Ludwig Roediger

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Ludwig Roediger (born April 3, 1798 in Neunkirchen am Potzberg , † January 14, 1866 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German high school teacher who became known as a fraternity member during the Wartburg Festival during his student days .

biography

Roediger was born the son of an evangelical reformed pastor. After the early death of his father, he grew up with an uncle in Worms , where he also attended the secondary school at the time. In 1814 he began studying general at the University of Heidelberg and was particularly guided by the philosopher Jakob Friedrich Fries . In 1816 he turned his back on Heidelberg to study philosophy. He initially spent the winter with the family in Worms and then followed Fries to Jena in the summer of 1817 . He stayed in Jena until 1819. In 1815 he became a member of the Teutonia Heidelberg fraternity , in 1817 a member of the original fraternity in Jena and in 1820 a member of the old Erlangen fraternity .

Book burning near the Wartburg (1817)

He was an outstanding participant in the Wartburg Festival and gave the flaming speech on the Wartenberg that initiated the book burning . He also appeared as a speaker for the fraternity at the farewell event in the knights' hall of the Wartburg . After receiving his doctorate in Jena in 1819, he tried to do his habilitation in Berlin. He did gymnastics in Berlin with Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and Ernst Wilhelm Bernhard Eiselen . As an acquaintance of the fraternity member Carl Ludwig Sand , he was arrested as a revolutionary in the salon of the Berlin bookseller Georg Andreas Reimers in 1819. A commission of inquiry stood up for him and after four and a half months he was released from custody without criminal charge. At the end of the year he was arrested again and expelled from Prussia in early 1820 . Roediger then tried again in Erlangen, but here too he was immediately informed by the authorities that he could not be admitted to the teaching post because of his membership in the fraternity in the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1821 he came to the Free City of Frankfurt , where his previously eventful life became calmer. In 1823 he got a job at the municipal high school , which in 1824 became permanent. Here he became Vice Rector in 1838 and thus the third professor. He retired in 1854.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 87.
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 89.
  3. ↑ [A German word spoken to Germany's boys in front of the fire on the Wartenberg near Eisenach ... 1817] , Diederichs, Jena 1917
personal data
SURNAME Roediger, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen am Potzberg
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1866
Place of death Frankfurt am Main