Karl Minnigerode

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Karl Friedrich Ernst Minnigerode (born August 6, 1814 in Arnsberg , † October 13, 1894 in Alexandria (Virginia) ) was a German revolutionary and preacher.

Life

Minnigerode's family was part of the Hessian official elite. The father Ludwig Minnigerode was head of the provincial administration of the Duchy of Westphalia in Arnsberg , which at that time belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Later he was president of the grand ducal court in Darmstadt .

Karl Minnigerode attended high school in Darmstadt, where he belonged to Georg Büchner's close circle of friends . He later began studying law at the University of Giessen . Minnigerode became a member of the Old Giessener Burschenschaft Germania in 1832 and after its dissolution as a result of the Frankfurt guard storm from 1833 of the Corps Palatia . On August 1, 1834, he was arrested during the distribution of the Hessian country messenger edited by Friedrich Ludwig Weidig and Büchner in Gießen and imprisoned in the old monastery barracks prison in Friedberg . In June 1835 he was transferred to the detention center in Darmstadt. Büchner referred several times in his letters to Minnigerode's detention. Because of these incidents, the father was retired early and against his will in 1834.

After his release he went to the United States, first teaching ancient languages ​​in Philadelphia, then professor of classical literature at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia . He married Mary Carter, with whom he had 9 children. From 1848 he was a priest of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America , from 1853 in Norfolk (Virginia) . Most recently, he served as rector of St. Paul's Church in Richmond (Virginia) until 1889 . During the Civil War he was closely associated with President Jefferson Davis and General Lee as a clergyman .

Worth knowing

In the 1979 DEFA film Addio, piccola mia about the life of Georg Büchner from 1979, Minnigerode is played by Lars Jung .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 112-113.
  • Ulrich Klemke: German political emigration to America 1815–1848. Biographical Lexicon . Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2007, p. 98

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minnigerode, Ludwig . In: LAGIS : Hessian Biography ; As of September 8, 2019.
  2. ^ Thomas Ormond: Dignity of judges and loyalty to the government: service law, political activity and disciplining of judges in Prussia, Baden and Hesse 1866-1918. Frankfurt 1994, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Minnigerode, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minnigerode, Karl Friedrich Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary and preacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1894
Place of death Alexandria (Virginia)