Max Schneckenburger

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Medallion with the portrait of Max Schneckenburger

Max Schneckenburger , actually Maximilian Schnekenburger (born February 17, 1819 in Talheim near Tuttlingen , † May 3, 1849 in Burgdorf near Bern ) was the poet of the patriotic song Die Wacht am Rhein .

Life

Max Schneckenburger was born the son of a businessman in Talheim near Tuttlingen in Württemberg . His older brother, the Protestant theologian Matthias Schneckenburger , was to become a professor at the newly founded University of Bern in 1834 . Max Schneckenburger attended Latin schools in Tuttlingen and Herrenberg .

After his confirmation he entered a business in Bern as a commercial apprentice and got to know France and Great Britain on a business trip in 1838 . After his return he moved to Burgdorf in 1841. Here he founded an iron foundry and married the daughter of a Württemberg priest.

The watch on the Rhine

Schneckenburger monument ( Fritz von Graevenitz , 1937) in Tuttlingen - scene from the watch on the Rhine

The poem Die Wacht am Rhein , which in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 was set to German national song by Carl Wilhelm , was composed in 1840 when France was threatening the left bank of the Rhine and revisionist views were represented in the French press.

After the war of 1870/71, like the composer, the surviving dependents of the poet (his widow and two sons) were awarded an annual pension of 3,000 marks by the Reich Chancellery . German songs from his estate were published by Metzler Verlag in Stuttgart in 1870 .

Since Max Schneckenburger had always longed for his homeland, his bones were transferred to Thalheim on July 18, 1886 and buried there. The tombstone remained in Burgdorf and can be seen in the "Ahneneck" in the Burgdorf cemetery. In Munich a street in the "Franzosenviertel" is dedicated to him.

At the beginning of 1888, Adolf Jahn took part in a competition for the Max Schneckenburger monument with the Germania figure, which had been announced by the city of Tuttlingen. He won 1st prize with his design. The memorial was unveiled on June 19, 1892 in the city garden of Tuttlingen. Since the original had lost its appearance, the Talheim community decided to have a copy of the "Small Germania" figure made. This is now in front of the house where the poet was born.

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From a political essay by Schneckenburger from 1840:

With the first new regulation in Europe, the shoemaker organization of the Vienna Congress must be replaced by the only sensible and henceforth only permissible division according to national principles. And it is reserved to such a division to give Germany all of its gradually alienated provinces, whereby Arndt's As far as the German tongue sounds is accepted as the correct scheme for the foundation of a new Germany.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Schneckenburger Monument. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .

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SURNAME Schneckenburger, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Talheim (Tuttlingen district)
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1849
Place of death Burgdorf BE