Tübingen Gôgen uprising

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The Tübingen Gôgen uprising was a tumult among the Tübingen lower town vineyards on January 22, 1831, as a result of which the security guard was founded in Tübingen.

trigger

On an evening patrol on Sunday, January 16, 1831, the country hunter Michael Hauser met the slightly intoxicated vine gardener and craftsman Ludwig Kost and wanted to arrest him. When he resisted, Hauser seriously injured him with a sword blow. This arbitrary act sparked outrage among the Gôgen and stirred up the old hatred of the entire police force, about twenty men, which the State Commissioner, Chief Justice Officer Karl Hofacker had brought with him as a security command in 1825 and which was still stationed in Tübingen. The individual conflict quickly became a collective matter for the Gôgen.

Landjäger fleeing the city of Tübingen on January 23, 1832 ( gouache by Carl Baumann )

course

The situation escalated when, on the evening of January 22nd, the crowd gathered in front of the house of the chief bailiff demanded the withdrawal of the police force from the city and threatened manslaughter. In order to avoid worse, the city director ordered the commando to march quietly to Waldenbuch through the Dreckstörle at the turnip hole.

consequences

The student guard in Tübingen on January 23, 1831 ( gouache by Carl Baumann)

Although there were no major attacks, the city manager was concerned about maintaining the legal order, especially since there was no lack of anonymous threatening and incendiary letters. The University Chancellor Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Autenrieth turned to the leaders of the student corporations, which were banned by the order of King Wilhelm I in 1825, and asked for help in the event of riots. They gladly pledged help. About 600 willing students quickly formed a security team, in which the connections formed the cadres of the individual sections. In order to arm the security guard, the students were given back the clubs and sabers that had previously been confiscated by the university. In this way, the paradoxical situation arose that illegal groups became protectors of law and order. At the same time, the students proved with their attitude loyal to the state that they rejected solidarity with the class of "troublemakers" Gôgen. Because this “lower class” was socially far below the level of the educated and wealthy bourgeoisie, from which the majority of the students came. Before 1848, democratically minded students were a vanishing exception.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Reinhard Müth: Confession to Black-Red-Gold , p. 263
  2. ^ A b Andrea Bachmann: Gôgen Uprising 1831
  3. ↑ a b Reinhard Müth: Confession to Black-Red-Gold , p. 264

literature

  • Andrea Bachmann: Gôgen uprising 1831. Tübingen wine growers went to the barricades . In: “Tagblatt Anzeiger” January 18, 2017
  • Martin Scharfe (ed.): The other Tübingen. Culture and way of life of the Lower City in the 19th century , Tübingen: Tübingen Association for Folklore 1978
  • Reinhard Müth: Commitment to black-red-gold. The liberal-national idea in the Tübingen student body from 1813 to 1848 . In: Contributions to the history of the University of Tübingen 1477–1977 , ed. by Hansmartin Decker-Hauff , Gerhard Fichtner and Klaus Schreiner, edited by Wilfried Setzler, Tübingen: Attempto 1977, pp. 251–284
  • Reinhard Müth: Tübingen and the French July Revolution. A contribution to the history of Württemberg liberalism in the Metternich period . In: “Attempto” 35/36, 1970, pp. 3–21