Nicolas Haussmann

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Nicolas Haussmann (born September 8, 1760 in Colmar , † January 21, 1846 in Chaville ) was a cloth merchant and French politician . He is the grandfather of Georges-Eugène Haussmann , prefect of the French department Seine and urban planner of Paris during the transformation of Paris during the Second Empire .

Life

Nicolas Haussmann was a member of the National Legislative Assembly ( French Assemblée nationale législative ) and the National Convention .

As political commissioner, he accompanied the Armée du Rhin and Armée du Nord missions to review their reports. As a convention deputy assigned to General Custine's army , he came to Mainz , together with Merlin de Thionville and Jean François Reubell , in late December 1792 or early January 1793 in order to set up revolutionary-friendly administrations (municipalities) in the cities and a general administration for the whole Enforce occupation territory. Georg Forster , then editor of “Die neue Mainzer Zeitung” or “Der Volksfreund”, reported there on the festive reception of the three commissioners. Like Custine, the commissioners moved into the archbishop's residence, the electoral palace , where the “ Society of Friends of Freedom and Equality ” - the first Jacobin Club in Germany - was founded on October 23, 1792 . This club was the first democratic movement in Germany. The administration asked all voters to take an oath on the principles of the revolution. Due to his journey to Mainz, Haussmann could not take part in the trial of Louis XVI. attend, but instead he sent a letter with Reubell and Merlin on January 6, 1793, demanding death for the king. This was published in the journal Le Moniteur universel on January 12, 1793.

On February 22, 1793, the commissioners of the National Convention Reubell, Haussmann and Merlin de Thionville assured that the citizens of Mainz would not be forced into military service.

On March 21, the deputies of the Rhine-German National Convention decided to apply to the National Convention in Paris for integration into the French state association. The selected deputies who were to deliver this decision were Georg Forster, Adam Lux and the businessman Potocki. Nicolas Haussmann accompanied the group to Paris, where they arrived on March 29th.

He called for the replacement of the War Ministers Pierre Riel de Beurnonville and Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte , since, as far as he knew , they did not provide sufficient logistical support for Custine , and he supported Custine's side in the process.

He was then sent on a mission to the Batavian Republic and conveyed to the Convention the wish of the United Belgian States to become part of France. After the 9th Thermidor , he was appointed director of the Armée de Rhin-et-Moselle. He was also the rapporteur for the capture of Kaiserslautern and Speyer (1796), the fall of Kehl (1797) and Neustadt (1797), the crossing of the Rhine in 1797 and the Rastatt Congress .

After the Prairial Uprising , he defended his colleague Jean-Marie-Claude-Alexandre Goujon. He followed General Moreau by 1798 . Until 1808 he was responsible for the procurement of provisions and their distribution to the troops (troop catering) and then retired to Chaville.

Based on the letter published in Moniteur, he was forced into exile in Basel under the Second Restoration by the law of January 12, 1816 against the regicide. Shortly before his death, he was allowed to return to France. He returned to his home in Chaville, where he died.

Official mandates

  • Député de la Seine-et-Oise (Majorité réformatrice) 1791–1792
  • Député de la Seine-et-Oise (Gauche) 1792–1795

bibliography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography at www.assemblee-nationale.fr
  2. ↑ a b c G.D. Homan: Jean-François Reubell: French Revolutionary, Patriot, and Director (1747–1807) Springer Science + Business Media , 2012, ISBN 9789401030427
  3. ↑ Gustav Seibt : With a kind of anger: Goethe in the Revolution CH Beck, 2014 ISBN 9783406670565
  4. ↑ Ehrhard Bahr, Thomas P. Saine: The Internalized Revolution Routledge 2016, ISBN 9781317203438
  5. ^ Karl Anton Schaab : The history of the federal fortress Mainz . Mainz 1835, p. 324 ( online ).
  6. ^ Ludwig Uhlig: Georg Forster. Life adventure of a learned world citizen (1754–1794). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, p. 315, ISBN 3-525-36731-7
  7. ↑ [1] Promise to citizens of Mainz not to force them to do military service. Archival signature Stadtarchiv Mainz 11/101, fol. 131
  8. ^ March 18, 1793. The Rhenish-German National Convention in Mainz. (No longer available online.) State Main Archive Koblenz , archived from the original on January 6, 2014 ; Retrieved January 5, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landeshauptarchiv.de
  9. ^ Ludwig Uhlig: Georg Forster. Life adventure of a learned world citizen (1754–1794). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-36731-7
personal data
SURNAME Haussmann, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cloth merchant and politician, member of the National Legislative Assembly and the National Convention
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1846
Place of death Chaville