Otto Leonhard Heubner

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Otto Leonhard Heubner
Memorial plaque in Freiberg
Otto Leonhard Heubner's grave in the Old Annenfriedhof in Dresden
Honor roll for Otto Leonhard Heubner in the St. Augustin Grimma high school (in the passage of the main portal)

Otto Leonhard Heubner (born January 17, 1812 in Plauen ; † April 1, 1893 in Blasewitz ) was a German lawyer, politician and poet. He belonged to the Frankfurt National Assembly and was a member of the provisional government after the Dresden May uprising in 1849. As a “Saxon gymnastics father” he revived the progressive Jahn gymnastics movement in times of reaction .

Live and act

The son of the lawyer Johann Friedrich Leonhard Heubner (1768–1838), who practiced in Plauen and Mühltroff , received private lessons until 1824. After attending the Princely School of Grimma , from 1829 he studied law at the University of Leipzig . After he had successfully completed this, he joined his father's office in Plauen as an intern in 1832. In 1834 he was admitted to the bar and settled in his hometown.

In 1833 his activities for the gymnastics movement began. In the years following the Wars of Liberation, the Jahn gymnastics movement was politically suspicious of the authorities and in some cases persecuted by the police, so that one speaks of the "gymnastic barrier" at this time. The first gymnastics institute founded by Heubner in Plauen in 1833 became an example for later foundations in Saxony, which resulted in the state playing a leading role in the German gymnastics movement in the second half of the 19th century. Heubner, from whose pen, by the way, many poems and several gymnastic songs originate, became the "Saxon gymnastics father". The gymnast salute “Gut Heil!” And the red and white gymnast pennants are also due to him.

Between 1838 and 1843 he acted as director of the patrimonial court of Count von Hohenthal-Püchau in Mühltroff. At the same time he was the royal Saxon commissioner for the redemption of feudal charges in the Vogtland . In 1843 he was appointed district administrator of Freiberg .

Heubner belonged to the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848/49, where he initially joined the faction of the moderate left, but soon joined the decided left around Robert Blum . After he was elected in December 1848 in the 61st, 62nd and 63rd electoral districts as a candidate for the Fatherland Associations in the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament , he resigned his mandate in St. Paul's Church . In Saxony he vehemently advocated the imperial constitution drawn up and adopted by the national assembly and the fundamental rights for the German people anchored in it. During the Dresden May Uprising he was a member of the provisional government from May 4 to 9, 1849. On May 10, he was arrested in Chemnitz together with Mikhail Bakunin . After he had served pre-trial detention in Dresden and at the Königstein Fortress , he was brought to trial, in which he was sentenced to death on January 28, 1850 for high treason . The penalty but was already on 12 May 1850, a life sentence converted, he in prison Waldheim abbüßte. On May 28, 1859, on the occasion of the wedding of the Saxon Prince George, he received the pardon for his sentence, but without regaining his civil rights. As a result, he was no longer able to practice his profession as a lawyer.

In autumn 1859 he joined the legal advisory board of the Sächsische Hypotheken-Versicherungsgesellschaft in Dresden, becoming its second director in 1862 and finally taking over its directorate in 1865. After he had been granted civil rights again in 1865, he returned to Dresden as a lawyer in 1867. As a representative of the 15th rural electoral district, he was a member of the Second Saxon Chamber from 1869 to 1871. He was a member of the German Progressive Party . From 1869 he was city councilor of Dresden. In August 1871 he was appointed as a paid member to the council of the Saxon residence city, of which he was a member until his retirement in 1887. During this time, as head of the municipal education authority, he was entrusted with the development of the Dresden school system. Heubner died in 1893, his grave is in the old Annenfriedhof in Dresden.

He is the father of the doctor Johann Otto Leonhard Heubner . His brother is the lawyer Ernst Leonhard Heubner .

literature

  • Eduard Sparfeld: Otto Leonhard Heubner and his self-defense about his participation in the incidents in Dresden in May 1849 . Gebrüder Toll, Zwickau 1850. SLUB Dresden
  • Viktor Hantzsch :  Heubner, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 287-293.
  • Josef Matzerath: Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952. Sächsischer Landtag, Dresden 2001, pp. 43 and 105.
  • Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Formations and breaks in the bicameral parliament (1833–1868). Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2007, p. 53.
  • Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 395-396.
  • Otto Leonhard Heubner: Poems. For the sake of his family, edited by his brothers

Thost, Zwickau 1850.

  • Gustav Heubner: The combined Gutenberg and gymnastics festival in the city of Plauen on June 24, 1840, along with the speeches and songs sung. Wieprecht, Plauen 1840.
  • Kurt Meinel : Otto Leonhard Heubner. His life, his gymnastics and political significance Limpert, Dresden 1928.
  • Eugen Isolani: Otto Leonhard Heubner. Life picture of a German man , Dresden 1893.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Matzerath: Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 105 (listed as Otto Bernhard Heubner); Döscher / Schröder use his correct name
personal data
SURNAME Heubner, Otto Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, politician and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1893
Place of death Blowjoke