Gustav Siedenburg

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Gustav Siedenburg (born April 5, 1813 in Schwerin , † after 1857, probably in New York City ; full name: Christian Friedrich Julius Gustav Siedenburg ) was a German theologian, educator, journalist and 1848/49 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives .

Life

Gustav Siedenburg was a son of the doctor and pharmacist Dr. (Johann) Gottlieb Siedenburg (1772–1858) and his wife Juliane Sophie Conradine, b. Friese (1778-1848). He attended the cathedral school in Ratzeburg and the large city school in Wismar , which he graduated from high school at Easter 1835. From summer 1835 to 1838 he studied Protestant theology , first at the University of Rostock , then at the University of Berlin . After completing his studies, he was a private tutor at the Alt Poorstorf estate (today a part of Passee ).

On August 13, 1838, after passing the examination, he received the licentia concionandi from Wismar superintendent Joachim Heinrich Eyller and thus the employability as a clergyman. However, he did not get an appointment as a pastor and worked as a teacher in Wismar in the 1840s.

In Wismar, Siedenburg became a driving force behind the democratic reformers. In 1845 he successfully set up street lighting, going from house to house , and in 1846 he gave decisive impetus to founding the trade association.

In the first democratic election in Mecklenburg, Siedenburg was elected on October 3, 1848 in the constituency of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 16: Groß Stieten as a member of the Mecklenburg parliament. Here he joined the faction of the reform associations, the Left , and in 1849 belonged to the minority who voted against the constitution and electoral law because they did not go far enough for them.

For a short time he became editor and publisher of the radical democratic Mecklenburg village newspaper founded by the bookseller Johann Heinrich Sievers , until it was banned on July 17, 1851.

Siedenburg probably emigrated to the USA as a Forty-Eighter in the summer of 1851 and came to New York City, where on November 19, 1851 he met Caroline Friederike Elisabeth, née van Duytz got married. On January 15, 1857, he became a citizen of the United States. His further life is still in the dark.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the regional church archive of the North Church , Schwerin branch: LKAS, OKR PA S 266.
  2. ↑ NOT: Johann Theophil , as Superintendent EYLLER states.
  3. ↑ To him see Axel Wilhelmi : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present. Schwerin: Herberger 1901, p. 93 (No. 456). - Corrected and supplemented by Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg doctors from the oldest times to the present . Schwerin, 1929. pp. 473-474.
  4. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ↑ Gustav Willgeroth : Pictures from Wismar's past . 1903 [Reprint: Stock & Stein Verlag, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-932370-41-4 ] ( digitized version ), pp. 16, 297, 320
  6. ^ Julius Wiggers : The Mecklenburg constituent assembly and the preceding reform movement: A historical account. 1850, pp. 63, 117
  7. ↑ See the announcement by Gustav Willgeroth : Pictures from Wismar's past . 1903 [Reprint: Stock & Stein Verlag, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-932370-41-4 ] ( digitized version ), p. 335
  8. ^ Marion Wolfert: Index to Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Matthew, New York City Records , accessed on ancastry.com on January 8, 2014
  9. ↑ Petition for Naturalization, 1793-1906. ARC ID: 5324244. Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Record Group 85th National Archives at New York City. New York City, New York, USA. Retrieved from ancestry.com on January 8, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Siedenburg, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siedenburg, Christian Friedrich Julius Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, pedagogue, journalist and 1848/49 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH after 1857
Place of death New York City