Ludwig Würkert
Friedrich Ludwig Würkert (born December 16, 1800 in Leisnig ; † January 10, 1876 there ) was a Protestant pastor , writer and revolutionary .
Life
He was the son of a carding machine manufacturer. After attending the Princely School of Grimma from September 21, 1814 to September 14, 1819, he studied theology at the University of Leipzig and Dresden. In 1824 he became a deacon in Mittweida . On July 1, 1843, he became the main pastor in Zschopau . He also worked as a writer. In the revolution of 1848/49 he took over the chairmanship of the political people's association in Zschopau, which joined the revolutionary fatherland association. On May 4, 1849, in connection with the Reich constitution campaign , Würkert gave a fiery speech at a people's assembly in Zschopau, after which the storm bells of the church and town hall rang. Then 94 men moved out to Dresden to support the Provisional Government there in the Dresden May uprising .
After the uprising was crushed, Würkert was arrested by Prussian troops on May 13, 1849 and imprisoned in the Augustusburg hunting lodge . In 1851 he was sentenced to eight years in prison in Waldheim . After the pardon in 1855 he returned to Zschopau, where he now only devoted himself to writing. In 1859 he bought the Hôtel de Saxe in Leipzig, in which he set up a classroom and in his second marriage married the local hotel cook. The facility was the meeting place of the Workers 'Education Association Forward, which was important for the establishment of the General German Workers' Association . The hall was later also the meeting place of the emerging trade union movement . He also had a seat at the Leipzig crime table , which was in the Zur Guten Quelle bar on the Brühl . From 1864 he worked as a free religious preacher in Hanau , from 1871 as an editor in Leisnig.
Würkert, who was friends with Franz Mehring , Alfred Brehm and Emil Adolf Roßmaessler , published several magazines in Leipzig. Due to an offensive poem printed in his magazine Freie Glocken , he was to serve another prison sentence. The 75-year-old died in his hometown, where he had returned, a day before he was due to enter prison.
Streets in Leipzig, Zschopau and Augustusburg were named after Würkert .
Works
- Volksbuch der Deutschen , Leipzig approx. 1838 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
literature
- Walter Krannitz: Ludwig Würkert, pastor and revolutionary. In: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge 19 (1974), pp. 175–177.
- Hermann Wunder: Ecce held at the royal school in Grimma in the years 1876, 1877, 1878. G. Gensel, Grimma, 1879, p. 45
Web links
- Short biography on www.leipzig-lexikon.de
- Short biography on www.leisnig.de
- Karl-Heinz Ellinger: Würkert, Friedrich Ludwig (pseud. Ludwig Rein) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Würkert, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Würkert, Friedrich Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant pastor, writer and revolutionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quietly |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1876 |
| Place of death | Quietly |