Karl Heinrich Brüggemann

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Karl Heinrich Brüggemann (born August 29, 1810 in Hopsten near Münster / W. , † July 1, 1887 in Cologne ) was a German journalist, fraternity member and one of the activists at the Hambach Festival from May 27 to 30, 1832.

Karl Heinrich Brüggemann (contemporary photography)

Life

Brüggemann was born the son of a doctor. He passed his Abitur in 1829 and in the same year enrolled at the University of Bonn in the subject of camera sciences (today law and political sciences). In Bonn he joined the Germania fraternity in 1829 . After two semesters he moved to Heidelberg , mainly because he believed there would be greater opportunities for the ideas of the July Revolution of 1830 coming over from France . There he joined the Fäßlianer fraternity in 1829 and the Franconia fraternity in 1831 .

Brüggemann devoted himself to studying the writings of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and internalized his credo , according to which “ the revolution [...] should not be a right, but a duty. “He became an employee of Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer , the editor of the“ Westbote ”, a successor to Siebenpfeiffer's magazine Deutsche Tribüne . Formerly he was editor of the time Brüggemann became a member of the German Press and Fatherland Association , to whose members he spoke for the first time publicly at a banquet in Weinheim in early 1832 . The press association was founded on January 29, 1832 and subsequently spread rapidly across Germany.

Brüggemann was actively involved in the Hambach Festival. He led a group of around 200 Heidelberg students and held two fiery speeches during the four-day festival in which he demanded that freedom and unity in Germany be enforced by force if necessary. Brüggemann also took part in the discussions of a smaller group that tried to organize the development of revolutionary structures after the Hambach Festival.

In June 1832 Brüggemann gave a public speech in Hanau and was then arrested by the Bavarian state police. However, he received permission to travel to Mannheim and edit the magazine "Wächter am Rhein" there. A month later he was arrested again and taken to Berlin , where he was in custody until the beginning of 1834. In 1835 Brüggemann was relocated to Poznan and a year later he was sentenced to death in a court case, which, however, was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment by the supreme court. In 1840 he was pardoned by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV .

After his release he took up studies in law and was successful in the professional economics habilitation. However, Prussia denied him access to an academic career, probably because of his revolutionary biography. For this reason Brüggemann turned to a journalistic activity and in 1845 became head of the Kölnische Zeitung ; he held this position until 1854. Under pressure from the Prussian government, he had to give up this position and then continue working as a simple editor.

In 1848 he ran unsuccessfully in his home district of Tecklenburg against the later Mainz bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler for the German National Assembly . Brüggemann died at the age of 77 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne .

Works

  • Critical illumination of List's system of political economy [habilitation thesis]. Berlin, 1842.
  • Prussia's occupation in the German and Prussian state development . 1843
  • The German customs union and the protection system . 1845
  • My leadership of the Kölnische Zeitung 1846–1855 . Leipzig, 1855.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer: The sincere and well-mannered Swiss messenger . tape 29 . printed and published by Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer, Aarau 1832, p. 91 ( in Der Bayrische Volksfreund ).
personal data
SURNAME Brüggemann, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and fraternity member
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Hops
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1887
Place of death Cologne