Melchior Philipp Karl Baumann

Melchior Philipp Karl Baumann (born August 21, 1794 in Külsheim , † August 2, 1870 in Pirmasens ) was a German businessman and politician .

Melchior Philipp Karl Baumann was a son of the Mainz court official Heinrich Josef Baumann. In Pirmasens, Melchior Baumann was one of the founders of the local group, the “Filialkomitees”, of the German Press and Fatherland Association . In the weeks after the founding of the association in Zweibrücken , 102 citizens of Pirmasens joined the association. The names and contributions were published regularly in Johann Georg August Wirth's newspaper Deutsche Tribüne and have been handed down that way.

On May 29, 1832, the third day of the Hambach Festival , the members of the provisional German National Committee set up the day before in the Neustadt shooting house met in Neustadt to discuss how to proceed. At the same time, Baumann distributed black, red and gold ribbons and cockades to the participants at the Pirmasens fair not without consultation with the Hambachers . The following day, several hundred revolutionaries dressed in paramilitary groups gathered in the city and marched through the city in a march. When the Bavarian Jäger Company, alerted by the Land Commissioner, moved into the city, the group disbanded without any fighting.

Melchior Baumann was sentenced to six months in prison for insulting the extraordinary court commissioner, Prince von Wrede, in July 1832. He was acquitted on March 26, 1833 by the jury court in Landau from the charge of distributing pamphlets and making provocative speeches .

In 1848 Baumann was a member of the Pirmasens Cantonal Committee of the Palatinate Republic.

literature

• Albert Becker: Hambach and Pirmasens . Pirmasens 1928, reprinted with an afterword by Dr. Otto Klesmann, Pirmasens 1982.
• Cornelia Foerster: The Press and Fatherland Association of 1832/33. Social structure and forms of organization of the bourgeois movement in the time of the Hambach Festival . Dissertation University of Trier, Trier Historical Research Publishing House, Trier 1981, ISBN 3-923087-02-0 .
• Edgar Süss: The Palatinate in the "Black Book" . Heidelberg publ. Z. Regional history and regional studies, Volume 3, Heidelberg 1956.