Karl Biedermann (politician)

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Karl Biedermann (around 1845)

Friedrich Karl Biedermann (born September 25, 1812 in Leipzig ; † March 5, 1901 there ) was a German philosopher and politician.

Life

When Biedermann was six years old, his mother married the civil servant Martin from Breitenhof . She moved to him in the Ore Mountains , so that Karl Biedermann grew up in the seclusion of a remote hammer mill settlement in the low mountain range.

Biedermann studied philosophy at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg from 1830 to 1834, and already in Leipzig he became a member of the democratically minded Old Leipzig fraternity . After receiving his doctorate , he worked as a private lecturer from 1835 and as an associate professor in Leipzig from 1838 . He taught political science .

Because of his liberal publications and his commitment to civil rights , he came increasingly into conflict with the censorship authorities from the 1840s onwards , and in 1847 he was charged with libel of majesty .

In the course of the March Revolution in 1848 , Biedermann took part in the pre-parliament , then became secretary of the Fifties Committee and belonged to several preparatory commissions for the Frankfurt National Assembly . There he was from May 18, 1848 to May 26, 1849 also a member of parliament for Zwickau . Biedermann belonged to the Württemberger Hof , Augsburger Hof and Nürnberger Hof factions . From May 22, 1848 he was a member of the Protocol Commission, from June 3, 1848 Secretary of Parliament. He resigned this office on May 14, 1849, when he was elected first Vice President of Parliament. He was also a member of the Imperial Deputation .

After resigning from the Paulskirche , he took part in the Gotha post-parliament in June 1849 and was a member of the Saxon state parliament until 1850 .

In 1851 he was charged with insulting foreign rulers to imprisonment convicted and removed from office in 1853 finally as a professor. That, in turn, brought him to move to Weimar . Then Biedermann worked as a publicist and editor of various newspapers. After 1859 he also became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Germania . In 1865 he was again appointed associate professor in Leipzig. In 1869 he was again a member of the Saxon state parliament, in 1871 he entered the Reichstag (German Empire) for the National Liberal Party , of which he was one of the founders in Saxony .

Biedermann was a member of the Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms in Leipzig. He gave numerous lectures at the Leipzig Commercial Association. For the history of the history seminar at the University of Leipzig it is also significant that he wanted to set up a cultural history institute. With his request to establish an independent cultural-historical institute, which methodologically contrasted with the prevailing political history , he met with rejection at the philosophical faculty. Georg Voigt was one of those who rejected this type of institute . The establishment of such an institute took place a few years after his death by Karl Lamprecht in 1909.

Fonts

literature

  • Richard J. Bazillion: Modernizing Germany. Karl Biedermann's career in the Kingdom of Saxony. 1835-1901 . (= American university studies, Ser. 9; History; Vol. 84). Lang, New York et al. 1990, ISBN 0-8204-1185-X
  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , pp. 98-99.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 96-97.
  • Herbert Helbig:  Biedermann, Friedrich Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 223 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Joachim Müller: Friedrich Karl Biedermann . In: Men of the Revolution . Verlag das Europäische Buch, Westberlin 1970, pp. 441-462 ISBN 3-920303-46-6
  • Harald Lönnecker : Friedrich Carl Biedermann (1812–1901) , in: Gerald Wiemers (Hrsg.): Leipziger Lebensbilder. The city of Leipzig when it was first mentioned 1000 years ago 1015–2015 (Sächsische Lebensbilder, Vol. 7 = Sources and research on Saxon history, Vol. 39), Leipzig / Stuttgart 2015, pp. 43–61.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Biedermann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 96.
  2. ↑ Horst Grimm, Leo Besser-Walzel: The corporations. Handbook on history, dates, facts, people . Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-524-69059-9
personal data
SURNAME Biedermann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biedermann, Friedrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdR, publicist and professor of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1901
Place of death Leipzig