Johann Nepomuk Fromherz

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Johann Nepomuk Fromherz - after an oil painting in family ownership

Johann Nepomuk Fromherz (born May 16, 1801 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † December 15, 1892 ibid) was a Baden civil servant and politician .

Life

Johann Nepomuk Fromherz was born as the son of court attorney Joseph Fromherz (1763–1844) and his wife, Elisabeth Jäck. After attending the Freiburg grammar school, he studied philosophy and law in Freiburg. During his studies in 1818 he and his brother Karl Fromherz became a member of the old Freiburg fraternity . In 1822 he became a legal intern in Waldkirch , Triberg and Freiburg. In 1829 he became an assessor at the Freiburg District Office. In 1835 he was promoted to government councilor in the government of the Upper Rhine District , where he worked under the government director August Marschall von Bieberstein . Since he did not want to give up this activity, he declined an appointment as a representative of the Freiburg University in the first chamber of the Baden state parliament .

During the Baden Revolution of 1848/49 Fromherz played an intermediary role between the grand ducal government and various deployed military associations. Already on March 17, 1848 - before the Offenburg assembly - he was appointed ministerial commissioner and was supposed to march with the Freiburg infantry regiment against the revolutionaries, provided that the armed uprising was propagated in Offenburg. On April 6, 1848 he was appointed government commissioner in the Württemberg federal troops under General Moriz von Miller . He tried to delay their invasion of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Only after the march of Friedrich Hecker's Freischaren on Donaueschingen did the Württemberg march in, accompanied by Fromherz. Fromherz documented in a report, the Battle of Dossenbach between Wurttembergers and the German Democratic Legion of Georg Herwegh .

On May 24, 1848, Johann Baptist Bekk , with whom he was active in the Freiburg fraternity, appointed him to the head of the lake district government in order to calm the situation there after the Hecker move . His predecessor in office, Joseph Ignatz Peter , had joined the revolution. During the third uprising in Baden in May 1849, Fromherz refused allegiance to the provisional government and fled to Lindau . After the suppression of the revolution, he returned to Constance with the federal troops on July 10, 1849 . After the Hessian federal troops undertook a small punitive expedition to the Baden exclave Büsingen on July 21, 1849 and thus triggered a nine-day crisis between Switzerland and the German Confederation ( Büsinger trade ), Fromherz tried to reach an understanding with the neighboring Swiss cantons, which, however, referred to the competence of the central authorities.

He was elected to the Second Chamber in 1850 as a member of parliament for the districts of Waldkirch and Elzach , where he belonged to the group of moderately liberal members. From 1855 to 1863 he was a member of the First Chamber appointed by the Grand Duke . When the new liberal government under August Lamey dissolved the district governments in the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1864, he was given early retirement in October 1864.

Honors

literature

  • Johann Nepomuk Fromherz. In: Baden biographies . V. Teil, Heidelberg 1906, pp. 175-176 ( digitized version ).
  • Julius Dorneich : The train of the Herweghschen Legion and the memories of the Baden government commissioner Johann Nepomuk Fromherz about their end near Dossenbach on April 27, 1848. In: Das Markgräflerland , Heft 3/4, 1973, pp. 111-131.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 82-83.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the family comes from Görwihl and used to write Frommherz ; s. Dorneich p. 112 footnote 2.
  2. ↑ s. Dorneich pp. 111-112.
  3. ^ Constance was occupied by troops from the Grand Duchy of Hesse under Major General Schäffer-Bernstein .
  4. ^ Albert Leutenegger: The Büsinger Handel: 1849. In: Thurgauische contributions to patriotic history. Issue 63 (1926), pp. 21-24, doi : 10.5169 / seals-585265 .
personal data
SURNAME Fromherz, Johann Nepomuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden official and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1892
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau