Hellmuth Wöhler

Hellmuth Wöhler (born March 28, 1820 in Gingst ; † August 21, 1899 in Sterzing ) was a German landlord and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Wöhler was born in Gingst in 1820 as the son of the court singer of Prince von Putbus . He spent his childhood in Gingst on Rügen . Nothing is known about his training.

In 1843 he took up a position as a post clerk in Schwerin and in 1847 he was promoted to post auditor.

With Ludwig Reinhard he joined the Central March Association and also took part in the Baden uprising in May and June 1849. For this he was sentenced to prison in 1850 for high treason , which he did not have to serve because he was pardoned by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II . He was dismissed from the postal service and leased an estate from Warin in 1850 . Dissatisfied with the existing conditions in Mecklenburg-Schwerin , he emigrated to Denmark in 1850 , where he acquired considerable fortunes as a tenant on Gotland from 1853 to 1876 . In 1876 it first settled in Wiesbaden and from 1878 lived in Riva on Lake Garda. Little explored his strange life.

Wöhler was elected as the successor to Eduard Haupt for the 2nd constituency of Wismar in the state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the National Assembly, to which he belonged from February 26, 1849 to June 18, 1849. He felt that he belonged to the left and his parliamentary group met at the German court . In May and June 1849 he took an active part in the Baden uprising. Together with Reinhard, Hellmuth Wöhler publicly protested against the unlawful dismissal of his mandate by the Mecklenburg state government, which had been issued by Cabinet Councilor Prosch on June 5, 1849 .

literature

• Jürgen Borchert : Off to Frankfurt: Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania parliamentarians as members of the Paulskirche 1848/49 , State Center for Political Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 1998, ISBN 3-931185-44-3 .

Web links

• Literature about Hellmuth Wöhler in the state bibliography MV