Karl Petermann

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Karl Petermann

August Karl Heinrich Ludwig Petermann , also Carl Petermann (born March 26, 1807 in Waren (Müritz) , † September 23, 1866 in Strelitz ) was a German lawyer and judge . In the revolution in Mecklenburg (1848) he played a prominent role as a democratic leader in Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Life

Karl Petermann, the only son of the doctor Johann Friedrich Petermann (1761–1833) from his second marriage to the landowner's daughter Christiane Friederike, b. von Schuckmann (* 1781), spent his childhood in Waren. He attended the Carolinum grammar school (Neustrelitz) and passed his Abitur here in 1827. He then studied law, first at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Jena, and then again in Berlin . 1827 enrolled him at the University of Rostock for jurisprudence . After the examination, he was in 1832 in Rostock Dr. jur. PhD .

Petermann was 1832-1833 initially lawyer and councilor (senator) in Malchin . From there he successfully applied as mayor and city judge in Wesenberg in 1834 , but resigned the mayor's office in 1842 after repeated unjustified criticism of his administration and from then on only worked as city judge and lawyer there. In March 1847 he moved to Strelitz as a magistrate and city judge .

In the 1848 movement, Petermann quickly developed into the leader of the democrats in Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Petermann was a member of the constituent assembly of MPs for Mecklenburg (constituency: Feldberg) in 1848/49 and was an active speaker in parliament. From the end of 1848 it worked in the constitutional committee and was directly involved there with Karl Türk in the drafting of the constitution. On September 7th, 1848, the people's assembly in Strelitz elected him deputy chairman and deputy of a delegation that brought Grand Duke Georg the democratic demands of the people's assembly. Petermann appeared there as spokesman and negotiator between the Democrats and the arch-conservative Grand Duke of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz region. Petermann attended the Second Democrats 'Congress in Berlin in October 1848 and was also among the Mecklenburgers invited / invited to the Braunschweig Democrats' Congress in 1850 (June 13-15, 1850), where he canceled his participation due to the developments in Mecklenburg.

Together with Daniel Sanders and Ludwig Roloff , Petermann was the editor of the democratic papers for free nationality (1848) that appeared in Neustrelitz .

In 1850, Petermann was one of the few initiated into Carl Schurz's plans to free Gottfried Kinkel from the Spandau citadel . On November 5, 1850, he actively supported Schurz and Kinkel's escape through Mecklenburg to Rostock . He was therefore quickly under suspicion, but his involvement in the escape could not be proven. Nevertheless, after the failure of the revolution in Mecklenburg in November 1850, he was suspended and relieved of office on Johannis 1851. Politically, Petermann lived the years until his death as a lawyer in Strelitz. He died at the age of 57 in the year of the German War .

Karl Petermann had been married to Auguste von Flatow, a landowner's daughter from Pomerania, since 1836. Among his five children, the second-born daughter (Henriette Friederike Sophie) Caroline (* 1839; † 1888 in St. Petersburg ) is significant, who is the high school teacher who is known today primarily through his collection of "Mecklenburgische Volkssagen" (4 volumes. 1858–1862) and publicist Albert Niederhöffer (1828–1868) was married. Together with this daughter, Petermann contributed to Niederhöffer's collection of sagas. Denunciations by the son-in-law brought the Mecklenburg democrats into distress again in the 1860s and ended in a family rift.

Works

  • Car. Frid. Aug. Petermanni varnensis Commentatio de praeceptis juris romanis circa crimen vis, in certamine civium academiae Rostochiensis praemio eiusdem academiae impensis constituto ex sententia illustris jureconsultorum ordinis ornata . Rostock 1832.
  • with Ernst Langfeldt: A few words at the instigation of Mayor Langfeldt's criticism of the so-called evidence of evidence in the investigation process, which was published in Güstrow . Neustrelitz, Neubrandenburg 1839.
  • On the reform question. Flying word . Neustrelitz 1848.
  • A few words from the city magistrate to the rural workers . 1848.
  • On Mecklenburg Peasant Law . Neubrandenburg 1853.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7484 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Dissertation: De praeceptis iuris Romani circa crimen vis
  3. ^ Moritz Wiggers ; Peter Starsy: Through Mecklenburg to freedom ... - Gottfried Kinkel's liberation. In: Neubrandenburger Mosaik, Vol. 24 (2000), pp. 85-159.
  4. ^ Entry in the Erik Amburger database
  5. ↑ Saying No. 218, 220, 225, 242, 257, 276.
  6. ^ Ralf Wendt: A Mecklenburg espionage case from the year 1863. In: Stier und Greif. Schwerin 6 (1996). Pp. 47-52. --- ders .: The legend journalist Albert Niederhöffer. A fate in the disputes of its time. - In: 1848 - the revolutionary events in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. - Rostock (?), 1998. - pp. 68-76.
personal data
SURNAME Petermann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petermann, Carl; Petermann, August Karl Heinrich Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge; democratic reformer in Mecklenburg-Strelitz
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Goods (Müritz)
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1866
Place of death Strelitz