Joseph Savoye

Henri Charles Joseph Savoye (born December 13, 1802 in Zweibrücken , † April 28, 1869 in London ) was a Franco-German lawyer, journalist and politician.

Life

From October 1818 Savoye studied law in Heidelberg and Würzburg and became a member of the Corps Hassia in Heidelberg . After completing his studies, he returned to his hometown Zweibrücken and was an advocate at the appellate court there in the 1820s. In addition, he began to be active politically and journalistically and became an employee of the " German Tribune ". On January 29, 1832, he took part in the school festival in Zweibrücken. With Georg August Wirth , Friedrich Schüler and Ferdinand Geib (1804–1834) he formed the provisional committee of the Press and Fatherland Association . In mid-February 1832 he traveled to Paris and there was probably the impetus for founding the “German Fatherland Association” in Paris. After his return he took part in the Hambach Festival . He was suspended from his post for six months because of disregard and insult to the authorities.

In July 1832 he emigrated to Paris. For inciting to overthrow the state constitution and insulting public authorities, he was sentenced in contumaciam by the Assisen in Landau to ten years' expulsion from the country and loss of civil and political rights. In December, he was formally dismissed and struck from the bar for refusing to sign a lapel of non-affiliation. In Paris, Savoye was the driving force behind the opposition forces. He was a member of the German committee, worked for the Fatherland Association and was later a member of the German National Association. He also worked as a journalist again and gave lectures on German literature at the Collège Louis-le-Grand . Although he was included in the list of Paris lawyers, he did not receive French citizenship until 1848.

On April 12, 1848, Savoye was appointed envoy of the French Republic in Frankfurt am Main . He returned to France in September and was elected to the French National Assembly on May 13, 1849 for the Haut-Rhin department . At the same time he supported the uprising in Baden. In 1851 he voted against the coup of Napoleon III. Expelled from France, he went into exile, first to Belgium, then to London, where he was most recently employed as an examiner at military schools and from there continued to work on the "Siècle" in Paris, particularly with studies on international law.

literature

• Edgar Süß: The Palatinate in the "Black Book". A personal historical contribution to the history of the Hambach Festival, early Palatinate and German liberalism . Heidelberg 1956, p. 111f.

Web links

Wikisource: Joseph Savoye  - Sources and full texts

• democracy history.eu