Peter Fries

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Peter Fries as a legal candidate (1847)
Announcement of the provisional government of the Palatinate on the separation of the Palatinate from Bavaria, 1849

Christian Peter Fries (born November 12, 1820 in Grünstadt , † July 31, 1851 in Montpellier ) was a German politician and revolutionary.

Life

Fries was a son of the justice of the peace and landowner Christian Ernst Fries and his wife Caroline Haffner. He attended the Grünstadt Latin School and the Speyer high school and studied law in Würzburg from 1841 . There he founded the Corps Rhenania in 1842 , of which he became President and honorary member.

As a legal candidate in Frankenthal , he became a co-founder of the city's democratic association in 1848. On the evening of May 2, 1849, he was elected to the ten-member " State Committee for the Defense and Implementation of the Imperial Constitution " in Kaiserslautern . There he was one of the active members.

On May 17, a meeting of 28 representatives of the Palatinate cantons voted with a narrow majority (15:13 votes) for the Palatinate uprising as part of the imperial constitutional campaign . Subsequently, Fries was elected as a substitute in a provisional government with 28 votes, and through the " Loos" he became the 2nd substitute . Since several of the elected did not appear there, he moved up.

As Minister of Justice, Fries was a member of the five-member provisional government of the Rhine Palatinate . After the uprising was put down, he fled to France via Switzerland in June. He studied medicine in Montpellier, but died of typhus in 1851 . Previously, it had the Palatine Court of Appeal in Two Bridges in absentia for high and treason to death sentenced. He was in seventh place on the indictment file.

family

Fries had 12 older siblings, his brother Eduard was a participant in the Frankfurt Wachensturm in 1833 , his brother Christian was a doctor in Grünstadt and in 1848 he was involved in founding the Volksverein. One of the sisters, Ernestine Augustine, had married the Frankenthal lawyer Carl Alexander Spatz, who represented the constituency in the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848/49 .

Helene Haffner, the grandmother of the Fries siblings, was a cousin of Johann Wolfgang Goethe .

swell

  • Indictment files, drawn up by the K. General State Procuratorate of the Palatinate, together with the verdict of the Prosecution Chamber of the K. Court of Appeal of the Palatinate in Zweibrücken on June 29, 1850, in the investigation against Martin Reichard, dismissed notary in Speyer, and 332 consorts because of armed rebellion against armed power, high treason and state treason, etc., Zweibrücken 1850

literature

  • Rudolf H. Böttcher: Peter Fries - Goethe's relatives make revolution in the Palatinate. In: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution 1848/1849. A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution. Special issue of the Association for Palatinate-Rhenish Family Studies. Volume 14. Issue 6. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1999. pp. 289f, 261, 286ff.
  • Rudolf H. Böttcher: "Quite the man to start a revolution": Peter Fries, 1849 first Palatine Minister of Justice. in: Die Rheinpfalz of October 2, 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the status of the Latin School in Grünstadt in Bavaria. Rheinkkreis , 1832, p. 5; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ Genealogical website about the person
personal data
SURNAME Fries, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fries, Christian Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1851
Place of death Montpellier