Theodor Olshausen

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Theodor Olshausen

Theodor Olshausen (born June 19, 1802 in Glückstadt ; † March 31, 1869 in Hamburg ) was a German Schleswig-Holstein politician in the Duchy of Holstein. After emigrating to the United States, he was a successful journalist.

Life

Theodor Olshausen was a son of the theologian Detlev Olshausen . He attended the scholars' school in Glückstadt and then the Grand Ducal High School in Eutin . From the winter semester of 1820/21 he studied law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1820 he became a member of the Old Kiel Burschenschaft . From the winter semester of 1821/22 he continued his studies at the University of Jena . In 1821 he became a member of the Jena fraternity . There he was also a member of the Youth Union and therefore got involved in the police investigation against the Youth Union in 1823 after his return to the University of Kiel. Wanted in a poster, he fled to Paris via Amsterdam. From 1825 to 1827 he lived as a private tutor in Basel under a false name . In 1827 he returned to Paris. Through the mediation of his federal brother Uwe Jens Lornsen , he was able to return to Kiel in 1828 and presented himself to the academic court . In April 1829 his application for graduation was granted and he was able to finish his law studies with the state examination in Glückstadt in autumn 1829. In 1830 he worked with Carl Friedrich Heiberg , among others, for a more liberal constitution. From 1830 to 1839 he was an advocate in Glückstadt, and from 1839 to 1843 a clerk at the lower court there.

He was an important publisher of the university city of Kiel and editor of the Korrespondenzblatt , the largest newspaper in what was then Kiel. He campaigned for the construction of the Altona – Kiel railway line , of which he was a member of the board of directors from 1844 to 1848. His participation in illegal public assemblies in 1846 led to his arrest on September 1, 1846. The arrest of Olshausen in the Rendsburg fortress until mid-October 1846 contributed to his popularity among the people. In 1847 he was elected to the Holstein Assembly for the city of Kiel . In the March Revolution he took part in the combined assembly of the Schleswig and Holstein estates on March 18, 1848. He was sent by them as one of five representatives to Copenhagen to bring the demands of the assembly to King Frederick VII .

Elevation

Provisional government of Schleswig-Holstein 1848

After this mission failed, the Provisional Government (Schleswig-Holstein) was formed in Kiel on March 23 . After his return from Copenhagen on March 28, Theodor Olshausen joined the Provisional Government. In it he represented the radical democratic wing of the revolutionaries. In protest against the Treaty of Malmö (1848) , Olshausen announced his resignation from the government on August 16. The resignation was accepted on August 19 by the Schleswig-Holstein State Assembly . Olshausen traveled to Frankfurt am Main to oppose the ratification of the treaty in the Frankfurt National Assembly , which he failed to do. On September 11, 1848, he was elected to the state assembly in a by-election in the constituency of Itzehoe, where he was the spokesman for the Left, that is, the Radical Democrats. He was the editor of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitung and later the North German Free Press . After the state assembly dissolved itself on January 11, 1851, he first went to Hamburg.

Theodor Olshausen , collective grave Schleswig-Holstein , Ohlsdorf cemetery

exile

In 1856, when he was 48, he went into exile in America . After four years in Davenport (Iowa) he became editor and together with Henry Lischer owner of the newspaper The Democrat (1860-1865). He was editor of the Western Post in St. Louis and promoted journalist Joseph Pulitzer . He was a confidante of Frederik Tillmann . He moved to Zurich in 1865 and to Hamburg in 1868.

In the Ohlsdorf cemetery , the Schleswig-Holstein collective grave plate of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery commemorates Theodor Olshausen, among others.

Honors

Information column in Olshausenstrasse in Kiel

Bears his name in Kiel the Olshausenstraße that leads to the university.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Theodor Olshausen  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 274.
personal data
SURNAME Olshausen, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American publisher and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Glückstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1869
Place of death Hamburg