Ludwig Bisky

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Ludwig Bisky (born October 18, 1817 in Genthin , † May 2, 1863 near Chancellorsville near Fredericksburg , Virginia , USA ) was a German politician and officer in the American Civil War .

Life

Ludwig Bisky was born as the son of a gendarmerie lieutenant in Genthin, Prussia, and moved to Berlin , where he worked as a goldsmith. In 1845 he became a member of the Berlin Craftsmen's Association and in 1846/47 the Communist League . In 1848 he took part in the barricade fighting of the March Revolution , in the course of which he was injured. In April 1848 he was a member of the Berlin People's Election Comité and had worked in the editorial team of the Deutsche Arbeiter-Zeitung from April 8th . On April 11th he became a member of the Berlin Central Committee of Workers and was a co-founder and leading member of the People's Club, which became one of the most important associations of the democratic camp during the revolution of 1848 in Berlin. In May he was elected as a deputy member of the Prussian National Assembly. In June he took part in the Hamburg Craftsmen's Congress as a delegate of the Berlin Craftsmen's Association. From September he was a leading member of the General German Workers 'Association and chairman of the Berlin District Comités of the Workers' Association. After the state of siege was imposed on Berlin, he was briefly imprisoned, then in December 1848 / January 1849 was a member of the Berlin Craftsmen's Parliament and in January he was elector for the Second Chamber of the Prussian Parliament. On February 2, 1850, he was expelled from Berlin and went to Leipzig, where he became president of the general assembly of the workers' brotherhood there. In the middle of 1850 he emigrated to the USA. There he became a captain on the side of the Union states in the American Civil War and fell in the Battle of Chancellorsville .

literature

  • Kurt Wernicke: Ludwig Bisky. A Berlin workers' leader . In: Helmut Bleiber, Walter Schmidt, Rolf Weber (eds.): Men of the Revolution of 1848 , Vol. 2, Berlin 1987, pp. 127 ff.
  • Rüdiger Hachtmann : Berlin 1848, a political and social history of the revolution . Dietz, Bonn 1997

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personal data
SURNAME Bisky, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, officer in the US Army
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Genthin
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1863
Place of death Chancellorsville