Jacob Venedey

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Jacob Venedey

Jacob Venedey (born May 24, 1805 in Cologne , † February 8, 1871 in Oberweiler ) was a German publicist and politician .

Life

Jakob Venedey, 1848
daguerreotype by Hermann Biow

Venedey studied from 1824 to 1827 at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bonn law and then worked in his father's law firm. During his studies he became a member of the Old Bonn Burschenschaft in 1824 and a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft in 1825 . At the beginning of the 1830s he began to work as a journalist and took part in the Hambach Festival . In September 1832 he was arrested in Mannheim and transferred to the Frankenthal prison for pre- trial detention . In addition to participating in the Hambach Festival, he was accused of violating the press law and membership in a fraternity. Venedey escaped from prison to Strasbourg . After the Frankfurt Wachensturm he was expelled from Strasbourg and lived in Paris from the end of December 1833 . There he founded the German People's Association and in 1834 became head of the League of Outlaws . He worked as a Paris correspondent for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung and the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung, among others . In 1840 Heinrich Heine referred to him in the third book of his Börne "memorandum". The pre-March politician Georg Fein belonged to Venedey's circle of friends in exile .

In the 1840s he worked on the first and second editions of the Rotteck-Welcker State Lexicon . In 1848 he was a member of the pre-parliament and became a member of the Fifties Committee . From May 18, 1848 until the end of the rump parliament on June 18, 1849 , he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for Hesse-Homburg . In the Paulskirchenparliament he was a member of several committees, particularly on Austrian affairs, and was one of the Deutscher Hof and Westendhall factions .

In 1850 Venedey took part in the German-Danish War as a war correspondent , but was expelled from Kiel . The Prussian government then expelled him from Berlin and Breslau , whereupon he moved to Bonn as a private lecturer in 1852 and to Zurich in 1853 . In 1854 he married the Baden republican Henriette Obermüller , with whom he had several children, including the future politician Martin Venedey . In 1855 he returned to Germany as a freelance writer and lived first in Heidelberg , from 1858 in Badenweiler, where he ran a guesthouse with his wife.

Venedey was admitted to the St Jean de Jerusalem Masonic Lodge in Nancy in 1833 . In 1837 he held the funeral oration at the grave of his Masonic brother Ludwig Börne in Paris . When he finally settled in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1853 after his exile , he joined the local lodge Zur noble Aussicht . He was an honorary member of the Basel Lodge on Resistance . In 1865 he became an honorary member of the Germania Jena fraternity .

Works (selection)

  • Travel and rest days in Normandy. At 17 contemporary Illustrations & a frontispiece . Ed. V. Fritz Mende . Berlin / GDR: Rütten & Loening 1986. - First edition 1838 by Friedrich Fleischer in Leipzig.
  • The Germans and French according to the spirit of their languages ​​and proverbs . X, 176 pp., Heidelberg, Winter, 1842. Digitized
  • England . 3 parts. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1845.
  • Machiavel, Montesquieu, Rousseau . Franz Duncker. Berlin, 1850. Digitized

literature

  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , pp. 342-343.
  • Birgit Bublies-Godau: Jakob Venedey - Henriette Obermüller-Venedey: The hero of parliament and the Heckerin , In: The forty-eight. Pictures of life from the German Revolution 1848/49 ed. by Sabine Freitag, Munich: Verlag CH Beck 1998, pp. 237–248 ISBN 3-406-42770-7
  • Birgit Bublies-Godau: Party formation processes in pre-March exile: The German foreign associations in Paris. A look at the secret “League of Outlaws” from 1834/36 and the work of its leader Jakob Venedey (1805-1871) , In: Jahrbuch Forum Vormärz Research (FVF) 10 (2004). Vormärz and Exile - Vormärz in Exile ed. by Norbert Otto Eke u. Fritz Wahrenburg, Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2005, pp. 87–147 ISBN 3-89528-526-9
  • Birgit Bublies-Godau: Jakob Venedey and the 1848 revolution , In: Biographical research on actors of the revolution 1848/49. Colloquium on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the revolution of 1848/49. April 26, 2008. Lectures - Part 2: Biographical Research on Actors of the Revolution 1848/49 ed. from the association "Helle Panke" for the promotion of politics, education and culture e. V., arr. by Walter Schmidt (Pankower lectures. Publ. by the association "Helle Panke", no. 123), Berlin 2008, pp. 42–50.
  • Birgit Bublies-Godau: Venedey, lawyers, politicians, publicists, writers, historians , In: Maximilian Lanzinner / Hans-Christof Kraus (ed.): New German Biography . For the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 26: Tecklenburg - Vocke, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2016, pp. 746–753, Sp. 1.
  • Birgit Bublies-Godau: “The festival gave the Germans a flag, ... the flag of freedom, the flag of Germany. ... The festival pronounced the name republic and named the future of Germany and Europe. ”The democrat Jakob Venedey (1805-1871), his view of the Hambach festival and his struggle for freedom, unity, human rights and the international community on the old continent , In: Yearbook of the Hambach Society 23 (2016) ed. from the Hambach Society for Historical Research and Civic Education eV, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2017, pp. 11–48.
  • Birgit Bublies-Godau:  Venedey, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , pp. 747-749 ( digitized version ).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 123-127.
  • Axel Kuhn: Venedey, Jakob , In: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Democratic and Liberal Movements in Central Europe ed. by Helmut Reinalter, Vol. 2 / Part 1 (Series of publications by the International Research Center "Democratic Movements in Central Europe 1770-1850", Vol. 39), Frankfurt / M. / Berlin a. a .: Verlag Peter Lang 2005, p. 286f. ISBN 3-631-39263-X
  • Harry Schmidtgall: Friedrich Engels ´ Stay in Manchester 1842–1844. Social movements and political discussions. With excerpts from Jakob Venedey's book on England (1845) and unknown Engels documents, Trier 1981. (= writings from the Karl Marx House, issue 25)
  • Enno Stahl: Venedey, Jakob , In: Cologne Authors Lexicon 1750-2000, Vol. 1: 1750-1900. After preliminary work by Gertrud Wegener with the assistance of Heribert A. Hilgers, edit. by Enno Stahl (messages from the Cologne City Archives, issue 88), Cologne: Herman-Josef Emons Verlag 2000, pp. 235f. ISBN 3-89705-192-3
  • Hermann Venedey: Jakob Venedey, description of his life and his political development up to the dissolution of the first German National Assembly in 1849 . University of Freiburg im Breisgau., Phil. Diss., 1930. Stockach, 1930, 227 pp.
  • Karl Wippermann:  Venedey, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 600-604.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Dieter Lent: Finding aid on the inventory of the estate of the democrat Georg Fein (1803 - 1869) and the Fein family (1737-) approx. 1772-1924 . Lower Saxony Archive Administration, Wolfenbüttel 1991, pp. 82, 86, 367f. ISBN 3-927495-02-6
personal data
SURNAME Venedey, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1871
Place of death Oberweiler