Theodor Frey (politician, 1814)

Theodor Frey

Theodor Frey (born February 14, 1814 in Neustadt an der Haardt ; † April 21, 1897 in Eberbach ) was the Eberbach representative in the Constituent Assembly for Baden 1848 . Frey, who was nationally liberal during the Baden Revolution of 1848/49, was the initiator of the German Trade Convention in 1860 , as well as a local council, district assembly member and chamber representative and was made an honorary citizen of Eberbach in 1894 for his diverse commitment.

Life

Frey grew up in Neustadt an der Haardt as the son of a wine merchant and landowner. After taking part in the Hambach Festival as drum major of the Neustadt Music Association , he went into exile in France in 1833 because he saw himself being persecuted by the Bavarian troops due to a mix-up in connection with unrest on the anniversary of the Hambach Festival. Back in the Rhineland Palatinate, which belongs to Bavaria, he was acquitted in 1835 of the charge of resisting the military. Frey became a wine merchant, married into the important Knecht-Leutz family of wine merchants from Eberbach, moved to Eberbach in 1842 and acquired citizenship there in 1844 .

When unrest broke out in Eberbach in March 1848 against the lineage and the margravial Baden rent officials at Castle Zwingenberg , Frey belonged to a group of citizens who persuaded District Administrator Hüsch to resign, but who subsequently also visited the Baden government in Karlsruhe to order To reject revolutionary request and to acknowledge the liberal-constitutional direction of the government. Then he was one of the eight Eberbach electors who determined the members of the constituency comprising the districts of Eberbach , Mosbach , Adelsheim and Tauberbischofsheim for the Frankfurt National Assembly in the Adelsheim Church . In July 1848 Frey was one of the co-founders of the Democratic Association in Eberbach, whose chairman he became and remained after the association was temporarily banned after it was re-established in February 1849. On 12./13. May 1849 Frey was a delegate of the city of Eberbach at the Offenburg assembly , where he was one of the supporters of Lorenz Brentano , who took over the chairmanship of the provisional state government the following day and on May 17th Frey appointed civil commissioner for Eberbach, who was to organize the people's armament and the Officials had to swear in. Frey took from the officials both the oath on the new Reich constitution and the old Baden constitution. On June 3, 1849, Frey was elected by the citizens of Eberbach as the city's representative at the Constituent Assembly for Baden. Frey was reluctant to attend the meeting and mostly voted against radical proposals.

When the Baden Revolution was suppressed in June 1849, he fled to France via Karlsruhe. In April 1850 he was acquitted of suspicion of high treason and returned to Eberbach. In 1858 he was instrumental in the first, but unsuccessful attempt to found a volunteer fire department in Eberbach.

In 1860 he initiated the trade fair in Heidelberg from 13th to 18th May 1861 first held General German Trade Day , the forerunner of today's German Chamber of Industry and Commerce . In 1861 he was also elected to the Eberbach municipal council. He campaigned for the construction of the Neckar Valley Railway early on and founded the Eberbacher Gewerbeverein in 1865, a few years after the creation of trade freedom. In 1865 he promoted the establishment of a secondary school for girls in Eberbach, which, after a short period of deficit, was continued as a private school by the city.

After Eberbach had been assigned to the Mosbach district , Frey achieved a seat in the district assembly in the 1865 elections, to which he belonged until 1895 and which he chaired from 1880 to 1882 and from 1894 to 1895. From 1867 to 1880 he was also a member of the National Liberals in the second chamber of the Baden state parliament , where he was a member of the budget commission.

In 1871 he suggested the establishment of the Eberbacher Beautification Association to promote tourism. In 1888 he founded a section of the Odenwald Club in Eberbach .

Frey was made an honorary citizen of Eberbach in 1894 for his diverse commitment. In addition, the commercial vocational school with vocational college, vocational college and the Theodor Frey School of Economics has been named after him since 1989 .

literature

• A. Cser, R. Vetter, H. Joho: History of the city of Eberbach Volume 2: From the 16th century to the present . ISBN 3-7995-4085-7

• Roland Vetter: Theodor Frey - His life and time. A biographical sketch of the initiator of the German Trade Conference using his memoirs.

Edited and commented by Roland Vetter. Eberbach / Heidelberg 1986. For the 125th anniversary of the German Industry and Trade Congress. Publisher: Deutscher Industrie- und Handelstag (DIHT) Bonn, Chamber of Industry and Commerce Rhein-Neckar, Mannheim, Volksbank Eberbach eG. Total production: Laub GmbH & Co., 6957 Elztal-Dallau

• Dr. John Gustav Weiss: History of the city of Eberbach am Neckar, 2nd edition 1927, self-published by the city of Eberbach, pages 200–211.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor Frey School Eberbach about Theodor Frey , requested on May 1, 2014