Julius von Dieskau

Julius Otto Heinrich von Dieskau (born March 1, 1798 in Plauen , † April 27, 1872 ibid) was a German lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Saxon state parliament and a representative of Saxony in the Frankfurt preliminary parliament and the national assembly .

Live and act

The son of the Saxon captain Carl Wilhelm von Dieskau and his wife Theresia born. of Feilitzsch studied from 1815 at the University of Leipzig the law . After completing this degree in 1818, he became the patrimonial court director and lawyer in his hometown of Plauen in 1821 . In 1836/37 he represented the 17th urban electoral district in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament and was the only oppositional member of the state parliament alongside Carl Gotthelf Todt in 1836/37 . As a result, he was a member of the Hallgartenkreis from 1839 to 1847 . In the revolutionary year of 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt pre-parliament and was elected on May 13 in the second vote in the 9th Saxon electoral district (Döbeln) with 34 out of 67 votes as a candidate of the Fatherland Association as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . There he joined the Donnersberg and Nürnberger Hof factions . He was a member of the constitutional committee and in this capacity he reported on the steps that could lead to the abolition of casinos and lotteries. He advocated a federal republic with strong central power based on the United States, which should be ruled by a president. He was a member of the Landtag in 1849/50 as a member of the newly formed 41st constituency. Here he represented the democratic demands of the March Revolution , as the representatives of the Paulskirche had done at the height of their power, although this had long been exceeded. After the May uprising in Dresden , he called on the Members of Parliament, the Speech from the Throne to reject the king, in the uprising as a state and high treason had been referred. From 1863 Dieskau was a member of the Protestant church council of Plauen and from 1865 to 1869 a member of the Plauen city council.

Honors

In recognition of his work, he was made honorary citizen of the city of Plauen in 1871.

Works

• Draft of a democratic-republican constitution for the United States of Germany , Frankfurt am Main 1848.

literature

• Thorsten Tonndorf: The Saxon members of the Frankfurt Pre- and National Assembly . Diss. Dresden 1993, p. 164f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Thorsten Tonndorf: The Saxon members of the Frankfurt pre- and national assembly . Diss. Dresden 1993, p. 164f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 95.