Hermann Theodor Haustein

Hermann Theodor Haustein (born May 3, 1814 in Geyer ; † April 21, 1873 in Zwickau ) was a German lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Frankfurt pre-parliament and the Saxon state parliament .

Live and act

The son of Christian Friedrich Haustein enrolled on October 10, 1832 to study at the Freiberg Mining Academy and then studied from 1834 to 1837 at the University of Leipzig , where he joined the fraternity Beduinia belonged to that law . In 1842 or 1843 he was enrolled as a lawyer, where his place of residence is given as Annaberg . He subsequently settled in Crimmitschau as a lawyer and held the office of mayor there from May 9, 1845 to 1847. He founded a child preservation institution and a savings bank on site. After moving back to Annaberg, he was made an honorary citizen in Crimmitschau. In 1848 Haustein was elected chairman of the Annaberger Vaterlandsverein . In the same year he was appointed a member of the Frankfurt preliminary parliament by the Heidelberg Commission of Seven and confirmed on March 26th at a popular assembly. Since he found a “ council of princes ” in Frankfurt , he was of the opinion that one was not entitled to debate constitutional questions. In general , he was of the opinion that a two-chamber system was only justified if both chambers had the character of representative bodies. He left the pre-parliament after the request for immediate repeal of the exceptional resolutions and renewal of the Bundestag had been rejected.

He was a member of the Annaberg city council and editor of the Zeitbotens . In the spring of 1849 he was a representative of the 53rd electoral district in the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament , where he joined the social democratic club . On May 6, 1849, he called on his fellow citizens of Annaberg to support the Dresden May uprising and to move to Dresden. After the Annaberg city council decided against supporting the May uprising, it demanded an ultimate decision from the city council and municipal guard committee on behalf of the Provisional Government under Samuel Erdmann Tzschirner , Otto Leonhard Heubner and Carl Gotthelf Todt . After the unrest in Dresden was put down, he was suspended from his municipal office and Haustein was placed in pre-trial detention. He used a temporary release by hand vow on August 18, 1849 to flee to Switzerland. From 1852 to 1857 he stayed in Thurgau and Winterthur . After a new penal code was passed in 1857, he returned to Germany. He was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison, but thanks to Hermann Joseph's defense, this sentence was reduced to one year in prison at Hubertusburg Castle . From 1859 on he worked as a lawyer in Zwickau. In 1861 he regained his citizenship. He became a director of the citizens' union and the stock corporation. From 1865 to 1867 he again took over a municipal office in his new hometown: he acted as city councilor for Zwickau.

Works

• Tangible celebrations to facilitate the mortgage credit initially for cities in the Kingdom of Saxony , 2nd A., 1868.

literature

• T. Tonndorf: The Saxon Members of the Frankfurt Pre- and National Assembly , Diss. Dresden 1993, p. 182f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bergakademie Freiberg (ed.): Festschrift for the centenary of the Königl. Saxon. Bergakademie zu Freiberg on July 30, 1866. p. 261 ( digitized version )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} T. Tonndorf: The Saxon Members of the Frankfurt Pre- and National Assembly , Diss. Dresden 1993, p. 182f.
3. ^ Theodor Tauchnitz and Wilhelm Theodor Richter (eds.): Journal for justice and administration, initially for the Kingdom of Saxony. Volume 3, 1843, p. 507 ( digitized version)
4. ^ Christian Friedrich Kästner: Chronicle of the city of Crimmitschau . 1853, p. 134 ( digitized version)
5. ^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the history of the Saxon state parliament - presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 103