Johann Adam Förster

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Johann Adam Förster (born August 27, 1795 in Grüsselbach , † March 22, 1890 in New York ) was a German publisher and politician . He was one of the founders of the democratic newspaper Teutsches Volksblatt , which appeared in Fulda in 1832 .

Förster studied economics, agriculture and law at the universities in Würzburg , Jena and Marburg . During his studies, he became a member of several fraternities : Old Bonn Burschenschaft / General (1819), Old Würzburg Burschenschaft (1820), Arminia Aschaffenburg Burschenschaft (1820, co-founder), Jena Burschenschaft (1821), Old Burschenschaft Germania Marburg (1823). As a fraternity member he was arrested in 1823 and imprisoned for six years.

He became mayor of Hünfeld in 1846 .

At the time of the German Revolution (1848) he was one of the outstanding personalities in the pre-parliament , the German National Assembly in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt . There he belonged to the left parliamentary group Deutscher Hof . He was also a member of the Hessian Estates Assembly from 1848 to 1850 .

After the failure of the revolution, Förster had to flee Hünfeld, he stayed briefly in Buttlar (which was then part of Weimar ). He later emigrated to America.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 50 f.
  • Ewald Grothe : Constitution and Constitutional Conflict. The Electorate of Hesse in the first era Hassenpflug 1830–1837 , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= writings on the history of the constitution , 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4 .
  • Ewald Grothe, Hellmut Seier (arrangement): Files and letters from the beginnings of the Hessian constitutional period 1830–1837 , ed. von Hellmut Seier, Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse , 48.4; Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse , 8), ISBN 3-7708-0993-9 .
  • Ludwig Pralle: Johann Adam Förster, pioneer of democracy , in: Parish council of the community of Rasdorf (ed.): Rasdorf, contributions to the history of a 1200-year-old community , Rasdorf 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Forester, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Grüsselbach
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1890
Place of death New York City