Laurenz Wilhelm Fischer

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Laurenz Wilhelm Fischer (born October 20, 1810 in Hildburghausen , † July 19, 1866 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Origin, education and early years

Fischer came from a Thuringian Honoratiorenfamilie and the son of was district president of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg belonging Principality of Birkenfeld Laurenz Hannibal Fischer born (1784-1868) and his wife Caroline Fischer (1789-1847). He attended high school in Speyer from 1826 to 1828 and studied law at the universities of Heidelberg , Jena and Göttingen from 1829 to 1832 . After passing the two state legal examinations, he worked as a lawyer at the local courts in Birkenfeld , Oberstein and Nohfelden . Already in these years he became politically active and developed - probably in deliberate opposition to his authoritarian and ultra-conservative father - into a committed liberal who, since 1844, has campaigned for a reform of the German legal system in several publications. In his publications he also represented the widespread, but at the time optimistic, conviction of the identity of national unity with political freedom.

Political activity

After the outbreak of the German Revolution of 1848 , he was appointed to the five-person constitutional commission by the Oldenburg Grand Duke August I , which worked out the draft for an Oldenburg constitution that formed the basis for the deliberations of the constituent state parliament . Together with Carl Bucholtz , Fischer also wrote a commentary on this draft in which they summarized and justified the demands of pre-March liberalism for the creation of a monarchical- constitutional state. As this cooperation shows, Fischer initially took a moderately liberal point of view and then developed in the following months into a determined liberal with a democratic character who maintained close contacts with the left-opposition members of the state parliament. After his return to Birkenfeld he played a leading role in the discussion about the future position of the principality from autumn 1848. While the Birkenfeld Volksverein, founded as a collecting basin for the moderate forces, advocated the country's continued membership of the Oldenburg state, Fischer advocated joining Prussia in accordance with the Democratic Association of Oberstein . In addition to the temporarily not unfounded hope of a politically progressive development in Prussia, it was above all economic and realpolitical arguments that led him to his plea for a Rhenish Prussia . In December 1848 he organized and headed the so-called Ellenburg Pre-Parliament , a people's assembly that spoke out in favor of joining Prussia by legal means. His efforts failed, however, because the Birkenfeld MPs, who proceeded together, could not even enforce the demand for an autonomous position for the principality within the Grand Duchy in the Oldenburg state parliament, to which Fischer also belonged for a few months in 1851. Disappointed by this failure and the onset after 1850 in Oldenburg conservative turn moved Fischer to Frankfurt, where he worked in the following years as a journalist and editor for large German worked oriented newspapers. When the Prussian troops and their allies occupied the city in the course of the German War in 1866, he was arrested on the street as a political opponent on the orders of the military authorities, who acted with deliberate severity, and suffered a stroke that led to his death.

family

Fischer was married to Agathe born on July 12, 1840. Goulett (1816–1878), the daughter of Johann Heinrich Goulett and Dorothea Margarethe born. Jug. The marriage had four sons and one daughter.

Works

  • The German judiciary. For the friends of law and national unity (freedom), also for understanding the purpose and aim of the upcoming Mainz advocates' meeting. Stuttgart. 1844.
  • German people and German law. A vote. Stuttgart. 1844.
  • The German legal reform and the attempt at a Hessian code of law. Without location information. 1846.
  • For national legal reform. Three parts. Stuttgart. 1846.
  • German speeches. Bremen. 1847.
  • The Oldenburg constitution and its Prussian predecessor. Bremen. 1847.
  • Explanations on the draft of a constitutional state law for the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. Together with CF Bucholtz. Oldenburg. 1848.
  • Rhein Prussia or Rheinoldenburg. A word to my fellow citizens. Mainz. 1848.

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personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Laurenz Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1866
Place of death Frankfurt am Main