Nikolaus Hallauer

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Nikolaus Hallauer (born December 8, 1803 in St. Wendel , † November 14, 1887 in Metz ) was a German lawyer . As a member of the German Press and Fatherland Association , he campaigned for the preservation of freedom of the press and freedom of expression in Germany and was a speaker at the Hambach Festival of 1832 .

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Nikolaus Hallauer was born on December 8, 1803 in St. Wendel . From May 1824 to September 1826 he studied law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn.

From 1827 he was a lawyer at the ducal regional court of the Principality of Lichtenberg zu St. Wendel. He was a member of the "Keller Society" which saw itself as a national-liberal group, the name of which was chosen according to the location of the meeting, Peter Keller's pub. In addition to the pastor Karl Wilhelm Juch and the rector Johannes Schué , he was the political head of St. Wendel’s efforts for freedom.

In 1832 he became a member of the German Press and Fatherland Association, as did his work colleagues Hen and Bonner, who ran the St. Wendel association branch together with others. As a branch functionary he appeared as a speaker for the Principality of Lichtenberg at the Hambach Festival . Hallauer was present at the meeting in the Schoppmann's apartment , at the end of which he said: We'll see each other again in prison. He took part in the St. Wendel riot , which could only  be calmed down after 1,000  Prussian soldiers had marched in and a state of emergency was imposed. Thereupon he was arrested on July 13, 1832 in St. Wendel at the instigation of the royal Bavarian government of the Rhine district. He was sentenced to two years in prison in January 1833 for insulting the government in relation to their official duties . Because of the dissemination of forbidden pamphlets , there was an additional three months imprisonment, a 50 franc fine and the loss of civil rights for a period of five years. On July 23, 1833, Hallauer was provisionally released after he had been acquitted in Speyer of another charge, his participation in the Hambach Festival and the speech given there . This led to erroneous press reports of an alleged pardon, which were later revoked. Only three days later, on July 26, 1833, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg had Hallauer dismissed from his service for disciplinary and other offenses and struck off the list of lawyers. Although the lawyer was at large, the prison sentence and the loss of civil rights for five years remained in place. The "riot" in which Hallauer was involved ultimately led to the fact that in 1834 the Saxon-Coburg and Gothas exclave, which was considered to be poorly governable , was sold to Prussia. At this point, however, the lawyer was already out of the country; he was in August 1833 before further punishment to Metz in north-eastern France . fled.

Hallauer returned home from exile between 1848 and 1849 for the elections for the Frankfurt National Assembly . He was elected Deputy MP for the National Assembly. The “constituency” was given to Carl Philipp Cetto , who had also taken part in the Hambach Festival, but did not speak there.

From 1862 he was a French citizen. He died on November 14, 1887 in Metz.

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  • The refugee. In: The Outlaw. Journal in connection with several German people's friends, ed. by Jacob Venedey . Paris 1834, pp. 69-71 ( online at Munich Digitization Center ).

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f Peter Wettmann-Jungblut: Lawyers on the Saar 1800-1960 . History of a civil profession, ed. from the Saarland Lawyers' Association. Brockhaus, Blieskastel 2004, ISBN 978-3-935731-19-5 , pp. 500 ( in Saarland biographies ).
  2. ^ Reprint of the speech by Johann Georg August Wirth : The National Festival of the Germans in Hambach. Issue 1. Neustadt 1832, pp. 59–63 ( online at Deutsches Textarchiv (DTA) ).
  3. ↑ a b St. Wendel: Lecture and book presentation by Dr. Josef Dreesen - "175 Years of the Hambach Festival". 2007, archived from the original on October 26, 2007 ; accessed on January 14, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b 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. Trier 1982, ISBN 978-3-923087-02-0 , pp. 131 (Trier Historical Research, Vol. 3 online at books.google.de ).
  5. ^ Dieter Lau: Pre-Times - History in Rhineland-Palatinate . Ed .: Franz-Josef Heyen. 1st edition. tape 5 . Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1989, p. 179 ( Uni-Mainz ( MS Word ; 215 kB)).
  6. ↑ The Bavarian People's Friend. Edition dated August 2, 1832 . Munich 1832, Sp. 154 ( online at Google Books ).
  7. ^ Supplement to the Frankfurter Journal. No. 18 of January 18, 1833 . Frankfurt 1833 ( online at Google Books ).
  8. ↑ Bayreuther Zeitung. Issued August 17, 1833 . Bayreuth 1833, p. 631 ( online at Google Books ).
personal data
SURNAME Hallauer, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Wendel
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1887
Place of death Metz