Gustav Rawald

Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Rawald (born June 30, 1812 in Nienburg ; † 1892 ) was a German wine merchant and revolutionary.

Life

In 1839 Rawald came to Halle (Saale) and opened the Rawald wine bar there. The bar developed into a meeting place for the progressive middle class. The rhetorically gifted Rawald founded the Democratic People's Association and became one of the leading figures of the revolution in Halle in 1848/1849 . At the Democrats' Congress in Frankfurt am Main at Pentecost in 1848 he was the only representative of the Province of Saxony . From the summer of 1848 Rawald was one of the editors of the Halle Democratic Newspaper .

After the riots in Halle on November 19, 1848, various revolutionary politicians were arrested, including Rawald. He was sentenced to six years' imprisonment, which he served in the citadel of Magdeburg Fortress. After his dismissal, he and other entrepreneurs, including Moritz Kloss , founded the Freyburger Champagner-Fabrik-Gesellschaft in 1857 . However, the company was liquidated in 1866. Moritz Kloss then continued to run the company as the Kloss & Foerster Sektkellerei without Rawald. The Rotkäppchen Sektkellerei , which still exists today, emerged from this.

literature

• Günter Adlung, Helmut Menzel, Conrad Engelhardt, Hendrik Pistor, With Water and Bread - Prisoners in the Magdeburg Fortress: From Charles de Gaulle to Freiherr von der Trenck, Ed .: Kultur- und Heimatverein Magdeburg, Ost-Nordost Verlag Magdeburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-938247-10-5 , page 110 f.