Titus Mareck

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Titus Mareck (born April 8, 1819 in Graz , † 1851 in New Braunfels / Texas ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician.

Life

Mareck studied law at the University of Graz and joined the movement of 1848 as a young lawyer . From May 18, 1848 to May 30, 1849 as a representative of Lichtenwald ( Cilli district ) member of the German constituent national assembly in Frankfurt am Main , he was a member of the radical left group “ Donnersberg ”, which split up in June 1848 from the faction “ Deutscher Hof ”(around Robert Blum and Carl Vogt ) split off.

In order to anticipate Slovene and Czech demands ( Prague Slavonic Congress ), Mareck submitted a motion at the session on May 27, 1848, which was supposed to guarantee the rights of non-German-speaking nationalities on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany and was accepted in a modified form on May 31, 1848. In the debate on §§ 2 and 3 (concerning the non-German states) of the draft of the Constitutional Committee on October 26, 1848, Mareck denied the prospect that Austria would remain a state as a whole; if this were possible, however, there would be no connection to Germany.

On October 27, 1848, Mareck voted for the adoption of §§ 2 and 3 of the aforementioned draft. Mareck's radical proposal that all German princes renounce the government for themselves and their successors so that the National Assembly could choose a prince from these families to head the constitutional, democratic German monarchy , did not come up for discussion.

In 1849 Mareck emigrated to North America to start a new life. He then lived in Galveston and New Braunfels, but soon succumbed to yellow fever .

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SURNAME Mareck, Titus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH 1851
Place of death New Braunfels , Texas