Heinrich Arminius Riemann

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Heinrich Arminius Riemann (around 1825)

Heinrich Arminius Riemann , actually: Heinrich Herrmann R., sometimes incorrectly: Heinrich Armin R. (born December 5, 1793 in Domhof Ratzeburg ; † January 26, 1872 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ) was a German theologian and fraternity member .

family

Heinrich Herrmann Riemann (his fellow students later translated the middle name Herrmann as Arminius , from which the name form, which is known to this day, but which Riemann himself rejected) was born as the younger son of the Protestant theologian and then rector of the cathedral school Friedrich Justus Gottlob Riemann (1752-1809) and the pastor's daughter Luise Karoline, b. Schmideke (1757–1827) was born on the Ratzeburg cathedral courtyard belonging to Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Carl Riemann was his older brother.

Riemann married on December 28, 1821 in the cathedral parish of Ratzeburg Henriette (Christiane Anna) Gensler (* 1802), a daughter of the lawyer, town councilor and university professor in Jena and Heidelberg, Johann Kaspar Gensler (1767-1821). The couple had eleven children. The son Adolph (Johannes Gottfried) (born October 10, 1828), actually a seaman, emigrated to the USA. He died in the Civil War as a lieutenant in the 15th New York Heavy Artillery at the Battle of Hatcher's Run on February 7, 1865.

Life

Riemann grew up in Ratzeburg and Schönberg (Mecklenburg) , where his father was the first pastor from 1801. After attending the cathedral school in Ratzeburg (he was top of the class there) and the Katharineum in Lübeck until Michaelis 1812, Riemann began studying Protestant theology in Jena in 1812 and became a member of the Vandalia Corpsland team there in 1813 . Influenced by Heinrich Luden , he took part in the German Wars of Liberation and in 1813 joined the Lützower Jäger (2nd Jäger Company). He took part in the battle of Gadebusch and witnessed the death and burial of Theodor Körner there .

In 1814 he returned to Jena and was actively involved in the local armed forces , an early fraternity association in which he made friends with Karl Horn and became a companion of Karl Scheidler . In 1815 he served as a lieutenant in a Paderborn Landwehr regiment. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his service in the Battle of Ligny .

Jenaer Gedenkblatt (1883) - The founders of the German fraternity : Riemann (above), Horn (left) and Scheidler (right)

Returning to his studies in the summer of 1816, Riemann was elected to the committee and in November to the board of the Jena Urburschenschaft founded on June 12, 1815 by Karl Horn and others , who immediately made him spokesman . Riemann himself is considered to be one of the founders of the original fraternity. At his own request he was dismissed as a Prussian Landwehr officer. At the Wartburg Festival October 18, 1817, he gave the speech in front of 500 students in which he called for freedom and unity. Together with Karl Müller , also a former Lützower, he developed the liberal program Principles and Resolutions of October 18 .

From 1818 to 1821 he was a private teacher in Boizenburg / Elbe . He lived with his brother, who was pastor of the town church. Under pressure from Prussia , he was arrested on August 18, 1819, brought to Schwerin on remand, but was released on September 25 and remained under police supervision until 1821 in the course of the demagogue persecution .

For a short time he was employed as a private tutor with Friedrich Christoph Perthes in Hamburg , but his efforts to become a teacher in the Hamburg civil service were unsuccessful. From 1821 to 1828 he worked as a high school teacher in Eutin , where the sports club TS Riemann Eutin is still named after him, and Michaelis from 1828 to 1835 at the school of scholars in Friedland. Through him, Johann Carl Heinrichs and Karl Horn, the grammar school in Friedland became a center of fraternity spirit and patriotic gymnastics. Fritz Reuter was one of his students there. Reuter put a literary memorial in Hanne Nute's farewell to the pastor .

From 1835 to 1872 he was a Protestant pastor at St. Marienkirche in Friedland . In Friedland he was lifelong connected to his colleague from Jena, Johann Carl Heinrich, as his colleague at the Nikolaikirche, until his death . At Riemann's jubilee in 1871, he was made an honorary citizen by his community and the city's magistrate , honored many times by the German fraternities and appointed to the church council by the grand duke .

Riemann remained a political person throughout his life. In 1848 Riemann was elected from the Strelitz constituency as a member of the first democratic state parliament of Mecklenburg; there he was a member of the left. He supported the imperial constitution campaign and showed solidarity with the Baden Revolution in 1849 . In 1850 he was the founder of an aid association for Schleswig-Holstein and, as an "enemy of the state", had to endure house searches which, however, could not affect him. In 1865 he took part in the fraternity's 50th anniversary in Jena. Riemann ran unsuccessfully for the North German Reichstag. In 1871 he confessed to founding an empire .

The Riemannstrasse in Eisenach

His tomb on the edge of the long-abandoned old Friedland cemetery (in the ramparts) has been preserved to this day, but is no longer on the actual grave. The Riemannstrasse in Friedland , Berlin-Kreuzberg and Eisenach are named after him, there is a Riemann memorial and a memorial plaque is attached to the location of his house near the Marienkirche.

Fonts

  • Complete instructions for shock fencing according to Kreussler's principles. Engelmann, Leipzig 1834.
  • The sergeant in the Colberg Regiment Sophia Dorothea Friederike Krüger, Knight of the Iron Cross and the Russian Order of George, from Friedland in Meklenburg-Strelitz. Not a novella, but a picture of life, drawn from documents. Duncker, Berlin 1865.
  • Justification of a slandered fraternity. Walther, Friedland 1865.
  • Chronicle of the city of Friedland 1839 to 1870. Redaria-Verlag, Wismar 2000. ISBN 3-933771-02-1 .

literature

  • Friedrich Koch: Heinrich Arminius Riemann, the Wartburgredner from 1817. His life and work. 1927, new edition Lahr / Schwarzwald 1992.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 75-77.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8175 .
  • Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (=  treatises on student and higher education . Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005. ISBN 3-89498-156-3 . P. 67 f.
  • Peter Hoffmann: Heinrich Arminius Riemann. Teacher, pastor, democrat. Steffen, Friedland 2006.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Arminius Riemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church register Ratzeburg (cathedral), marriage entry No. 7/1821.
  2. ↑ a b Georg Krüger: The pastors in the Stargard country since the Reformation . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, vol. 69 (1904), pp. 1–270, here p. 49.
  3. ↑
  4. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized version , no. 32
  5. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 130 , 50
  6. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 75.
  7. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 75.
  8. ^ Friedrich Koch: Heinrich Arminius Riemann, the Wartburgredner from 1817. His life and work. 1927, new edition Lahr / Schwarzwald 1992, p. 8.
  9. ↑ Georg Krüger: The pastors in the country of Stargard since the Reformation . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, vol. 69 (1904), pp. 1–270, here p. 7.
  10. ↑ Detailed biography of Heinrich Arminius Riemann in the chronicle of the "Turnerschaft Riemann von 1821" Eutin e. V. , accessed February 5, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Riemann, Heinrich Arminius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riemann, Heinrich Herrmann (real name); Riemann, Heinrich Armin (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fraternity and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1872
Place of death Friedland (Mecklenburg)