Peter Joseph Ninety

Peter Joseph Neunzig (born March 9, 1797 in Düsseldorf , † March 4, 1877 in Gerresheim ) was a German medic and revolutionary.

Life

Peter Joseph Neunzig was born in 1797 in the old town of Düsseldorf . The exact date is unknown, it is believed to be March 9th. His parents, Peter and Christina Neunzig, ran a restaurant on Bolkerstraße 45, which is now a brewery at Schlüssel . Nothing further is known about the school career of ninety. He developed an interest in medical subjects and drawing at an early age. In April 1815, at the age of 18, he was accepted into the Prussian army as "Eleve of the Lazaret Direction". After only ten months of training, he was discharged from military service as a "Lazareth surgeon" with distinction. In the years 1817-18 studied ninety at the University of Muenster two semesters medicine and moved in October 1819, to the newly founded University of Bonn , where also Heinrich Heine specialist jurisprudence had enrolled. Heine and 90 knew each other from childhood, they were of the same age and grew up only three houses apart on Bolkerstrasse. The two of them lived close together on Bonn's Josefstrasse even during their years of study . Like Heine, Ninety came from the Jewish milieu in Düsseldorf and sympathized with the political avant-garde of the Rhineland, which was involved in the democratic movement in Germany .

Even before he began his studies, Peter Neunzig was suspected of having participated in a politically motivated torchlight procession on the sixth anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig . The young man was threatened with the end of his academic career. Due to exonerating statements from fellow students, including Heinrich Heine, Neunzig was finally able to continue his studies in Bonn. During his studies in 1820 he became a member of the Old Bonn Burschenschaft / general public . In 1823 his dissertation De sanguine verlisque fluidis animalibus experimenta microscopica was published . In the period up to the granting of the license to practice medicine in 1828, Neunzig published several works, including two books on popular science and medicine.

In February 1829, Peter Joseph Neunzig settled in the small town of Gerresheim east of Düsseldorf and opened a medical practice. In the same year he married Jeannette Kaufmann, the daughter of a Jewish businessman from Bonn. Jeanette was the mother of their son Carl August, born in 1824. She had previously converted to Catholicism and was baptized in the name of Anna Maria Johanna. In October 1829 a daughter was born who was named Jeannette. Anna Maria died in 1841 and Ninety was a widower. In the same year he married Josefa Türffs from Gerresheim. Josefa died in 1844 giving birth to a child, who also died shortly afterwards.

As a “community doctor for the poor”, Ninety could earn little and live modestly with his two children. The rural, bourgeois and Catholic small town of Gerresheim saw the first settlements of industrial plants from 1838, which gradually led to a change in the social structure. Ninety was socio-politically close to the ideas of the labor movement that was just developing . Ninety had contact with Ferdinand Lassalle and was an active participant in relevant political meetings. At the beginning of April 1848, Peter Joseph Neunzig was elected to the pre- parliament.

When the suppression of the March Revolution began in May 1849 , Ninety was also active. In the meantime, looking for a profile, he called on the assembled crowd on the Düsseldorf market square from the Cantador family's house to support the fight in Elberfeld , where a "provisional government of the newly formed Rhenish Republic " had previously been proclaimed. As a result, there were bloody clashes with 14 dead and numerous injured. Ninety was charged as a " ringleader ", but initially escaped the trial. He was finally in 1850 to five years in prison convicted. Ultimately, the sentence was softened in fortress detention.

After serving his prison sentence, Ninety returned to Gerresheim, where he practiced as a doctor until around 1870. Peter Joseph Neunzig died on March 4, 1877 shortly before his eightieth birthday.

Honors

His hometown Düsseldorf honored him with the naming of a street in Gerresheim, which is now incorporated into Düsseldorf, on February 12, 1957. The Gerresheimer Heimatbrunnen was decorated with a portrait of the doctor by the sculptor Karl-Heinz Klein in 1973.

literature

• Ingrid Bodsch (Ed.): Harry Heine stud. juris in Bonn 1891/20: For Heinrich Heine's first year of study (1797-1856) and for the Bonn stud book pages from 1820. med. Joseph Neunzig (1797-1877) , Stadtmuseum Bonn, 1997
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 203-204.

Web links

• Website of the Rhineland Regional Council: Personalities - Peter Joseph Neunzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H. Ferber; In: Historical walk through the old city of Düsseldorf , published by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein; Verlag C. Kraus, 1889, Part I, p. 119.
2. ↑ Gerhart Söhn: The Rhenish European Heinrich Heine from Düsseldorf: a local historical consideration . 1st edition. Edition GS, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-921342-37-6 , p. 48 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ^ Barbara Suchy: Düsseldorf . In: Ludger Heid, Julius H. Schoeps, Marina Sassenberg (eds.): Guide through the Jewish Rhineland . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87584-385-1 , p. 70
4. ↑ Federal Archives: The members of the preliminary parliament and the Fifties Committee ( Memento of the original of August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ^ Dietmar Niemann: The revolution of 1848/49 in Düsseldorf . Self-published by the Düsseldorf City Archives, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-926490-02-0 . P. 225f.
6. ^ Hermann Kleinfeld: Dusseldorf's streets and their names. Grupello, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-928234-36-6 . P. 246f.