Ludwig Eichler

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Ludwig Eichler's profile , published in Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schehrten Dinge , No. 300 of December 23, 1848, second supplement

Johann Ludwig Paul Siegfried Eichler (born July 14, 1814 in Berlin ; † May 8, 1870 there ) was a German writer and one of the central figures of the Berlin March Revolution of 1848.

Life

Eichler probably studied at the University of Halle and completed his studies with a doctorate. phil. from. His earliest literary work is the novella Adventure of a Contrabassist , which he offered in 1839 through his friend Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn to the composer and journalist Robert Schumann for his Neue Zeitschrift für Musik . Thanks to Schumann's mediation, it finally appeared in the Pesther Tageblatt . From 1840 to 1842 he stood out primarily with the humorous booklets Berlin and Berlin , which he published together with Ludwig Lenz . He was also a sought-after translator from French .

From 1840 onwards, Eichler's views became increasingly radical. In 1841, for example, he published several articles in the Young Hegelian journal Athenaeum , in which the first publication by Karl Marx appeared on January 23 , and which was banned at the end of the year. In the same year he frequented the “Club of the Free”, which regularly gathered around the philosophers Bruno Bauer and Max Stirner in Jacob Hippel's wine tavern at Friedrichstrasse 94 . Stirner's first biographer John Henry Mackay remarked: “Ludwig Eichler also belonged to the inner ring, the man with the red, flowing beard and the shabby, green fluffy skirt, the popular speaker with the powerful voice, virtuoso in dispensing and translating French novels, and of fundamentally decent convictions. ”Further members in the loose circle were Bauer's brother Edgar Bauer , the writer Ludwig Buhl , the high school teacher Karl Friedrich Köppen and the journalist Eduard Meyen .

On September 28, 1841, "the former actor and current writer L. Eichler" (according to a police report) was one of the participants in the Welcker Serenade in Berlin and on November 12, 1841 was one of the signatories of a petition that advocated another party namely for Rudolf Wentzel, editor of the Allgemeine Preußische Staatszeitung , who was reprimanded after this event. On February 3, 1842, an Austrian secret agent reported to Vienna : “The man of letters Ludwig Eichler in Berlin was arrested there because he had said in the 'Schlesische Konditorei' that the king must have been 'drunk' when he entered a diocese Jerusalem have set up. "he was then on February 7," convicted of irreverent speeches in a public place "to 18 months imprisonment.

Eichler is  listed in the Berlin address book for the first time in 1842 with the address Dorotheenstrasse 10, then again in 1846, after which he now lived at Potsdamer Strasse  36. Shortly afterwards he moved to Anhaltische Kommunikation 12, today's Stresemannstrasse , where he now calls himself “Dr. und Leutnant ”, also in the 1848 address book. It is not known whether he actually joined the military.

Eichler often had financial problems, but was not afraid to even ask celebrities for money. The composer Giacomo Meyerbeer noted in his diary on June 23, 1847: “To the writer Dr. Eichler made a loan of 30 thalers on his written request. "

On the afternoon of March 18, 1848, the beginning of the March Revolution, Eichler was among those who built one of the first barricades out of the sentry in front of the Royal Bank on Dönhoffplatz , “where his headquarters were, and from where he started the fight directed at all the nearest barricades through his orders ”. The next day he prevented the angry crowd from  storming and plundering the " Old Palace " - the residence of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , who had fled , by saying from the balcony of the building "with a few poignant words to be quiet" and the palace for "national property “Explained. In the following weeks he made a name for himself as one of the spokesmen for the “Democratic Club” led by Rudolph Schramm and the “People's Election Committee”. In December 1848 he fled to Paris while he was wanted in Berlin . On April 19, 1849, he visited Giacomo Meyerbeer in Paris, who possibly helped him out of financial difficulties.

In December 1849 he returned to Berlin and was arrested again. The trial against him began on February 2nd, 1850, on April 14th he was sentenced to nine months of imprisonment for "attempted rioting" and "for the loss of the national coronet". His defender in the trial, which received a lot of media attention, was the prominent lawyer and historian Leopold Volkmar . He achieved that Eichler was acquitted of the charge of "lese majesty" and proved that he was not to blame for the death of the sentry who died on March 18, 1848 on Dönhoffplatz . Otherwise Eichler would have threatened a much higher penalty.

He served his imprisonment outside Berlin, in Magdeburg prison , possibly because the Berlin judiciary feared his numerous Berlin sympathizers. From there, Eichler wrote to the publisher Karl Ferdinand Philippi in Grimma on August 30, 1850 and asked if he might have a job for him as a translator of foreign books (French, Italian and Spanish). The answer was probably negative.

