Johann Adam von Itzstein

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Johann Adam von Itzstein 1842
Family grave of the von Itzstein family, Hallgarten (Rheingau) . The reverse of the gravestone of JAvI himself bears the inscription: "Tired of the youth struggles of German freedom, a brave heart rests here"

Johann Adam von Itzstein (born September 28, 1775 in Mainz , † September 14, 1855 in Hallgarten ) was a German liberal politician.

Life

Itzstein studied law at the University of Mainz and became a member of the Mainz Jacobin Club in 1792/93 . After his exams in 1797 he worked in Amorbach , Miltenberg and Schwetzingen as a lawyer, bailiff and city director. In 1819 he was transferred to Mannheim as court judge .

In 1822 he became a member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly . There he acquired an important reputation for his liberal views. In particular, he advocated freedom of the press , the expansion of parliamentary rights and efficient control of the budget. Due to his political activities, he was transferred as a civil servant and retired in 1824. He lived on his income as a co-owner and later sole owner of the Hallgarten winery near Oestrich-Winkel in the Hessian Rheingau.

Due to his age and his function as the initiator of numerous meetings and talks - including the Hallgarten circle on his estate - Itzstein was regarded as the doyen of southern German liberalism . The publicist Robert Blum , the doctor Johann Jacoby , the lawyers Friedrich Hecker and Heinrich von Gagern , the publisher Friedrich Daniel Bassermann , the poet of the Deutschlandlied, Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , and the writers Ferdinand Freiligrath , Rudolf von Gottschall and August met in Hallgarten Hergenhahn . Itzstein was one of the most popular liberals of the Vormärz and a real cult around his person arose during his lifetime, which culminated in an Itzstein song written by Hoffmann von Fallersleben.

Itzstein was a participant in the Heppenheim conference of 1847, organizer of the Heidelberg meeting and the driving force behind the invitations to the pre-parliament in 1848. After the pre-parliament he was a member of the Fifties Committee . For the constituency of Bretten he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , where he belonged to the left parliamentary group Deutscher Hof and the March Association . After the dissolution of the Stuttgart rump parliament , he was charged with high treason and emigrated to Switzerland . In 1850 he returned to Germany .

Itzstein died in Hallgarten in 1855. The grave medallion in the local cemetery was made according to a design by the sculptor Phillip Hermann Leonhard .

literature

  • Friedrich von Weech :  Itzstein, Johann Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 649 f.
  • Birgit Bublies-Godau: Johann Adam von Itzstein (1775–1855). From the Jakobin Club in Mainz to the National Assembly in Frankfurt: champions, spokesmen and top politicians of the bourgeois constitutional and democracy movement . In: Walter Schmidt (Hrsg.): Actors of a radical change. Men and women of the revolution of 1848/49 , Vol. 3, Fides Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-931363-15-4 , pp. 303-357.
  • Birgit Bublies-Godau: Itzstein, Johann Adam von. born September 28, 1775 in Mainz; died 14.9.1855 in Hallgarten. In: Manfred Asendorf (Ed.): Democratic Ways , Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01244-1 , pp. 295-296.
  • Josef Roßkopf: Johann Adam von Itzstein. A contribution to the history of Baden liberalism . Phil. Diss., Mainz 1954.

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personal data
SURNAME Itzstein, Johann Adam von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liberal politician of the Baden state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1855
Place of death Hallgarten