Konrad Heilig

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Konrad Heilig (born November 22, 1817 in Pfullendorf ; † August 11, 1849 in Rastatt ) was a Baden revolutionary and freedom fighter in the Baden Revolution of 1848 .

Life

Konrad Heilig was born as the fifteenth and last child of a Pfullendorf city calculator. After training as a barber, the approximately 1.80 meter tall man joined the artillery of the Grand Ducal Baden . Soon he was a sergeant.

When the Baden War Minister General Hoffmann wanted to shoot the mutinous soldiers of the Rastatt Fortress with a large artillery on May 12, 1849 , Konrad Heilig, NCO of the fortress artillery, threw himself at the muzzle of the cannon. In the turmoil of the revolution after May 12, 1849, General Sigel appointed him commander of the fortress artillery and major . The giant matured into a decided revolutionary and was against handing the fortress over to the Prussian besiegers. After the capitulation, the Prussians made short work of the freedom fighters of the revolution of 1849 and carried out the death penalty on them.

When the trial court of Rastatt sentenced to death for "breach of loyalty and high treason", Konrad Heilig was shot in Rastatt on August 11, 1849 as the third of 19 revolutionaries. The then 32-year-old was shot ten times in the dry fortress moat in the area of ​​today's Hasenwäldeles.

Appreciation

In Karlsruhe, the “memorial stones for the shot freedom fighters of 1849” at the Kaiser Wilhelm I monument at the Mühlburger Tor have been reminding of the fate of the 27 freedom fighters of the Baden Revolution. The fifth plate from the left of the 28 memorial plates gives an explanation of Konrad Heilig. In his hometown Pfullendorf as well as in Rastatt a street bears his name. Also in Rastatt there is a memorial for those shot dead, as well as the "memorial for the freedom movements in German history" in the baroque residence. There Konrad Heilig's saber is shown in a showcase with exhibits about the Turkish booty.

Remarks

  1. ↑ His father wrote in his diary: "He was the tallest and most beautiful man in the Baden corps, 6 inch inches and one of the first and best canoniers."
  2. ↑ Hermann Kraemer: The memorial for those shot dead . In: Landkreis Rastatt (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch 1 . 1974
  3. ^ Rainer Wollenschneider: Saber of the revolutionary Konrad Heilig back in Rastatt. Memory of a great man . In: Rastatter Freiheitsbote, No. 16
  4. ↑ Rastatt Castle, Herrenstr. 18 [1]

literature

  • Wolfgang Duffner: Konrad Heilig , in: The dream of heroes. 12 obituaries for fighters of the Baden Revolution executed in the summer and autumn of 1849 . Schauenburg, Lahr 1997, ISBN 3-7946-0484-9 , pp. 87-95
  • Josef Schupp: A Pfullendorf victim of the May Revolution of 1849: Konrad Heilig (1817–1849) . In: Bodensee-Chronik 20 . 1931. 13, pp. 50-51
  • Rainer Wollenschneider: The saber of the revolutionary Konrad Heilig back in Rastatt : memory of a great man. In: Rastatter Freiheitsbote, # 16. Ed. Bundesarchiv (Germany) , branch memorial site for the freedom movements in German history, support association. Rastatt 2005
personal data
SURNAME Holy, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden revolutionary and freedom fighter
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfullendorf
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1849
Place of death Rastatt