Oswald Dietz
Oswald Dietz (born May 27, 1823 in Wiesbaden , † March 9, 1898 in Cincinnati ) was a German freedom fighter and German-American engineer and politician.
Life
Oswald Dietz was the son of the Wiesbaden mill owner, city councilor and state deputy Michael Konrad Dietz. He studied engineering in Karlsruhe , Munich and Berlin . In 1840 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Karlsruhe . On May 24, 1848 he was one of the founders of the Wiesbaden Workers' Association and previously the Republican Society, the Democratic Association, in whose name, together with Georg Böhning and Friedrich Graefe, he first published a leaflet on March 4, 1848 to abolish the monarchy and form a republic issued. Together with Karl Schapper he represented the workers' association at the Paulskirche assembly in June 1848 in Frankfurt. After he had been arrested several times, he fled his homeland in Naussau to France, took part in the Baden Revolution in 1849 and finally fled Germany to London in 1850, where he worked as secretary and archivist of the central authority of the federal government , headed by Karl Schapper and August Willich Communists became active.
In 1852 Dietz emigrated to the United States of America , where he initially worked as an engineer in Texas and after the Civil War in Chattanooga . In 1875 he became the Chattanooga City Engineer. Later he lived as an engineer like August Willich in Cincinnati until his death. He wrote Some Ideas about River Engineering , which he submitted to the Engineers' Club of Cincinnati. In it he proposed the establishment of a school for experimental hydraulic engineering. Politically, he was involved in the Ohio Union Labor Party. On July 5, 1889, he was nominated as a candidate for the office of Commissioner of Public Works in Lima (Ohio) at their party congress as part of the gubernatorial election.
literature
- Dietz, Oswald . In: German biographical encyclopedia Volume 2: Bohacz - Ebhardt, 2001, p. 541.
Web links
- The history of the Wiesbaden SPD - the beginnings on www.spd-fraktion-wiesbaden.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietz, Oswald (Death, 1898-03-09)
- ^ Corps list of Franconia Karlsruhe 1839-1929 , No. 17
- ↑ Wiesbaden-Biebrich
- ↑ Chattanooga, Tennessee (1876), p. 15
- ^ The Railroad and Engineering Journal, Volume 64, Oct. 1890, p. 476
- ^ True Republican, July 13, 1889
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dietz, Oswald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German freedom fighter and German-American engineer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1898 |
| Place of death | Cincinnati |