In the last years of his life he was homeless and spent most of the nights in the Tiergarten , but was honored on the occasion of his death as a man "who was one of the most popular personalities in our city":

“The tall, broad-shouldered figure of the man appeared alternately in an elegant suit and now again in the most torn condition, and accordingly now in the wine bar, now in the distillation and nightly“ coffee flap ”. Eichler possessed manifold knowledge, especially fluency in language, which he documented in good translations, but he was unsettled; Fixed employment was anathema to him, he felt comfortable alone on the street. This real bohemian , who was just as happy with bread and cumin today as he was with oysters and chablis yesterday, felt no less at home among factory workers than among scholars, and from his treasure trove of experiences and anecdotes, which his good memory is always ready stopped, he knew how to welcome both the one and the other. Loyal to the democratic cause, he never allowed himself to improve his situation by approaching another party, and that is why people tend to overlook the small inconveniences that arose from his financial needs. His body was extremely hardened from spending the night in the open air and, despite the advanced years - he was close to 60 - seemed indestructible. (A broken leg was the cause of the disease he succumbed to.) "

Works

  • Adventure of a double bass player . In: Pesther Tageblatt, magazine for science, art and life , vol. 1, no. 306 of December 25, 1839, col. 3485–3490; No. 307, December 27, 1839, pp. 3501-3504; No. 308 of December 28, 1839, col. 3513-3516 and No. 309 of December 29, 1839, col. 3525-3528
  • The supplicants . Novella . In: Karl Riedel (Ed.): Athenaeum. Journal for educated Germany , vol. 1, no. 3 of January 16, 1841, pp. 40-44; No. 4, January 23, 1841, pp. 51-55; No. 6, February 6, 1841, pp. 91-94
  • Sonnets . In: ibid., Vol. 1, no. 3 of January 16, 1841, pp. 44f.
  • Mr. Ludwig Rellstab as moral judge of the younger German writer world . In: ibid., Vol. 1, no. 38 of September 25, 1841, pp. 599-602, books.google.de
  • Berlin and the Berliners. Genre pictures and sketches , 8 booklets. Berlin 1840–1842 (the first issues together with Ludwig Lenz), with pen drawings by Theodor Hosemann
    • Issue 1, The Barber, The Guard Parade , Berlin 1840
    • Book 2, Der Leichenbitter , Liebhabertheater , Berlin 1840
    • Issue 3, Droschken, Auctionsscenen , Berlin 1841
    • Book 4, The Cleaning Machine, The Colosseum , Berlin 1841
    • Book 5, Der Executor, Eine Tabagie , Berlin 1842
    • Book 6, Der Banquier, Salons and Soireen , Berlin 1842
    • Issue 7, Der Zeitungs-Correspondent, Eine Conditorei , Berlin 1842
    • Booklet 8, The Boot Cleaner, A Puppet Show , Berlin 1842
  • Open letter . In: German Reform. Political newspaper for constitutional Germany , volume 1, December 9, 1849

Translations (selection)

literature

  • Nekrolog , in: Vossische Zeitung , No. 108 of May 10, 1870, Second Supplement, p. 5
  • Nekrolog, in: Berliner Volks-Zeitung , vol. 18, no. 109 of May 11, 1870, pp. [3] and [7]
  • Adolf Streckfuß, 500 years of Berlin history , 3rd edition Berlin 1880, volume 2
  • Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 145–150, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Henry Mackay : Max Stirner. His life and his work . 3rd edition Berlin 1914, p. 65 archive.org
  2. ^ Helmut Hirsch: The Berlin Welcker rally. On the early history of the popular demonstrations . In: Archiv für Sozialgeschichte , vol. 1 (1961), pp. 27–42, here pp. 39–41
  3. ↑ Hans Adler (Ed.): Literary Secret Reports. Protocols of the Metternich agents , Volume 1, Cologne 1977, p. 118, books.google.de
  4. ↑ Materials on the history of the government of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. From June 7, 1840 to October 18, 1842 . Königsberg 1842, p. 53, books.google.de
  5. ↑ Eichler, Ludwig . In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1846, part 1, p. 94.
  6. ↑ Eichler, Ludwig . In: General housing gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and surroundings , 1848, part 1, p. 94.
  7. ^ Giacomo Meyerbeer: Correspondence and Diaries , Volume 4, ed. by Heinz Becker and Gudrun Becker. Berlin 1985, p. 259
  8. ^ Deutsche Zeitung , Frankfurt, No. 5 of January 5, 1850, p. 34 books.google.de
  9. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense : Diaries , Volume 4, Leipzig 1862, pp. 305f. (Note from March 18, 1848) books.google.de
  10. ^ Adolf Streckfuß : 500 years of Berlin history . 3rd edition Berlin 1880, Volume 2, p. 1009
  11. ^ Newspaper for the elegant world , vol. 49, no. 24 (no date), 1849, p. 191 books.google.de
  12. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense: Diaries , Volume 5, Leipzig 1862, p. 358 (note of December 24, 1848) books.google.de
  13. ^ Giacomo Meyerbeer: Correspondence and Diaries , Volume 4, ed. by Heinz Becker and Gudrun Becker. Berlin 1985, p. 482
  14. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, Diaries , Volume 6, Leipzig 1862, p. 471 (note dated December 8, 1849) books.google.de
  15. ^ Deutsche Zeitung , Frankfurt, No. 36 of February 5, 1850, p. 283 books.google.de
  16. ^ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense: Diaries , Volume 7, Zurich 1865, p. 134 (note from April 16, 1850) books.google.de
  17. ↑ Der Bayerische Eilbote, Munich, No. 48 of April 21, 1850, p. 386 books.google.de
  18. ^ Autograph in Leipzig, Stadtgeschichtliches Museum
  19. ↑ Anonymous: An original. In: The collector. Supplement to the Augsburger Abendzeitung. Vol. 39, No. 57 of May 28, 1870, p. 228. books.google.de.
personal data
SURNAME Eichler, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichler, Johann Ludwig Paul Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1870
Place of death Berlin