Karl Ludwig Ferdinand Blanckmeister

Karl Ludwig Ferdinand Blanckmeister (* 1819 in Langenbach (Vogtland) , † 1883 in New York ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Born the son of a pastor , Blanckmeister studied law in Leipzig from 1834 to 1841 after attending grammar school in Plauen . During his studies in 1840 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Kochei . After graduating, he worked as a lawyer in Adorf . During the revolution of 1848/49 he was involved as a member of the Democratic Association as a popular speaker together with Wilhelm Adolph von Trützschler for the revolutionary movement. In June 1848, together with Fritz Rödiger, he was the organizer of the first large popular assembly in the Vogtland . Blanckmeister became mayor of Mühltroff and was elected to the Saxon state parliament in 1849 . During the May Uprising he was a member of the Provisional Government; from mid-April 1849 he became a member of the Social Democratic Club , a small splinter group of the state parliament, which in Saxony operated under this name for the first time. After the revolution had failed, he was arrested together with Roediger and ten years ' imprisonment convicted. On the night of July 28, 1851, he and Rödiger managed to escape . On his escape, he was briefly hidden in Jena by the Germania Jena fraternity before escaping to the USA via Weimar , Göttingen and Bremen , where he worked as a newspaper correspondent and later as a photographer .

literature

• Fritz Rödiger : From my prison and escape life . In: The Gazebo . Issue 1, 1874, pp. 15 ( Full text [ Wikisource ] - Rödiger describes the mutual escape, in the spelling "Blankmeister").
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 95-96.