Paul Stump
Paul Peter Stumpf (born August 5, 1826 in Mainz , † March 15, 1912 in Mainz) was a German politician and manufacturer .
Life
youth
Paul Peter Stumpf comes from a family that can be traced back to Mainz in 1729 and whose members were primarily active as well builders and pump makers. Born in Mainz in 1826 as the third of his parents' 12 children, nothing is known about Stumpf's childhood and youth. All that is known is that he first attended the Darmstadt Polytechnic and then studied hydraulic engineering at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic . During his studies in Karlsruhe he was active in a student union , dueling with a fellow student - a member of the Puricelli entrepreneurial family (family) from Rheinböllen , owners of the Rheinböllerhütte ironworks. Stump was injured in the right fist while he hit his opponent in the chest. The dates of his stays in Darmstadt and Karlsruhe could not yet be determined.
The 1840s
From 1843 to 1847 he received technical and commercial training in his father's company. At the end of 1846 he stayed in London to learn the language, and for the same reason in 1847/1848 in Brussels and Paris . At the beginning of 1847, Stumpf met Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in Brussels and became a member of the German workers' association there; from 1847 to 1852 he was also a member of the League of Communists . Then (from January to April 1848) he stayed in Paris and witnessed the February Revolution there . At the same time, he became demonstrably politically active for the first time by signing a newspaper advertisement with Karl Marx on March 13, 1848, in which the Germans in Paris were invited to join the “Club of German Workers”. On March 25, 1848, he had Sebastian Seiler as a guest in Paris and met Karl Marx on the (presumably) following day. Later he became good friends with him and Friedrich Engels. After returning to Mainz in 1848, he and his brother Gottfried helped found the workers' education association . From June 14 to 16, 1848, Stumpf took part in the Democratic Congress in Frankfurt am Main as a member of the Democratic Association of Mainz . He was a board member of the gymnastics club, the workers' club and the democratic club in Mainz. At a branch of the democratic association, the "Educational Association for Workers", Stumpf appeared regularly as a speaker in 1848/49. After the constitution put into force by the Frankfurt National Assembly on March 28, 1849, was rejected by Bavaria and Saxony, among others, revolts broke out in the (then Bavarian) Palatinate and Saxony. Stumpf initially took part in the Rhenish-Palatinate revolution by leading a company of 21 ammunition workers of the "Rheinhessischer Army Corps" in March 1849 as "captain" in the troop march in the Palatinate and fighting against Prussian troops at Kirchheimbolanden . In May 1849 he finally took part in the free march from Lichtenstein to Dresden , therefore wanted by the Schönburg Justice Office in Lichtenstein.
The labor movement
Probably in order to let the whole thing fall into oblivion, Stumpf worked again from October 1, 1849 to May 1, 1850 with Riche in Paris and lived there with Johann Jakob Schard. In May 1850 he was then accused in the "Rhenish High Treason Trial" for participating in the riots in the Palatinate, even temporarily imprisoned, but then acquitted. His role in this trial seems to have been an important one, as there is a lithograph of the 10 most important of a total of around 70 accused on which he is depicted.
In the spring of 1851, Stumpf is said to have distributed Giuseppe Mazzini's book "Republic and Kings". In addition, as an emissary he was in close contact with the later general in the US civil war, Alexander Schimmelfennig von der Oye, and is said to have been a supporter of the German movement party. In April and May 1851 he is in Strasbourg , from there he is said to have traveled several times to Cologne as an “ardent henchman of the revolutionary faction” with revolutionary writings; He is also referred to as the “tool of the Central Committee ”. At the same time he is named as an “active but subordinate member of democracy”. Because of this political activity, a house search was carried out on September 1, 1851. According to a police report from Dresden on October 7, 1851, he left for London to meet Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Oswald Dietz , August Schärttner and Karl Schapper , the "chiefs of the German communists". In fact, he was in London in mid-September 1851, but had not visited Marx. Perhaps because of the upcoming wedding with his bride from Frankfurt am Main, perhaps also because “the ground was getting too hot” for him in Mainz, Stumpf moved to Frankfurt in autumn 1851 and received - living at Römerberg 8 - on September 25th 1851 citizenship . In 1853 he was accepted into the trading stand in Frankfurt and was no longer just a mechanic , but traded “mechanical objects of all kinds” and repaired them. In the same year he went back to Mainz with his family, but still had a business in Frankfurt. In 1855, when the business was at Neue Kräme 6, he went bankrupt with his company, which ended his time in Frankfurt, even though he was mentioned in the address books until 1866 as a Frankfurt citizen with residence in Mainz. His political activity but sat Stumpf continued early 1852, John Schickel asked (probably alluding to the recently occurred marriage of truncated) at Adolf Cluss , "whether Paul Stumpf Philistines had gone, or whether he considered state?" Cluss writes to Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff: “I almost doubt the latter; Paul always wanted to touch everything, but just not so clumsily, with raw hands, without gloves ”.
According to a police report of April 24, 1852, he is a member of the workers' union in London. According to a directory from 1854, Stump worked for the purposes of the party of the revolution . He also seems to have been in Paris, because according to the weekly police report of March 28, 1854 from Berlin, his address was given on a note by Dr. Falkenthal found.
