Karl Eduard Bauernschmid

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Karl Eduard Bauernschmid (born April 20, 1801 in Himberg near Vienna , † May 6, 1875 in Vienna) was an Austrian civil servant , politician and journalist .

Life

In 1819 he was a member of the Vienna fraternity, which was banned by the police in 1820 . After a few years as an intern at the Vienna magistrate and studying law at the University of Vienna between 1830 and 1831, he entered the civil service, was in the service of the Mainz information office from 1833 to 1835 and was a secret agent in Paris and from 1835 to 1848 book censor in Graz . In 1848 he worked for the Viennese revolutionary magazine The Radical . After his brief activity in the Vienna Citizens' Committee and as a member of theFrankfurt National Assembly , he joined the press office in Vienna in 1849 . There he mainly reported on the various world exhibitions of the next few years and primarily wrote articles for the business section. At his mediation is Michael Etienne as an employee for press come. From 1852 to 1854 he was Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce .

Political career

In March 1848 he was secretary of the provisional citizens' committee in Vienna (among other things seconded to the Ministry of the Interior for the purpose of setting up a security committee). From September 11, 1848 to April 11, 1849, Bauernschmid was a member of the National Assembly of Frankfurt for the 18th constituency of Austria under the Enns and Klosterneuburg . He belonged to the parliamentary group Deutscher Hof , or the parliamentary group of the left . They wanted to achieve a democratic republic in which universal, equal, direct suffrage prevailed and all nationalities had equal rights. As a member of the Left Party , he was also a member of the Central March Association . From 1861 to 1863 he was a councilor in Vienna.

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  1. ^ Peter Kaupp: Fraternity members in the Paulskirche