Julius Berends

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Julius Berends

Julius Berends (born April 30, 1817 in Kyritz , † June 17, 1891 in Frauenfeld , Switzerland ) was a German-American democratic politician and political publicist.

Life

Berends originally studied theology . He had to give up hope of a church or school position, however, because he had his trial sermon, which the responsible consistory considered communist, printed. Instead, Berends became a teacher in the craftsmen's association in Berlin. He also learned the printing trade. In order to open his own workshop, however, he needed citizenship in Berlin. Since his activity as a teacher in the handicrafts association was viewed as too political, a tacit agreement was reached. Berends gave up his teaching activity and in return received citizenship in Berlin. Since then, his professional basis has been a partnership in a book printing company. From this material basis, he became a member of the Berlin city council in 1847. During the March Revolution he took part in the barricade fighting of March 18, 1848. In 1848 Berends was elected as a democratically minded member of the Prussian National Assembly. As such, on June 8, 1848, he submitted a motion that the National Assembly should resolve “ to declare on record in recognition of the revolution that the fighters of March 18 and 19 would have done something for the fatherland. “The application was rejected, but it contributed significantly to the end of Ludolf Camphausen's government . After the National Assembly was dissolved, he also moved into the second chamber of the Prussian Landtag in 1849 and remained the leader of the Berlin People's Party until its dissolution some time later. When the meanwhile anti-revolutionary government imposed the state of siege in Berlin, Berends was one of those MPs, along with Benedikt Waldeck , Johann Jacoby and others, who successfully applied for the state of siege to be lifted in parliament. The House of Representatives followed the request. This was the trigger for the dissolution of the second chamber, dated April 27, 1849. During the military enforcement, Berends was attacked by a soldier with a bayonet, but was not injured. After being briefly arrested, Berends emigrated to the United States in 1853 . In America he first worked as a merchant in San Antonio (Texas). He later founded a German-English school. From 1861 Berends was an American citizen. In 1875 he returned to Prussia. In the eighties he emigrated to Switzerland, where he also died.

Fonts

  • Lectures on pleasure and public festivals. Held in the Berlin Craftsmen Association . Berlin 1846
  • Relief of the needs of the working classes . Leipzig 1845
  • What we want: an illumination of the two Berlin protests . Berlin 1845
  • No freedom of conscience without freedom of teaching in the Church . Berlin 1845.
  • Political creed . Berlin 1848
  • Jesus with the tax collectors and sinners. Sermon on Luca 15, 1-10 delivered as an election sermon in Lindow, Sunday June 23, 1844 . Leipzig 1844

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. after Wolfgang J. Mommsen : 1848. The unwanted revolution. The revolutionary movements in Europe 1830–1849 . Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-10-050606-5 , p. 205
personal data
SURNAME Berends, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American democratic politician and political publicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyritz
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1891
Place of death Frauenfeld , Switzerland