Joseph Martin Reichard

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Joseph Martin Reichard (1869)
Announcement of the provisional government of the Palatinate on the separation of the Palatinate from Bavaria, 1849

Joseph Martin Reichard (born September 23, 1803 in Untergrehweiler ; † May 14, 1872 in Philadelphia ) was a German politician and revolutionary .

Life

Reichard was a son of the notary and mayor of Speyer Johann Franz Reichard (1765-1838) and his wife Maria Jacobina Seuffert. He attended grammar school in Speyer and from the winter semester 1821/22 studied law in Heidelberg , Würzburg , Erlangen , Dijon and Paris . In Heidelberg he belonged to the Corps Rhenania from 1821 , in Erlangen he became a member of the Arminia Erlangen fraternity in 1823 . In 1826 he joined the law firm of Frankenthal lawyer Georg Jakob Stockinger , where he came into contact with liberal ideas. In 1831 he became a notary in Kusel , in 1837 in Speyer (until 1849). In Speyer he was also a member of the city council.

Reichard became involved in the democratic movement early on. On April 30, 1848, he was elected for the constituency of Kirchheimbolanden in the Frankfurt National Assembly, where he belonged to the " Club Donnersberg " on the far left. In 1849 Reichard was one of the main operators of the Palatinate uprising (imperial constitution campaign) and was elected to the "State Committee for Defense and Implementation of the Imperial Constitution" in May 1849 and President and War Minister of the Provisional Government of the Palatinate on May 17, 1849. After the uprising was put down, he fled to Switzerland and on to the United States. The Palatinate Court of Appeal in Zweibrücken sentenced him to death in absentia in 1851 for high treason and treason .

In Philadelphia Reichard settled as a hotel owner, then worked again as a notary and obtained American citizenship. In 1850 he was co-editor of the daily newspaper "Der Volksvertreter". Most recently he lived as a farmer in Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania). Reichard was socially and charitable in a variety of ways. He was a member of the committee for the establishment of a German hospital in Philadelphia, a member of the board of directors of the German Society in Philadelphia and a member of the German Association for the Support of Needy Emigrants.

swell

  • Indictment files, drawn up by the K. General State Procuratorate of the Palatinate, together with the verdict of the Prosecution Chamber of the K. Court of Appeal of the Palatinate in Zweibrücken on June 29, 1850, in the investigation against Martin Reichard, dismissed notary in Speyer, and 332 consorts because of armed rebellion against armed power, high treason and state treason, etc., Zweibrücken 1850

literature

  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical Handbook of the Members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 275
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 28-29.
  • Roland Paul: Notary Joseph Martin Reichard (1803–1872). President of the Provisional Government of the Palatinate in 1849. Descendant of an old Frankenthal family. In: Frankenthal once and now 1/2 1998, pp. 43–47

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 28-29.
personal data
SURNAME Reichard, Joseph Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Untergrehweiler
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1872
Place of death Philadelphia