Heinrich Loose

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Heinrich Ludwig Loose (born May 16, 1812 in Stuttgart , † August 16, 1862 in Flatbush , New York ) was a German revolutionary 1848/1849 and a German Catholic preacher and poet.

Life

Heinrich Loose, whose father was court locksmith in Stuttgart, attended church monastery schools and began studying Protestant theology in Tübingen . As a fraternity member, he took part in a memorial service for the fallen workers of the Paris July Revolution of 1830 on June 6, 1833 . Loose was arrested with 94 other participants. Although he was able to complete his studies in 1834, the church leadership disciplined him by sending him to various remote villages as a vicar for eleven years . He was not employed for more than three years of that, so that his father's pocket was a problem. Loose became so sick that he had to go to a mental hospital. In the years between 1835 and 1842 he published some poems.

In July 1845 he left the regional church and joined the newly founded German Catholic movement of Johannes Ronge . Until the March Revolution of 1848 he worked for the German Catholics as a preacher, teacher and journalist. While Heinrich Loose initially had “chauvinistic” ideas about the renewal of Germany, he turned to Charles Fourier's world of ideas after the Silesian weaver revolt in 1844 . In his communities in Nimptsch and Reichenbach , the military raged particularly as a reaction to the weaver revolt.

In 1848 Heinrich Loose ran for the Frankfurt National Assembly in Lower Silesia , but was defeated because some of his supporters did not have the right to vote. In October 1848 he was called to Neustadt an der Haardt as a preacher . Here he founded a community and the free school.

Loose called on April 27, 1849 "to take up arms". Along with others like Philipp Hepp , he proclaimed the "Republic" on May 2, 1849 in Kaiserslautern . Then Loose led the Neustadt workers. He gave the socialist newspaper 'Der Pfälzer Volksmann. A democratic Kreuzerblatt 'and developed the idea of ​​a progressive income tax here. On June 12, 1849, the headquarters of the Baden insurgent army in Heidelberg, Minister of War Franz Sigel , appointed him 'civil commissioner' of Mosbach and commissioned him to occupy the town of Wimpfen with 1,000 men from the Baden People's Army . A short time later the revolution was defeated. With his comrades he fled to Switzerland after St. Gallen . Loose surrendered to the Württemberg authorities in March 1850 and was imprisoned on the Hohenasperg (March 15, 1850 - July 14, 1851). On June 29, 1850, he was charged and convicted of high treason and treason in Zweibrücken . The execution of the death penalty was suspended after 18 months in prison on the condition that he left Württemberg immediately and emigrated to the USA .

In the United States Loose in 1852 founded the, the free man 'in association Williamsburg ( Brooklyn ), and became its spokesman. 1853 he was appointed as successor to Eduard Schröter spokesman for the Free Church in Milwaukee ( Wisconsin called). From May 22, 1853, he took over the publication of the journal Der Humanist: An organ for the Free Congregations and Free Schools, the nurses of humanity . He was committed to the welfare of workers and from 1855 published the socialist newspaper Der Arbeiter in Milwaukee. In 1853 he founded the city's' socialist gymnastics club ' with the workers' leader August Willich . Loose fell ill in 1856, suffered from nervous breakdowns and paranoia, and eventually went to the poor and madhouse in Flatbush. He died there on August 15, 1862.

Works

  • Poems . Rieger & Comp., Stuttgart, Leipzig 1836
  • The Lilies Death . 1840 digitized
  • May bells . Rieger & Comp., Stuttgart, Leipzig 1841
  • Württemberg folk song . Verl. Of the music and art dealership zum Haydn, Stuttgart 1842
  • Christian German songs . Macklot, Karlsruhe 1843
  • History of German Christianity and the Volkskirche from the beginnings of Germanic life to the present day. A speech to the people . Trewendt i. Come on, Breslau 1845
  • Swabian Museum. Family sheet for entertainment and instruction and for discussing patriotic interests . Edited by H. Loose. April – December 1845, Stuttgart 1845
  • The moral and scientific suicide of the Catholic reformer Dr. Th. Anton Theiner . Wroclaw 1846
  • The new time. Volksblatt for entertainment, instruction and discussion of patriotic interests . Edited by Heinrich Loose, Stuttgart, Esslingen 1846
  • anonymous: The wandering barricade or: the Württemberg, Palatinate and Baden revolutions. Well-fitting and rhyming in three acts courageous all Turkish music. High traitor unhanged by shock. Bern 1849
  • The Prophet of Nazareth was the political and social reformer of his people. An impartial view of history based on the 4 Gospels . Carl Riecker, Lübingen 1852
  • The German constitutional struggle. Battle pictures drawn by Heinrich Loose. Carl Mäcken's Verlag, Reutlingen, Leipzig 1852 digitized
  • The worker. Edited by Heinrich Loose. Milwaukee 1855

literature

  • Friedrich Albrecht: Inaugural sermon at his inauguration carried out by Heinrich Loose (...). In addition to the inauguration speech of the latter. 1846.
  • Indictment files, drawn up by the K. General State Procuratorate of the Palatinate, together with the verdict of the Prosecution Chamber of the K. Appellate Court of the Palatinate in Zweibrucken on June 29, 1850, in the investigation against Martin Reichard, dismissed notary in Speyer and 332 consorts, for armed Rebellion against armed power, treason and treason . G. Ritter'schen Buchdruckerei publishing house, Zweibrücker 1850 digitized version
  • Wilhelm Hense-Jensen, Ernest Bruncken: Wisconsin's German-Americans, until the end of the nineteenth century . The German Society, Milwaukee 1902.
  • Hellmut G. Haasis: Loose, Heinrich. In: Manfred Asendorf, Rolf von Bockel (eds.): Democratic ways. German résumés from five centuries . JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-476-01244-1 , pp. 396-397.
  • Katja Rampelmann: In the light of reason. The history of the German-American freethinker almanac from 1878 to 1901. Steiner, Stuttgart 2003 (Univ., Diss.-2000 - Bochum) ( Transatlantic Historical Studies Vol. 13)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nürnberger Zeitung No. 197 of July 16, 1845 digitized
  2. ↑ Hellmut G. Haasis, p. 396.
  3. ^ In the case of Hellmut G. Haasis, by mistake, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .
  4. ↑ Albrecht Krause, Erich Viehöfer: On the mountains of freedom. The Hohenasperg and the judgment on the revolution. House of History Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1998, p. 49.
personal data
SURNAME Loose, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loose, Heinrich Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic preacher and revolutionary 1848/49
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1862
Place of death Flatbush , New York