Joseph Fickler
Joseph Fickler (born February 6, 1808 in Konstanz ; † November 26, 1865 ibid) was a democratic agitator of the Vormärz in the Grand Duchy of Baden and a politician during the Baden Revolution as a regional component of the March Revolution in almost all states of the German Confederation .
Life
Like his brother, the high school professor Karl Alois Fickler , Joseph Fickler came from a simple Tyrolean family. At first he was a businessman, founded a weekly paper in 1830 in the spirit of the liberal opposition at the time and became chairman of the citizens' committee in his hometown. As an autodidact , he made the “ Seeblätter ”, which he had been editing since 1836, into an influential organ of the liberal opposition and then of democracy . At the beginning of the revolution of 1848 Fickler was soon agitating for a republic. Suspected of being connected with the influx of German workers from France, perhaps with the French provisional government that led the second republic in France after the February revolution there , he was arrested in Karlsruhe on April 8 at the instigation of Karl Mathys , but acquitted in May 1849. By Offenburg People's Assembly (13 May 1849) elected to the National Committee, he proved itself during its deliberations in Karlsruhe as one of the most talented and most outspoken members, which both the haphazard seemingly revolutionary radicalism Struve and the hesitant-cautious attitude of Brentano's reluctant party .
Elected to the provisional government of the newly proclaimed Baden Republic on June 1, 1849 , he was captured and captured on June 3 in Stuttgart , where he had been sent to establish a link between the people and the armed forces of Württemberg and the Baden Revolutionary Party imprisoned at Hohenasperg fortress .
After the suppression of the revolution in Baden, he was released on bail of 1000 guilders and went into exile in Switzerland . He later went to England and from there to North America, where he appeared as a fierce advocate of slavery . After the Confederate defeat , he returned to his hometown of Constance and died there on November 26, 1865.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jakob Schneider: Josef Fickler. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
Marx / Engels on Fickler
As befits a staid, determined, imperturbable folk man, Joseph Fickler has a fat full-moon face, a thick roasted throat and corresponding belly size. All that is known from his previous life is that he won a livelihood with a carved work of art from the fifteenth century and with relics relating to the Council of Constance , by the travelers and foreign art lovers looking at those curiosities for money and bought "old-fashioned" souvenirs on the side, which Fickler, as he relates with considerable self-enjoyment, had repeatedly made "old-fashioned". His only acts during the revolution were, first, his arrest by Mathy after the pre-parliament and, second, his arrest by Römer in Stuttgart in June 1849; thanks to these arrests, he has happily passed the risk of compromising himself. The Württemberg democrats later gave him 1,000 guilders bail, whereupon Fickler went incognito to Thurgau and, to the great regret of the bailee, didn't let anyone hear from him. It cannot be denied that in the "Seebl Blätter" he happily translated the feelings and opinions of the lake farmers into printer's ink; Incidentally, with regard to his friend Ruge, he is of the opinion that studying makes a lot of studying stupid, which is why he warned his friend Goegg not to visit the library of the British Museum .
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Great Men of Exile , London 1852
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fickler, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Politician during the Baden Revolution |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constancy |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1865 |
| Place of death | Constancy |