Philipp Peter Schmidt

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Philipp Peter Schmidt (born March 4, 1829 in Kaiserslautern ; † September 8, 1878 there ) was a Palatinate merchant. He was first adjunct of the city of Kaiserslautern and from 1876 to 1878 member of the Bavarian state parliament. Schmidt was sentenced to death in 1851 for agitation prior to the Palatinate uprising in 1849.

Life

Schmidt was the son of the butcher and innkeeper Philipp Abraham Schmidt (* 1806), who emigrated to America, and the Jacobine Franziska Hermann (1811–1839). He became editor of the liberal newspaper Bote für Stadt und Land , published by Nikolaus Schmitt .

In the course of the liberal movement of 1848/1849, Schmidt was appointed chairman of the Sonntagskranzchen , a democratic association in his home town. On April 29, 1849, he chaired the Palatinate Turner Congress . After the Palatinate uprising, Schmidt was taken into custody. The indictment file lists him for "agitation" under number 22. In the following high treason trial he was one of the four defendants who were sentenced to death in 1851 in the presence of the court. Schmidt was then pardoned for imprisonment and 20 years of forced labor and released in 1859.

After his release, the former "Scribent" became a businessman. He married Elisabetha Spener in 1860 and after her death in 1868 Caroline Margarethe Jacob from Schopp , where his father-in-law had been mayor during the liberal period from 1848 to 1850. Schmidt had nine children from both marriages.

After the departure of Johann Wilhelm Jacob , with whom his wife was related, he followed him on February 2, 1876 in the 27th and 28th state parliament of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies . His constituency was Kirchheim -Kaiserslautern, since 1877 Kaiserslautern. On June 12, he submitted his resignation for health reasons, which was approved on July 2, 1878. Philipp Schmidt died two months later. His successor as MP was Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg .

His son Franz Schmidt (1862-1924), a lawyer in Kaiserslautern and married to Emilie Knobloch, was expelled from the Palatinate by the French in 1923. His half-sister, Schmidt's daughter Charlotte, was married to the forest master Wilhelm Knobloch, who was sentenced by the French in 1923 to 18 months in prison and deportation.

literature

  • Walter Schmidt: Philipp Peter Schmidt. Otterbach 1981.
  • Rudolf H. Böttcher: Philipp Peter Schmidt - After the wreath, the whole harshness of the law . 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. 307, 280.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Schmidt's entry in the parliamentary database.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Philipp Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian MP, businessman and revolutionary 1848/1849
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1878
Place of death Kaiserslautern