Philipp Lindemann

Philipp Lindemann

Johann Philipp Quinctius Lindemann (* 1783 , † 1861 ) was a lawyer in Eutin who cared about the needs of the poor or the poor.

Life

Without a law degree, Philipp Lindemann first worked as a private tutor in Eutin, but was then able to work as a lawyer there. During the war of liberation against the Napoleonic occupation around 1813, he acquired some fortune, which he lost again until he went bankrupt. This probably gave rise to a bitterness that led him to stand up as an “advocate for the poor”.

By submitting petitions , he attempted to eliminate the housing shortage in and around Eutin in 1830, to provide vegetable garden land and to reduce the tax burden. This was unsuccessful in the short term, and so the so-called Heueristen revolt against the ruling offices took place in 1832 due to the housing shortage and high unemployment of the rural population without land or property . (Heueristen were day laborers who lived for rent.) The arrest of the Bujendorfer ringleaders sparked street fighting in Eutin, in which the day laborer Dietrich Schröder from Meinsdorf was shot.

He was also against the stationing of the military in Eutin and urged a promise that had been made in 1815 to draw up a constitution.

Overall, however, there were improvements in the living conditions of the affected group of people with a time lag. After all, Lindemann was a senior judge in Eutin. In 1848 he was elected to the assembly of 34 in the constituency of the Principality of Lübeck / Amt Eutin and then from 1848 to 1853, 1854 and 1857 to 1859 in the Oldenburg Landtag . He contributed to the constitution of the state of Oldenburg .

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• Ernst Schütt - The "revolutionary" lawyer Lindemann in Eutin. In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde - Eutin ( Heimatverband Eutin ); Eutin 1980 (pages 93-97)
• Monika Wegmann-Fetsch: The revolution of 1848 in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. 1974, ISBN 3-87358-067-5 , p. 240.
• Albrecht Eckhard From the bourgeois revolution to the National Socialist takeover of power - The Oldenburg State Parliament and its Members 1848–1933, 1996, ISBN 3-89598-327-6 , p. 101.