Theodor Mögling

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Theodor Mögling

Theodor Mögling (born December 2, 1814 in Brackenheim , † April 17, 1867 in Göppingen ) was a silk construction specialist , politician and leading revolutionary in the Baden revolution of 1848/49.

Life

The former Latin school in Brackenheim, the birthplace of Theodor Mögling, around 1900

Theodor Mögling was the third child of the Preceptor Friedrich Mögling, who ran the Brackenheim Latin School from 1811 to 1819 .

At the age of 16, Theodor Mögling began studying medicine in Tübingen , where he became a member of the Feuerreiter fraternity in 1831 . After participating in a student casserole to celebrate the Paris Democrats in 1833 he fell into custody and forced his studies to abort. For this reason Mögling attended the Agricultural Academy in Hohenheim from autumn 1836 , where he devoted himself to silk making with great commitment. In 1842 he was appointed to Hohenheim as a silk breeding teacher and in 1846 received the title of economics councilor.

As a member of the Second Wuerttemberg Chamber of Commerce, Mögling took part in the Frankfurt pre-parliament , where he joined the Baden republicans led by Friedrich Hecker and Gustav Struve . Mögling took a leading role in all three Baden surveys of 1848/49. In the battle on the Scheideck in April 1848 he covered the withdrawal of the defeated Hecker train , in the battle near Waghäusel on June 20, 1849 he was seriously wounded and was taken prisoner by the Prussians. He was sentenced to death before the Mannheim court martial , but was then pardoned to a prison sentence of several years, which he spent in solitary confinement in the Bruchsal cell prison until 1856.

After his release, Mögling went to Switzerland , where he initially worked as the technical director of a peat company. In addition, he published his autobiography in Solothurn , in which he v. a. deals with the revolutionary events. In the summer of 1859 he visited the freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi during the Second Italian War of Independence .

Returning to Württemberg, Mögling acquired an agricultural property which he cultivated himself. After several strokes, he died - mentally deranged - in the Göppingen sanatorium.

Literary reception

The writer Georg Heym wrote the unfinished fragment of the drama The Revolution with Theodor Mögling in the lead role in 1908/09 .

Works (selection)

Title page of the Political Catechism written by Mögling
  • Guide to mulberry planting and silk farming. Tübingen 1841 Google digitized
  • A few words about the draft law on irrigation and drainage systems for Württemberg. Stuttgart, 1843 digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
  • The silk breeding and its introduction in Germany , Stuttgart 1844. 2nd edition 1847 ( digitized ).
  • The latest in agriculture and forestry, as well as their technical minor subjects; or a compact, systematically ordered excerpt from the minutes of the meetings of German farmers and foresters from 1837–1844. Carl Mäcken's Verlag, Reutlingen 1846. Google digitized version
  • Political Catechism , Strasbourg 1848.
  • Letters to his friends , Solothurn 1858 ( digitized version ).
    • New edition: For freedom and democracy. Notes from an 1848 revolutionary , reissued by Giovanna-Beatrice Carlesso. Carlesso Verlag, Brackenheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-939333-07-4 .
  • A visit to Garibaldi in the summer of 1859 , Zurich 1860 ( digitized ).

literature

  • Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau : Biographical-genealogical sheets from and about Swabia. Verlag E. Mueller, Stuttgart 1879, pp. 561-572 online in the Internet Archive
  • August Wintterlin :  Mögling, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 52-54.
  • Peter P. Albert: Theodor Moegling's diary from April 10 to 23, 1848. A contribution to the history of the republican uprising in Baden. In: Journal of the Society for the Promotion of History, Antiquity and Folklore of Freiburg, the Breisgau and the adjacent landscapes 25, 1909, pp. 125–146.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 120-121.
  • Giovanna-Beatrice Carlesso: From silk to musket. The 1848 revolutionary Theodor Mögling. In: Theodor Mögling: For freedom and democracy. Messages from an 1848 revolutionary, Brackenheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-939333-07-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ Giovanna-Beatrice Carlesso: "From silk to musket", p. 27

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personal data
SURNAME Mögling, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mögling, Friedrich Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Brackenheim
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1867
Place of death Goeppingen