedrich Tiedemann , began his military career in 1828 when he was appointed lieutenant in the Baden dragoon regiment . In 1833 he resigned after a brief imprisonment and joined the service of Greece as a sergeant , where he was most recently director of a war school in Piraeus . After an uprising against King Otto I in 1843, he lost this position and returned to Baden with his Greek wife.

His younger brother Heinrich Tiedemann was a brother-in-law of Friedrich Hecker , through whom Tiedemann came into contact with revolutionary circles in Baden. As a major , he initially operated the union of the Baden and Palatinate Revolutionary Armies in Kaiserslautern in 1849 and then joined the staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Baden Revolutionary Army, General Ludwik Mierosławski . During the Baden Revolution he was part of the radical, social democratic wing ("Club of Decided Progress") around Gustav Struve , Fritz Anneke , Mathilde Franziska Anneke , Friedrich Engels , Carl Schurz , Johann Philipp Becker and Wilhelm Liebknecht, together with them from the liberal war minister Amand Goegg imprisoned. When the revolutionary army had to retreat south to the Murglinie after several lost battles , Mieroslawski, who enforced the liberation of the experienced revolutionaries against the Brentano government , appointed Tiedemann as governor of Rastatt fortress on June 29, 1849.

Tiedemann firmly refused to surrender to the Prussians and even wanted to blow up the fortress in the end rather than hand it over to the Prussians. After the fortress surrendered on July 23, 1849, Tiedemann was one of the first to be brought before a court martial in Baden and shot on August 11, 1849.

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