Joseph Ignatz Peter

Joseph Ignatz Peter - lithograph 1849

Joseph Ignatz Peter (born January 15, 1789 in Achern ; † September 19, 1872 ibid) was a Baden official and participant in the Baden Revolution of 1848/49. In June 1849 he was briefly Minister of Justice in the Baden revolutionary government .

origin

Peter came from a widely ramified family in Achern since 1745. His father Franz Peter was a sugar manufacturer and beer brewer. Joseph Ignatz Peter's cousin Franz Josef Peter , as mayor of Achern, was also involved in the events of the March Revolution .

Life

After studying law and history in Freiburg im Breisgau , Heidelberg and Strasbourg , Peter entered the Baden civil service in 1812. In 1830 he became Ministerialrat in the Ministry of the Interior, in 1833 a senior court judge in Mannheim , and in 1848 a government director in Constance . In April 1848 he was suspended for high treason .

Peter had been part of the Hallgarten circle around Johann Adam von Itzstein since 1839 . In 1841 he was elected to the second chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly for the first time , but he was only able to take up his parliamentary office in 1845, as he had not previously been given leave of absence from civil service (see the Blittersdorf era ). In 1847 Peter took part in the Offenburg meeting .

In April 1848 he took part in the first Baden uprising as governor of the revolutionary republic in the Seekreis. After the collapse of the uprising, Peter fled to Switzerland . In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . From May 1848 to May 1849 Peter was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and was part of the radical Donnersberg faction . Peter also took part in the two other uprisings in Baden, from May to June 1849 he headed the revolutionary Ministry of Justice . On June 3, 1849, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly .

In 1850 he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment and a fine in absentia, and in 1862 Peter was given amnesty.

literature

Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer: Joseph Ignaz Peter, Government Director and Revolutionary: Lecture from September 23, 1998 in the Baldreit City Museum in Baden-Baden , private print 1998
Karl Jörger: Fates of Former Forty-Eighters - Joseph Ignaz Peter (1789-1872) . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 43rd annual volume 1963, pp. 248–249 online
Gerhard Lötsch: On the history of the Peter family in Achern . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Mittelbaden, 80th Annual Volume, 2000, pp. 394–395 online
Eugen Beck: The revolution 1848/49 and the Achern family Peter . In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 35th issue: 45 years, 1910–1955, 1955, p. 9 online

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)

personal data
SURNAME	Peter, Joseph Ignatz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Participant in the Baden Revolution 1848/49
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH	Achern
DATE OF DEATH	September 19, 1872
Place of death	Achern

[1] Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)