Theodor Griebel

Theodor Georg Friedrich Milder Berthus Griebel (* December 24, 1838 in Heide , † February 15, 1875 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer and politician of the Augustburg movement .

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As a member of the Griebel family, Theodor Griebel was a son of the pfennig master Friedrich Griebel and his wife Louise Caroline Ernestine Johannsen. He had two sisters who died young. Griebel himself remained unmarried until the end of his life.

Giebel studied at the Christianeum until the spring of 1859 . He then studied philology at the University of Kiel, broke off his studies in 1864 and worked as a secretary to Professor Karl Friedrich Lucian Samwer . At the same time he started studying law and finished it in 1867 with an exam at the Kiel Higher Appeal Court. He then studied law in Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in law in May 1871. At the end of 1871 he returned to Kiel as a resident lawyer.

After Prussia had annexed the duchies, Griebel appeared politically. He joined the Schleswig-Holstein Liberal Party , in which he led the so-called middle bloc around Albert Hänel and Wilhelm Hans Ahlmann , which was pro-Prussian, and which wanted to work with the German Progressive Party . As a result, the Democrats split off in 1868 and formed a new party. In 1870 the bloc around Ahlmann and Hänel agreed an election campaign alliance with the Progressive Party. The remaining liberals, who rejected the Prussian solution to the Schleswig-Holstein question , then formed the German-Schleswig-Holstein party , also known as the "state party", with the democrats .

The German-Schleswig-Holstein party wanted to reverse the annexation of the duchies. The party's leadership wanted to convene a state assembly based on the 1848 constitution. Such a parliament should bring about an independent Schleswig-Holstein. The party used Eduard von Baudissin's “Wochenblatt für Schleswig-Holstein” for its public relations work, which was edited by the teacher AP Sönksen. Griebel wrote under the pseudonym "Der Rechtsfreund" columns for the Itzehoer Nachrichten, which the state party did not reject until 1873.

Inauguration of the Lornsen monument in Rendsburg, in: Die Gartenlaube (1879)

In 1873 he moved from Baudissin to Lübeck . Thereafter, Griebel led the party, whose members included almost exclusively people who defended the Augustenburg inheritance claim. Griebel acquired Baudissin's weekly paper and published it as the Schleswig-Holstein weekly paper . From May 1874 this served as a newsletter for the comrades-in-arms instead of the Itzehoer Nachrichten. In the same year Griebel was a member of an executive committee of the state committee that planned the construction of a Lornsen memorial as part of the 25th anniversary of the Schleswig-Holstein survey. The event should initially take place in Kiel, against which the local authorities protested. Instead, the rally to lay the foundation stone of the monument took place in Rendsburg and was noticed throughout Schleswig-Holstein. It was the last major demonstration that was Augustburg separatist.

Since he did not want to swear an oath of allegiance to the Prussian king, Griebel did not stand up as a candidate for the elections of the Prussian state parliament. Instead, he ran in the state elections in 1873 and the Reichstag election in January 1874 for constituency 5 (Dithmarschen and Steinburg). He received the majority of the votes in Dithmarschen, but Karl Lorentzen won the constituency as a whole . Griebel's party lost more and more members, most of whom switched to the German Progressive Party .

Griebel died in 1875. The remaining party members used his funeral for an anti-Prussian demonstration. Griebel sent his estate to those in need. Among them was the teacher AP Sönksen, who lost his job due to his political activities.

literature

• Dietrich Korth, Hartwig Molzow: Griebel, Theodor . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982-2011, 1991, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , Volume 9, pp. 132-134.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Dietrich Korth, Hartwig Molzow: Griebel, Theodor . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982-2011, 1991, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , Volume 9, p. 132.
2. ↑ Dietrich Korth, Hartwig Molzow: Griebel, Theodor . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982-2011, 1991, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , Volume 9, pp. 132-133.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Dietrich Korth, Hartwig Molzow: Griebel, Theodor . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982-2011, 1991, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , Volume 9, p. 133.
4. ↑ Dietrich Korth, Hartwig Molzow: Griebel, Theodor . In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982-2011, 1991, ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , Volume 9, pp. 133-134.