Ludwig Greiner (politician)

Announcement of the provisional government of the Palatinate on the separation of the Palatinate from Bavaria (1849)

Ludwig Greiner (born June 13, 1814 in Thaleischweiler ; † autumn 1874 in Newark (New Jersey) ) was a German politician and revolutionary. He is also known as Louis Greiner or Theodor Greiner , his baptismal name is Johann Ludwig Christian Greiner .

Life

Greiner was a son of pastor Carl Daniel Greiner and his wife Sophia Friederica Harteneck. He studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in this subject. From 1843 to 1847 he was the Royal Bavarian Ministerial Secretary.

In the autumn of 1848 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies (Bavaria) of the 13th Bavarian State Parliament from 1849 for the constituency of Zweibrücken / Pirmasens . There belonged to the IV. Committee for the repayment of public debt and the VI. Committee to consider MEPs' requests. On January 30, 1849, he is listed as the estate commissioner for debt repayment . As a member of the Palatinate, he was close to the liberal movement.

On the evening of May 2, 1849 in Kaiserslautern he was elected to the ten-member state committee for the defense and implementation of the imperial constitution. There he was one of the active members. On May 17, a meeting of 28 representatives of the Palatinate cantons voted with a narrow majority (15:13 votes) for the Palatinate uprising as part of the imperial constitutional campaign . Then Greiner was elected as a substitute in a provisional government with 28 votes, and through the " Loos" he became 1st substitute ". Since several of the elected did not appear there, he moved up.

As Foreign Minister, Greiner was a member of the five-member provisional government of the Rhine Palatinate . After the uprising was put down, he fled via Switzerland to England in June, where he was granted asylum . In 1851 he went to America. Previously, it had the Palatine Court of Appeal in Two Bridges in absentia for high and treason to death sentenced. He was sixth in the indictment file. In the Anklag file he is as right candidate Theodor Greiner listed in the state legislature acts he has been Rechtsprakikant called.

In America he worked as a farmer and tanner in Sullivan County (New York) . He later resided in New Jersey state . There he was a member of the German Republican Party.

family

Greiner had at least 9 siblings. His ancestors were glassworks masters in Mattstall . His cousins ​​Diehl and Lippack were involved in revolutionary activities in Pirmasens in 1849. Diehl is also sentenced to death in absentia, Lippack was sentenced to three years in prison, of which he had to serve two years in addition to pre-trial detention.

swell

• Indictment files, drawn up by the K. General State Procuratorate of the Palatinate, together with the verdict of the Prosecution Chamber of the K. Court of Appeal of the Palatinate in Zweibrücken on June 29, 1850, in the investigation against Martin Reichard, dismissed notary in Speyer, and 332 consorts because of armed rebellion against armed power, high treason and state treason, etc., Zweibrücken 1850

literature

• Rudolf H. Böttcher: Dr. Theodor Greiner - former Royal Secretary of State. In: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849. A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution. Special issue of the Association for Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies. Volume 14. Issue 6. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1999. P. 288, 297, 286ff.

Web links

• hdbg.de : Greiner, Dr. Ludwig (database on the history of the Bavarian Parliament)