Karl Wartenburg

Karl Wartenburg (born November 13, 1826 in Leipzig , † April 24, 1889 in Gera ) was a German writer and politician .

Life

Born as the alleged illegitimate son of a Count von Wartenburg, Wartenburg studied law in Leipzig after attending the Rutheneum high school in Gera . During his studies in 1847 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity . In May 1849 he joined a student volunteer corps to, participated in the battles for the defense of the constitution and fought in Rendsburg for national liberation of Schleswig-Holstein . In 1849 he was the editor of the Allgemeine political Geraer Volks-Zeitung and in the same year was sentenced to 2½ years for his participation in the revolution of 1848/49 , but was released earlier due to an amnesty . He became an employee of the gazebo . In 1851 he passed his law exam, but because of his criminal record, he concentrated on his activities as a writer and journalist . After he had been active in local politics in Gera, he was from 1871 to 1889 a member of the state parliament of the Principality of Reuss Younger Line , of which he was vice-president. He belonged to the German Progressive Party (DFP). From 1874 to 1884 he was the founder and first editor of the Geraischer Tageblatt .

Honors

• There is a memorial obelisk in Gera; a street was named after him.

Publications (selection)

• The fathers of the city. Leipzig 1859.
• New prophets. Leipzig 1863.
• On cloudy days. Leipzig 1868.
• The end justifies the means, socio-political novel from the present. Stuttgart 1874.
• The Emperor's actors. Leipzig 1878.
• "The lad is free." Novel from Germany's Sturm und Drangzeit. Varsel OK 1901.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 364-366.

Web links

• Works by Karl Wartenburg in the Gutenberg-DE project