According to the weekly police report from Hanover on April 3, 1860 , he traveled constantly between Strasbourg and Cologne to distribute political writings, was considered a stooge of the Revolutionary Party and stood in Cologne with Dr. iur. Hermann Heinrich Becker in connection. In October 1865, Stumpf stayed again, this time on business in Paris. During the war in 1866 he took part in the founding of an "Association for the Support of Wounded Warriors" in Mainz, but not to support the state, but to alleviate "the growing need of the local working class". Although Stumpf was described as a social democrat as early as 1866 , in June 1867 he founded the Mainz section of the International Workers' Association (IAA) founded by Marx . In the same year he was still a member of the IAA Congress in Lausanne.
On May 12, 1867, the Central Rhine Workers 'Union was founded on the Workers' Day in (Wiesbaden-) Biebrich with the participation of Stumpf. Widowed at an early age, Stumpf seems to have been thinking of a new marriage since 1867 at the latest, because he wrote to a friend: "If you can sell me to a young rich widow (½ love + ½ money = 1 woman) ...". At the beginning of 1868 he founded a social democratic workers' association in Mainz, the core of which were the members of the Mainz IAA. This association went public with a “Manifesto of the Social Democratic Party”. In 1869, Stumpf was ultimately involved in founding the Social Democratic Workers 'Party (SDAP) in Eisenach by transferring "1,500 members of the German section of the International Workers' Association" to the SDAP. He was then a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party from the founding party congress.
Late years
In 1869 Karl Marx visited Stumpf in Mainz. On July 18, 1872, Stumpf wrote to Engels that he had "resigned from the public agitation". In fact, from then on he hardly appeared to have appeared politically in public, but he continued to correspond with old people until his death Companions. From 1870 to 1876 Stumpf had his business and his apartment in the corner house Schustergasse 45 / Stadionerhofstraße in Mainz, 1878 he lived in the house Große Bleiche 41, 1880–1883 in Platanenweg 2, from 1887 until his death he lived in Gartenfeldstraße 4 in Mainz . He married for the second time on March 11, 1880. In addition to Marx and Engels, his prominent friends also included the chairman of the Paulskirche assembly and later Hessian Prime Minister Heinrich von Gagern , August Bebel and Ferdinand Lassalle, as well as Wilhelm Liebknecht (whose son Karl Liebknecht he was even godfather ) and allegedly Giuseppe Garibaldi .
Stumpf died on March 15, 1912 in Mainz. In 1911, Stumpf gave his written notes and other documents to the city library as a handover . The extensive materials (approx. 3 running meters) are evidence of his business activity and preoccupation with city-Mainz affairs, but do not provide any information about his political activities. You are now in the Mainz City Archives as "NL Paul Stumpf" . Stumpf also parted with parts of his book collection during his lifetime and left them to the Mainz City Library , of which he was also a user. For the year 1893, the literary estate is mentioned in the annual reports of the city library and city collections (Mainz city archive, holdings 72/195); In addition, the city library's indexes of growth for 1924 show the addition of 38 volumes and 27 brochures or booklets. Only a few copies from Paul Stumpf's library have so far been identified through provenance research . They are stamped with the name PAUL STUMPF .
Family and private
On October 22nd, 1851, Stumpf married Maria Margaretha “Gretchen” Vogt. The couple had one child: Johanna Elisabetha Pauline called Lilli (* October 27, 1852; † March 11, 1883), married since September 2, 1872 to Johannes Theodor Alexander Andreae (1846–1926).
On March 11, 1880, Stumpf married his second wife Anna Maria Harburger (1849–1914), with whom he had another child: Amalie Pauline “Addie” (1883–1965), married to Carl Renninger since 1906 . The biographical information on Stumpf's student duel that is not passed on elsewhere is based on the autobiography of his daughter from his second marriage.
literature
- Georg Eckert : On the history of the "Sections" Wiesbaden and Mainz of the International Workers' Association , in: Archive for Social History 8 (1968), pp. 365-523.
- Albrecht Eckhardt: Workers' Movement and Social Democracy in the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1860–1900 , in: Archive for Hessian History and Classical Antiquities , New Series 34 (1976), pp. 171–493. (here: pp. 197f., 199, 208, 210, 214, 262)
- Josef Heinzelmann : Carl Wallau and the co-founders of the Mainz labor movement , in: Mainz and the social question in the middle of the 19th century. Catalog for the exhibition in the town hall foyer Mainz August 4–4 , 1977, Mainz 1977, pp. 29–38.
- Jürgen Herrlein : The Mainz revolutionary Paul Stumpf and his ancestors , in: Genealogy. German Journal for Family Studies 47/48 (1998/99), pp. 356–368.
- Heinz Monz : Paul Stumpf from Mainz in his connection to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. At the same time a contribution to the history of the Mainz labor movement , in: Archive for Hessian History and Antiquity , New Series 44 (1986), pp. 235–362.
- Heinz Monz : Paul Stumpf (1826–1912) , in: Rheinische Lebensbilder , 11 (1988), pp. 221–233.
- Helmut Mathy : Paul Stumpf from Mainz , in: MAINZ quarterly books for history, culture, politics, economy 8 (1988), no. 4, pp. 148-150. [= Review of Monz, 1986]
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Holger Paul: Inventory of the legacies of the German labor movement. Munich, London, New York, Paris: KG Saur, 1993, p. 625.
- ↑ Volkszeitung [Mainz] No. 64 of March 15, 1912, 1st supplement = obituary for Paul Stumpf. "He packed his written estate in eight large boxes and handed it over to the city library for safekeeping some time ago."
- ↑ Addie Renninger: Memories from my life . Frankfurt am Main, 1954. The private printing could not yet be determined in any library .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blunt, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stumpf, Paul Peter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician and manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1912 |
| Place of death | Mainz |