Otto Lüning

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Heinrich Otto Lüning (born March 6, 1818 in Gütersloh , † November 19, 1868 in Rheda / Westphalia ) was a Westphalian social politician , journalist and doctor for the poor .

Heinrich Otto Lüning, around 1860

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Lüning was baptized as Heinrich Otto Lüning on March 20, 1818 in Gütersloh. His parents were the pastor Johann Friedrich Lüning and Johanna Luisa Amalia Velhagen. His brother Hermann Lüning was a Germanist; his brother August Lüning is a physician. His maternal grandfather was a canon in Quernheim . He attended high school in Bielefeld from 1827 and passed the school leaving examination there in 1834. On June 5, 1847, he married Sophia Luise Schwenger, daughter of Carl Gottfried Schwenger and Auguste Caroline Tüschen in Rheda.

During his studies he became a member of the Greifswald Reading Club and Weapons Club in 1834 and of the Raczek fraternity in Breslau in 1835 . After studying theology and medicine in Greifswald and Breslau , which he completed in 1839 with a doctorate under Professor Purkyně , Otto Lüning worked in Rheda from 1840 to 1850 as a doctor , surgeon and obstetrician. During this time he founded the Rhedaer Kreis (also: Holter Kreis ), which met regularly at the Holte hunting lodge and aimed to overcome the glaring social grievances that existed in Westphalia and many other German areas at the time. Lüning was elected to the board of the aid association in Rheda. Further goals were a united fatherland and the development of workers' aid associations .

During this time there was close contact with Julius Vortriede, who was then a teacher in Gütersloh, and with the lawyer Friedrich David Groneweg . For a time Lüning, who was in contact with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels , was a member of the Communist League . From 1845 to 1848 he was publisher and sole editor of the newspaper Das Westphälische Dampfboot . From 1848 to 1850 Lüning and his brother-in-law Joseph Weydemeyer were the responsible editor of the Neue Deutsche Zeitung , which from October 1, 1848 was the official organ of the left-wing members of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

After the forced dissolution of the National Assembly, Otto Lüning fled to Switzerland and lived in Zurich until his wife's death in 1856 . He then returned to Rheda, where he resumed his work as a doctor. From 1862 to 1867 Lüning sat as a representative of a Berlin constituency in the Prussian House of Representatives. He was initially a member of the German Progressive Party and after its split in 1866 switched to the National Liberals . From 1864 Lüning was also editor-in-chief of the Westfälische Zeitung in Dortmund .

Works

Pamphlets

  • De velamentis medullae spinalis . Vratislaviae 1839. 30 p. (Univ., Med. Diss.)
  • Poems . Brodtmannsche Buchhandlung publishing house, Schaffhausen 1844
  • This book belongs to the people edited by Otto Lüning . 3. Vol. A. Helmich, Bielefeld 1845-1846
  • The Westphalian steamboat. Edited by Otto Lüning . Crüwell, Paderborn 1845-1848 (1.1845 - 4.1848.12 -17 May) (reprint, Glashütten / Ts., 1972)
  • The new electoral law . Grote'sche Buchdruckerei, Münster 1848 Flyer
  • Otto Lüning / J.Weydemeyer / Christian Esselen , Friedrich Kapp , Rudolf Rempel : To the people. Munster April 2, 1848 . Grote'sche Buchdruckerei, Münster 1848 Flyer
  • Lüning, Otto (early socialist): Poems , edited by Peter Strüber, Rheda-Wiedenbrück 2000

Estate, handwritten

  • Giessen UB: Letter to Jakob Schaub, Frankfurt / M., September 19, 1850
  • StA Bielefeld: Letter to [...] Dresel, June 13, 1847; 2 Ged. 1845f.
  • UStB Frankfurt / M .: Letter to Friedrich August Finger, 1850
  • Munich University Library 12 letters 1860-1865 to Ludwig Feuerbach and three letters from Ludwig Feuerbach (1860-1863)
  • further autographs in: Nieders. SB / UB Göttingen, Bayer. StLB Dortmund, UB Bonn, Württ. LB Stuttgart, UB Heidelberg.

literature

  • Reading book Otto Lüning . Compiled by Walter Gödden. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8498-1276-8 (Nylands Kleine Westfälische Bibliothek 73).
  • The highest rebuke of the Higher Regional Court in Paderborn for its judgments in the Lüning trial . In: This is how the king spoke: Speeches, toasts, proclamations, messages, cabinet orders, edicts, etc. Friedrich Wilhelm IV., King of Prussia. Memories from and about the life and government history from 1840 to 1854 (...) . K. Köpel, Stuttgart 1861, pp. 285-286 .
  • Walter Gödden: Otto Lüning . In: Vormärz manual . Edited by Norbert Otto Eke on behalf of the Vormärz Research Forum. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 978-3-8498-1550-9 , pp. 856-862.
  • Dr. Heinrich Otto Lüning . In: Helmut Dressler: Doctors around Karl Marx. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1970, pp. 67–72.
  • H. Brims: The Westphalian steamboat. A political magazine of "true" socialism . Diss. Augsburg 1983.
  • G. Frick-Lemmer: The Westphalian steam boat . Münster 1990 (Westphalia in the picture. Westphalian biographies 78).
  • Jochen Sänger: Early Socialists from East Westphalia and Lippe. E.g. Dr. Otto Lüning, Rheda, doctor . In: Democracy: our way, democracy: our goal! . Edited by the district executive of the SPD Ostwestfalen-Lippe. Scientific director Reinhard Lüpke. - Hamburg-Eppendorf, 1993, pp. 8-18.
  • Jochen Sänger and Peter Strüber: The labor movement in Rheda and Wiedenbrück from the Rhedaer Kreis to the SPD today . Gieselmann, Gütersloh 1995.
  • Alfred Wesselmann : Otto Lüning, the Westphalian steam boat and the socially critical tendencies of contemporary painting, in: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Issue I / 2004.
  • Gero Wierichs: Too progressive for the province? Otto Lüning, the "Rhedaer Kreis" and the "Westphälische Dampfboot" . In: "Every upheaval bears the character of its time": Ostwestfalen-Lippe 1848/49. Regional historical studies on the occasion of the exhibition Revolution - Communication - Public in the Historical Museum Bielefeld, May 9 to August 15, 1999. Texts and documents . Edited by Horst Walter Blanke. Bielefeld Historisches Museum, (1999), pp. 93–120.
  • Roland Köhne: Otto Lüning and Georg Herwegh . A poetic relationship in the pre-March period . In: Annual report of the historical association for the county of Ravensberg . Bielefeld 92nd year 2007, pp. 91-108.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 324-325.
  • Jochen Sänger: The common thread - the history of the labor movement in Rheda-Wiedenbrück - from the Rhedaer Kreis to the SPD today. 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Almanac of the Imperial Academy of Sciences , Vienna 1870, p. 192.
  2. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government in Minden 1840, p. 360


personal data
SURNAME Lüning, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lünung, Heinrich Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Westphalian social politician, journalist and doctor for the poor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Velhagen near Gütersloh
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1868
Place of death Rheda , Westphalia