Johann Philipp Abresch

Johann Philipp Abresch, contemporary painting

Johann Philipp Abresch (born March 3, 1804 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , † August 1, 1861 ibid) was a German democrat . He became known because he was the first to produce a black, red and gold flag with this color sequence from top to bottom, which he wore at the Hambach Festival in 1832 .

Life

Abresch, farmer, businessman and city councilor of Neustadt, which was called Neustadt an der Haardt until 1935 , was one of the signatories of the appeal for the Hambach Festival. This was held as a large rally of the South German Democrats and Republicans from May 27, 1832 on the then ruinous Hambach Castle . Abresch, as a city councilor, protested against the previous ban on assembly by the Bavarian government.

For the festival Abresch made a German tricolor in the colors black-red-gold and provided it with the inscription "Germany's rebirth". With the flag, which represents the origin of the German national flag, Abresch resorted to the colors of the original fraternity, which had already been used in the wars of liberation against Napoleon , and was the first to arrange them in the order commonly used today. As the main flag of the national festival, Abresch carried it during the march from Neustadt market square to the castle and planted it there on the tower.

Abresch was then involved in Kaiserslautern in the protest letter from the Palatinate Democrats against the federal decisions of June 28, 1832. This resulted in his arrest and earned him a prison term. He was arrested again in 1835.

During the time of the Palatinate Republic , Abresch was re-elected to the city council of his hometown Neustadt in 1848. During the parade to mark the anniversary of the Hambach Festival in 1848, he again carried his flag.

family

Original flag made by Abresch

Abresch's grandson Eugen (1867–1952) made headlines in 1914 because of speculative deals that led to a public prosecutor's investigation and to his resignation from the Bavarian parliament . In 1933, Eugen Abresch hit the headlines again without his intervention when two men, one of the poachers and a police officer, were killed in a shooting between two poachers and four law enforcement officers in his hunting district in the Ordenswald on the boundary of what is now Neustadt's Speyerdorf district .

The painter Christel Abresch (born January 27, 1931; † March 2011) was married to a grandson of Eugen Abresch's brother and was awarded the 2006 cultural prize of the city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse.

The original flag from 1832 has survived to this day, but the red of the middle stripe in particular has almost faded. For generations it was kept in Abresch's family; it even had to be hidden during the Nazi era . Today it is an integral part of the permanent exhibition “Up, up to the castle” at Hambach Castle .

literature

Edgar Süss: The Palatinate in the "Black Book" . A personal historical contribution to the history of the Hambach Festival, early Palatine and German liberalism (= Heidelberg publications on the country's history and geography . No. 3 ). Verlag Winter, Heidelberg 1956, p. 32 .

Web links

Original flag from 1832 , exhibition at Hambach Castle, on Demokratiegeschichte.eu

Room 5 with exhibits from the Hambach Festival, on the website of the City Museum Villa Böhm

On the 150th anniversary of JP Abresch's death (August 1, 1861) , 2011 on the Hambach Castle website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Johann Philipp Abresch and his first "original flag" in black, red and gold. (No longer available online.) Neustadt.eu, archived from the original on November 1, 2016 ; accessed on November 1, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Domestic. In: General newspaper from and for Bavaria. Google Books, January 23, 1835, p. 94 , accessed on November 1, 2016 (“Sessions of the Königl. Zuchtpolizeigerichts Frankenthal”).
↑ Wolfgang Kauer: Shots in the lungs . In: The Rheinpfalz , Mittelhaardter Rundschau . Ludwigshafen January 21, 2014, p. 24 .
↑ Awards and honors. neustadt.eu, accessed on November 1, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Abresch, Johann Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Democrat
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1861
Place of death	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

[neustadt.eu-1-1] Johann Philipp Abresch and his first "original flag" in black, red and gold. (No longer available online.) Neustadt.eu, archived from the original on November 1, 2016 ; accessed on November 1, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[allgemeine-zeitung-2] Domestic. In: General newspaper from and for Bavaria. Google Books, January 23, 1835, p. 94 , accessed on November 1, 2016 (“Sessions of the Königl. Zuchtpolizeigerichts Frankenthal”).

[rheinpfalz_2014-01-21-3] Wolfgang Kauer: Shots in the lungs . In: The Rheinpfalz , Mittelhaardter Rundschau . Ludwigshafen January 21, 2014, p. 24 .

[neustadt.eu-2-4] Awards and honors. neustadt.eu, accessed on November 1, 2016 .