Johann August Messerich

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Johann August Messerich (born January 26, 1806 in Bitburg ; died January 3, 1876 in Trier ) was a German lawyer and member of the Prussian National Assembly .

Life

Johann August Messerich attended the Royal High School in Trier and received his Abitur there in 1825. He studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn (1829) and since the winter semester 1832/33 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg . There he joined the German Press and Fatherland Association . In 1830 he became a member of the Old Bonn Burschenschaft , in 1831 of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft / Fäßlianer . He took part in the Hambach Festival in 1834 . He was arrested in Trier for participating in the Hambach Festival in 1834. In Berlin he was sentenced to 13 years in a fortress , but released from prison in 1839. After that, Messerich was appointed ausculator at the regional court in Düsseldorf , in 1841 trainee lawyer and in 1845 as lawyer .

In the elections to the National Assembly in Frankfurt am Main in 1848, Messerich was elected elector in Trier, who supported the election of Ludwig Simon . In 1848 Messerich was elected to the Prussian National Assembly for the “constituency of Bitburg”. In 1849 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . In both bodies he belonged to the "extreme left".

Messerich was friends with Karl Marx and last met him in 1863 when Marx was in Trier.

In 1875 he was awarded the title of Counselor of Justice . Johann August Messerich died on January 3rd, 1876 in Trier.

Works

  • Johann Baptist Schwickerath, Eduard von Reichenbach , Jean Augustin Messerich include: The undersigned deputies honor hereby to present the draft of a law on the state of municipalities, counties and districts of Prussia, together with the associated equipment and a speedy deliberation it in to apply to the departments . Berlin August 10, 1848 (digitized version)

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 90-92.
  • Karl Leopold Kaufmann: Augustin Messerich, an old German fraternity from the Eifel. A picture of contemporary history. In: Rheinische Vierteljahresblätter. II. 1932, p. 117 ff.
  • Heinz-Günther Böse: Heads of the revolution of 1848/49 in Trier and the surrounding area. In: Elisabeth Dühr (Ed.): "The worst point in the province". Democratic revolution 1848/49 in Trier and the surrounding area. Catalog manual . Städtisches Museum Simeonstift, Trier 1998, ISBN 3-930866-13-7 .
  • Eberhard Klopp: Messerich, Johann August. In: Trier biographical lexicon. Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 294.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Because his birth certificate was written in French due to the French occupation , he is also called Jean Augustin Messerich in the literature .
  2. ↑ Heinz Monz: Karl Marx. Basics of the development of life and work . NCO-Verlag, Trier 1973, p. 378.
  3. ↑ Heinz Monz: Karl Marx. Basics of the development of life and work . NCO-Verlag, Trier 1973, p. 207.
  4. ↑ Johann Jacob Conradi to Karl Marx March 12, 1864. (Printed in: Manfred Schöncke: Karl and Heinrich Marx and their siblings . Pahl-Rugenstein successors, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-89144-185-1 , p. 777.)
personal data
SURNAME Messerich, Johann August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Messerich, Jean Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitburg
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1876
Place of death trier