Karl Schuchart
Karl August Michael Schuchart (born December 8, 1806 in Heiligenstadt ; † October 10, 1869 in Iserlohn ) was a member of the pre-parliament in 1848 and played a central role during the Iserlohn uprising in 1849 .
Life
Karl Schuchart was born in Heiligenstadt in Eichsfeld . After studying law and working as a judge, he became a judicial commissioner , d. H. Lawyer and Notary.
From 1842 he lived in Iserlohn and was soon one of the city's respected citizens. He resigned from the Catholic Church and became a co-founder of the German Catholic Church in Iserlohn, which soon had 300 members, especially from the working class. Before the congregation had its own minister, he appeared occasionally as a preacher.
After attending a session of the United State Parliament in Berlin in 1847 without being a member of the assembly, he was expelled from Berlin. After the start of the March Revolution , the Iserlohn city council elected him a member of the preliminary parliament . In the summer of 1848 he founded a political club in Iserlohn, which advocated a constitutional monarchy on a democratic basis. The main goal was to preserve the March achievements .
In April 1849, he and Carl Overweg and others signed a letter to the counterrevolutionary government in Berlin, calling on the government to resign, while at the same time affirming the Constitution of the Paul Church .
During the Iserlohn uprising in May 1849, Schuchart played an important role. At the beginning he warned the Landwehr men in vain not to refuse service because he feared that Iserlohn might be under siege. He belonged to a delegation that was supposed to negotiate with the Chief President in Munster after the outbreak of unrest. Before leaving, he published a notice in which the goals were made clear. It called for the drafting of the Landwehr men to be withdrawn, for the town to be renounced military occupation and for the affected Landwehr men to be given an amnesty. But this attempt at de-escalation failed.
Upon his return, moderate citizens urged him to chair the city's security committee. He saw this as a way of channeling the riot. He tried to supply the insurgents in the city with ammunition. However, his activity soon met with displeasure in more radical circles. On May 14th, he was threatened by an angry crowd. He asked them: "Shoot if you want."
After the suppression of the uprising, he was charged with high treason along with Carl Wilhelm Tölcke and others in Wesel , but was ultimately acquitted. Then he lived again as a lawyer in Iserlohn.
literature
- Julius Köster: The Iserlohn Revolution. Berlin, 1899
- Manfred Luda: At the birth of parliamentarism. Members of the County of Mark in stormy times (1848-1849) pp. 147–149 online version (PDF; 1.4 MB)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schuchart, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schuchart, Karl August Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Revolutionary 1848/49 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heiligenstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1869 |
| Place of death | Iserlohn |