Ludwig von Mühlenfels

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Ludwig von Mühlenfels (born September 5, 1793 in Groß Kordshagen , † June 14, 1861 in Greifswald ) was a German literary historian and judge .

Life

Mühlenfels' father was the captain a. D. Gustav Anton von Mühlenfels (1767–1849), Swedish pledge holder of the Groß Cordshagen estate. There he experienced the billeting of French troops and "sucked in ardent French hatred". He was first brought up by private tutors and, at the age of 16, placed in the care of Theodor Ziemssen in Hanshagen . In 1812 he began to study law at the University of Greifswald . With his cousin Adolf († 1822) he became a member of the Corps Pomerania Greifswald in 1812 .

Wars of Liberation

Without his father's knowledge, v. Mühlenfels at the end of March 1813 Greifswald. With Carl Hahn he walked to Berlin to join the Lützow Freikorps . He had to stay in Berlin because of swollen feet, but in April he was assigned to the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment No. 9 in Leipzig . Since his regiment had not reached the demarcation line at the beginning of the Pläswitz armistice , the soldiers at Kitzen were attacked and v. Mühlenfels badly wounded. He escaped to Zeitz , where the coppersmith Wagner took care of him. Betrayed and captured by the French, he was taken to the French hospital in Leipzig . On the transport to Mainz he and another prisoner managed to escape near Gelnhausen . After staying with Christoph Ziemssen in Heidelberg , he fled to the Bohemian border . There he joined the Northern Army . Of the seven brothers v. Mühlenfels were five in Swedish and two in Austrian service.

He moved to Berlin via Prague and Wroclaw , soon to join the army of the Swedish Crown Prince Karl XIV. Johann . On the day of the Battle of Dennewitz he reached his headquarters. In a dragoon regiment of the Prussian Army, he rode a brilliant cavalry attack and personally brought a shifting battalion to hold and attack. After the battle he moved to the Duchy of Holstein as a hussar officer ; but he was soon released because the wounds he had received from fawns broke open.

In 1815 he went to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he continued his studies and received his doctorate in law in 1816 . A renunciation party had formed among the students . She stood against the country teams and for the unity of Germany . In it v. Mühlenfels soon assumed a leading position. Three corps brothers (including Adolf von Mühlenfels) and some members of the Greifswald Sueco-Pomerania were among them. The Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft emerged from the Renoncen party. From the Pomeranians joined the fraternity through the two v. Mühlenfels, Blanck, Tamms, Dieffenbach, Rassow, Wallenius, Johannes, Grossheim, Schreiber and Berger.

Demagogue persecution

Ludwig v. Mühlenfels then worked for the state procurator in Cologne and became his representative at the local district court in 1817. In July 1819 he was arrested as part of an investigation into activities that threatened the state. The Prussian Police Ministry had him brought to Berlin and brought before the "Immediate Investigation Commission to determine treasonous connections and other dangerous activities". Mühlenfels refused to testify and denied the responsibility of the commission. The rapporteur for the Immediatkommission was ETA Hoffmann , who came to the conclusion in his investigation that Mühlenfels expressions of opinion were not justiciable. The police director Karl Albert von Kamptz rejected the request by the commission in August 1820 to stop the investigation and to be released from prison . He demanded that Mühlenfels be made to give factual statements. In early May 1821 it was finally ordered that he should be tried. On the night of May 5 to 6, however, after 23 months of pre-trial detention, he managed to escape from the Berlin city bailiwick.

exile

He went to Sweden , where he worked as a tutor for a family in Gothenburg and Stockholm. When he wanted to emigrate to North America in 1828 , he received a call to the University of London , where he became professor of German and Nordic language and literature. From London he carried out his rehabilitation in Germany. In 1829 he traveled to Germany for a trial. He was acquitted and accepted back into the Prussian civil service. In the event of renewed persecution, he kept London open as a possible retreat. The orientalist Friedrich August Rosen took over his seminars and the sale of his lecture manuscripts. Mühlenfels did not officially resign in London until August 1831.

Judge in Prussia

From 1830 Ludwig von Mühlenfels was initially employed at the Higher Appeal Court in Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1834 he came to the Higher Regional Court of Stettin as a higher regional court assessor . At the higher regional court in Naumburg since 1836 , he was transferred to the higher appeal court in Greifswald in 1846 .

In the autumn of 1848, the German Confederation sent him to Thuringia as Reich Commissioner to fight the German Revolution of 1848/1849 with federal troops .

Fonts (selection)

  • Inaugural address given at the University of London on October 30, 1828. Löffler, Stralsund 1830 (translated by Carl Heinrich Tamms).
  • A manual of German literature, containing classical specimens of German prose and poetry, systematically arranged. 2 parts, Taylor, London 1830.
  • An introductory lecture on the German and northern languages ​​and literature. London 1828 (2nd edition, London 1829).
  • An introduction to a course of German literature; in lectures to the students of the university of london. London 1830. ( Google books )
  • Correction of some information concerning me in the writing of the Minister of State von Kamptz: "Examination of the glaring errors of Stadtger.-Raths Simon" . G. Reimer, Berlin 1845.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g History of the Corps Pomerania zu Greifswald from 1810–1935. Compiled by Walter von Hirschfeld on behalf of the old gentlemen's association , p. 30 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Mühlenfels (Ludwig von) . In: Conversations-Lexicon. New episode. Volume 2, Section 1, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1825, p. 284.
  3. ↑ The Kösener Corps lists 1910, 93 , 95 give a wrong year of admission with 1819.
  4. ^ A rider from Lützow. In: Die Grenzbote , 20th year, 2nd semester, 4th volume. Herbig, Leipzig 1861, pp. 481-500
  5. ^ Paul Wentzcke: History of the German Burschenschaft. Vol. 1. Early and early times up to the Karlovy Vary resolutions . Heidelberg 1965. ISBN 3-8253-1338-7 , p. 140
  6. ↑ Jürgen Goydke: ETA / W. Hoffmann as a lawyer. In: Michael Kilian (Ed.): Beyond Bologna - Jurisprudentia literary. From Woyzeck to Weimar, from Hoffmann to Luhmann. Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2007, pp. 52–56
  7. ↑ Ulrike Kirchberger: Aspects of German-British Expansion. The overseas interests of German migrants in Britain in the mid-19th century. In: Contributions to colonial and overseas history. Volume 73, Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07439-2 , pp. 282-292.
  8. ↑ Yearbooks for Prussian Legislation, Law and Legal Administration. Vol. 43, Berlin 1834, pp. 676-677
  9. ↑ EG Gersdorf (ed.): Repertory of the entire German literature. 7th volume, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1836, p. 31.
  10. ^ Critical Yearbooks for German Law. 20th volume, Bernhard Tauchnitz jun., Leipzig 1846, p. 764

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 141-142.
  • Martin Herzig: “I dared!” The life of Ludwig von Mühlenfels (1793–1861). NoRa, 2009, ISBN 3865571859 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mühlenfels, Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, literary historian, appellate judge and Reich commissioner
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Kordshagen
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1861
Place of death Greifswald