Nicholas Valdenaire

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Nikolaus Valdenaire (born May 24, 1772 in Ventron , Département Vosges , France ; † August 9, 1849 in Freudenburg, presumably from cholera), was a French soldier, member of the Rhenish provincial assembly, landlord of the Roscheider Hof and one of the revolutionaries of the revolution of 1848 / 49 in Saarburg .

Life

French time

Valdenaire came to the Trier region at the age of 17 as a soldier in the French Revolutionary Army. In 1801 he married into the Schmitt family from Trier. From 1803 he was a collector in the cantons of Konz and Saarburg and headed the registration office for the cantons of Merzig , Saarburg and Konz. He had achieved considerable wealth by auctioning expropriated monastery property. The acquired goods included the Kunoturm in Saarburg , which he lived in himself, and the Roscheider Hof near Konz, which was added to the state in 1802 and on March 7, 1805 by Nikolaus Valdenaire together with members of the Schmitt family from Trier and Mertert for 8500 francs was auctioned. In 1807 he became a member of the Trier Masonic Lodge.

Prussian time

The Trier region was added to the Prussian Rhineland after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. As a teenager, Nikolaus Valdenaire was shaped by the ideals of the French Revolution. He had to come into conflict with the authoritarian structures of the Prussian state. But he was still politically active. In 1833 he was elected to the 4th Rhenish Provincial Parliament. A parliament that only served to advise the crown and had no decision-making powers. On January 13, 1834, a “celebratory meal” took place in the “Casino Society” in Trier, attended by 160 people, including Mayor Wilhelm von Haw and Peter Ludwig Mohr . The keynote address was given by Heinrich Marx , who was condemned by the Prussian Minister of Justice, Karl Albert von Kamptz .

In his capacity as a member of parliament, on the occasion of the Prussian Crown Prince's visit to Saarburg, he submitted a petition which he had 160 other people sign. In terms of content, this was primarily directed against excessively high taxes and an inflated and incompetent bureaucracy. She was received. There was never an answer, but charges of seditious activity were brought against the author. In the first instance he was sentenced the following year to 6 months in prison, in the second instance he was completely acquitted, but had to bear the investigation costs of both instances.

Nikolaus Valdenaire was elected in 1848 as elector for the Prussian National Assembly and the Frankfurt National Assembly. The electors had elected his son Viktor Valdenaire , a friend of Karl Marx , to the Berlin parliament .

literature

  • Heinz-Günther Böse: Heads of the Revolution 1848/49 in Trier and in the Trier area . In: Elisabeth Dühr; City Museum Simeonstift Trier; The worst point in the province . Self-published, Trier 1998, ISBN 3-930866-13-7 , p. 170-172 .
  • Bernd Blumenthal, Herrmann Kramp: The Roscheider Hof - Benedictine abbey, farmer's school, open-air museum, a contribution to the 25th anniversary of the museum . Series of publications by the Roscheider Hof open-air museum, Konz 1998, ISBN 3-9802025-9-3 .
  • Philipp Wey: Nikolaur Valdenaire (1772–1849) and Viktor Valdenaire (1812–1881). Two revolutionary representatives of the people and contemporaries of Karl Marx. In: Home book of the Saarburg district . tape 13 . Saarburg 1969, p. 44-73 .
  • Heinz Monz: Valdenaire, Nikolaus Johann. In: Heinz Monz (ed.): Trier biographical lexicon. Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , p. 476.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Monz: Karl Marx. Basics of the development of life and work. NCO, Trier 1973, p. 134 f.
personal data
SURNAME Valdenaire, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valdenaire, Nikolaus Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soldier, landlord, MP, revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Ventron , France
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1849
Place of death Freudenburg , Germany