Karl Huetlin

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Karl Hüetlin (with hat) and Gebhard Leyherr as students in a double portrait by Friedrich Mosbrugger (1823)

Karl Hüetlin (born July 8, 1806 in Konstanz ; † January 27, 1861 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German lawyer and mayor of Konstanz from 1832 to 1849. He played an important role in the revolution of 1848/49 .

Life

Hüetlin had studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg and had worked as a legal intern in his home town of Constance since the beginning of 1832. He took part in the Hambach Festival in May 1832 and was elected Mayor of Constance on August 10 of the same year.

Mayor Hüetlin had spoken out against the Hecker move and instead initiated a vigilante group in 1848; he commissioned Franz Sigel to set up a free corps of 400 men. Thereby he prevented a wider participation of the Konstanzer in the Hecker train. After the crackdown on the revolution, he was suspended from office in July 1849 and imprisoned shortly afterwards. After his acquittal in October 1849, he finally resigned from the office of mayor, renouncing his pension, and moved to Freiburg with his two sons Joseph and Ernst.

As the successor to Karl Steiner , who voluntarily resigned at the end of 1860 , Hüetlin was elected mayor of Constance a second time in January 1861, but died completely unexpectedly that same month.

Honors

The Hüetlinstraße at Kreuzlinger Hauptzoll in Constance is named after Karl Hüetlin .

literature

  • Elmar B. Fetscher: The Constance election of 1846 and the reprimand for disobedience against Mayor Hüetlin , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 101st year 1983, pp. 99–112 ( digitized version )
  • Elmar B. Fetscher: The Mayor of Konstanz Karl Hüetlin and his time (1832–1849) . Constance 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] "Marliese Hermann: Investigations on the Revolution of 1848/19 in Constance"
  2. ^ "Chronicle of the City of Constance"
predecessor Office successor
Karl Steiner Lord Mayor of Konstanz
1832 - 1849 		Jakob Stadler
personal data
SURNAME Huetlin, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huetlin, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of Konstanz
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1861
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau