Oskar Kieselhausen

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Oskar Heinrich Emil Kieselhausen (born May 14, 1821 in Gotha ; † July 28, 1876 in Reinach , Switzerland ) was a German democrat.

Life

He was the son of a pastor from Gotha and attended the illustrious grammar school there. He then studied theology and mathematics at the University of Jena and also at the University of Leipzig . At both universities he felt the growing political disputes. He himself belonged to a Kochei fraternity and was very critical of the prevailing conditions and the small German states.

At the University of Leipzig he was sentenced to four weeks in prison in 1843 for being accused of being a spokesman for the fraternity and was expelled on March 12, 1844.

Oskar Kieselhausen went to Chemnitz , where he became a technician in Hartmann's machine factory. There he welcomed the March Revolution in 1848 . He placed himself at the head of the resistance in Chemnitz and in April mobilized around 6,000 workers who elected him president of the Estates workers' assembly. Kieselhausen was one of the co-founders of the German Fatherland Association in Chemnitz. He was also a member of the citizens' association and leader of the Turner reserve company in the Chemnitz Communal Guard.

After the September unrest in 1848, Oskar Kieselhausen was taken into custody in Chemnitz for seven weeks. His views began to radicalize. At the side of many volunteers from Chemnitz he stood on the barricades during the Dresden May Uprising in 1849. After the bloody suppression of the uprising , he fled to Kaiserslautern via Schneeberg (Ore Mountains) and Schönheide , where he was holding another meeting . Wanted in a wanted list, he fled to Switzerland via Karlsruhe , after saying goodbye personally to his father, who was pastor in Siebleben at the time.

In Switzerland, Oskar Kiselhausen worked as a teacher at a private boys' institute. In 1854 he settled permanently in Reinach in Aargau, where he was a teacher at the district school, of which he became rector in 1859. There he died at the age of 55.

Honors

One street was named after Oskar Kieselhausen in Chemnitz Kieselhausenstrasse .

literature

  • Joachim Schreiber: Experiences with constitutional reality. Oskar Kieselhausen - a Saxon democrat. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . 35th year, 1991, No. 3, pp. 286-288.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sebastian Schermaul: The implementation of the Karlsbader resolutions at the University of Leipzig 1819-1848. Berlin, Boston 2013, p. 61.
  2. ↑ Joachim Schreiber: Experiences with constitutional reality. Oskar Kieselhausen - a Saxon democrat . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . 35th year, 1991, No. 3, p. 286.
personal data
SURNAME Kieselhausen, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kieselhausen, Oskar Heinrich Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Democrat
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1876
Place of death Reinach , Switzerland