Hans Alfred Erbe

Hans Alfred Erbe (born August 22, 1823 in Altenburg ; † January 3, 1895 in New York , USA ) was a German lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Erbe was born in 1823 as the son of a teacher and after attending grammar school in Altenburg studied law at the University of Jena . There he became a member of the fraternity in the Fürstenkeller in 1842 . In 1844 he was promoted to Dr. iur. obtained his doctorate and initially worked as a lawyer in Altenburg and since 1848 in Berlin . He was significantly involved in the revolution in the Duchy of Altenburg and was therefore wanted by the police in 1848. In 1849 he was briefly a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly ( Donnersberg faction ) and the Stuttgart rump parliament . In 1849 he was civil commissioner of the Palatinate Provisional Government in Germersheim . He fled to Switzerland and later to New York, where he worked from 1856 to 1888 as a lawyer and editor of the newspaper Demokrat .

He was a freemason and master of the Zschokke Lodge No. 202 . In 1884 he became Deputy Grand Master of the German District and honorary member of the New York United Brethren Lodge .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 260.