Karl Friedrich Bauer

Karl Friedrich Bauer (born March 11, 1827 in Mönchzell ; † 1889 Milwaukee ) was one of the leading figures in the Baden Revolution of 1848/49 in Kraichgau .

Life

Karl Bauer was born the son of the school teacher Johann Michael Bauer (1798-1851) and Johanna nee Reichert (1797-1854).

After attending the high school in Eppingen , he studied Protestant theology at the University of Heidelberg from 1844 to 1846 . From 1846 to 1848 he worked as a clerk in Hoffenheim and then in Sinsheim . Bauer was involved as an organizer on the Easter Monday procession of the Sinsheim irregulars , consisting of master craftsmen, journeymen and day laborers, to Heidelberg on April 24, 1848. The group of rebels was disarmed by the vigilante in Heidelberg and Bauer was on the run in Langenbrückenarrested. However, he was able to escape and settled in Switzerland, where he joined the group around Gustav Struve . This crossed the Baden border on September 21, 1848 and proclaimed the "German Republic" in Lörrach . Bauer had the function of an orderly officer . After the defeat at Staufen im Breisgau , he was arrested like many others and was remanded in custody in Rastatt and Bruchsal from October 1848 to June 1849 . Liberated when the May Revolution broke out in 1849, he returned to the Kraichgau as war and recruiting commissioner. In this position he removed mayors and officials who remained loyal to the old regime . With a contingent of the Sinsheimer Volkswehr he took part in the fighting on the Neckar . After the defeat of the revolutionary army, Bauer fled to Switzerland. The court in Mannheim sentenced him on March 30, 1850 in absentia to eight years in prison.

After working in Aargau , Zurich and Geneva , he emigrated to America in 1852 and initially became a pharmacist in New York . From 1885 to 1889 he worked as a journalist in Pittsburgh and then until his death in Milwaukee.

literature

• The Rhine-Neckar area and the revolution of 1848/49. Revolutionaries and their opponents. Edited by the working group of archives in the Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998 ( ISBN 3-929366-64-9 ) pp. 71–72.