Youth League
The Jünglingsbund was a secret association that emerged from the fraternities at the instigation of Karl Follen and was lost in the persecution of demagogues .
The Bund was originally founded in Braunschweig in 1822 by Franz von Florencourt . After the members enrolled at various universities, the federation gained wider expansion. The fraternity member Adolph von Sprewitz from Jena began to recruit members. There were about 120 fraternity members, including Arnold Ruge , who took part. The goals of the association were the elimination of aristocratic governments and German unity. According to Follen's intention, the youth union should carry out the actions that a parallel “men's union” of “leading democrats” was supposed to design. Such a men's union never came about.
At the Nuremberg Bundestag on October 12, 1822, Robert Wesselhöft was elected chairman.
On August 31, 1823, Johannes Andreas Dietz betrayed the Youth League to the Prussian police before any action took place. The members were arrested and sentenced to long fortress sentences, especially in Prussia. On Heinrich von Prieser's initiative, 21 members of the Youth League in Württemberg were arrested and charged in 1824.
Known members
- Charles Beck (1798–1866), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Heinrich Wilhelm Bensen (1798–1863), teacher and historian
- Hermann Askan Demme (1802–1867), doctor
- Johann Christian Wilhelm Dittmar (1801–1877), member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies
- Gottfried Eisenmann (1795–1867), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Franz Chassot von Florencourt (1803–1886), writer and journalist
- Wilhelm Havemann (1800–1869), historian
- Ferdinand Ignaz Herbst (1798–1863), Roman Catholic theologian
- Ferdinand Huhold (1802–1880), Lutheran theologian
- Gottlieb Christian Kippe (1802–1883), member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives
- Gustav Kolb (1798–1865), journalist
- Heinrich August Kübel (1799–1855), Member of the State Parliament (Württemberg, Second Chamber)
- Georg Wolfgang Karl Lochner (1798–1882), Nuremberg archivist and school man
- Theodor Olshausen (1802–1869), member of the Holstein Assembly of Estates, member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Assembly
- Johann Ritter (1799–1880), member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
- Eduard Florens Rivinus (1801–1873), doctor
- Friedrich Rödinger (1800–1868), member of the preliminary parliament, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, member of the state parliament (Württemberg, Second Chamber)
- Arnold Ruge (1802–1880), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, writer
- Ignaz Schwörer (1800–1860), gynecologist and obstetrician
- Adolph von Sprewitz (1800–1882), chief inspector of the state workhouse in Güstrow
- Gottlob Tafel (1801–1874), member of the preliminary parliament, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Gottlieb von Thon-Dittmer (1802-1853), Mayor of Regensburg
- Robert Wesselhöft (1796-1852), doctor
- Gustav Adolf Wislicenus (1803–1875), Protestant theologian
- Ferdinand Johannes Wit von Dörring (1799–1863), writer, journalist and politician
- Adolf von Zerzog (1799–1880), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
literature
- Knowledge of the members of the so-called youth union on the basis of the investigations and files that took place at Cöpnik . Eduard Anton, Halle 1826 ( Google Books )