Valentin Blind

Valentin Blind (born September 16, 1824 in Mannheim ; † February 1, 1871 in Baden-Baden ) was a German revolutionary and engineer .

Life

Valentin Blind, brother of Karl Blind , studied at the Polytechnic School in Karlsruhe from 1841 to 1846 and became a member of the Karlsruhe fraternity of Teutonia in 1843/44 .

At the beginning of 1848 he and his brother were on the board of the Karlsruhe workers' association. On February 29, 1848, his brother and two other board members were arrested because rumors of workers' actions against the armory and castle were planned. He was released the following day.

In the same year Blind became a "war pupil of the field artillery" and was relocated with his regiment to northern Germany during the Schleswig-Holstein War . In 1849 he was elected lieutenant in the foot artillery as a gunner in the officer elections in Karlsruhe . In the same year he was involved in various mutinies . On June 7, 1879, he led the battery from Karlsruhe to Freiburg im Breisgau, and on June 10, 1849, he was involved in the bombardment of the Germersheim bridgehead . In Huttenheim (Philippsburg) he was taken prisoner and later of treason accused and mutiny and to ten years in prison convicted.

In the summer of 1856, after seven years in prison, he was pardoned and went to Rotterdam and to his brother in London . Later worked as an engineer in Mannheim, Geneva and Bühl (Baden) .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 98-99.
• Heinrich Raab: Revolutionaries in Baden 1848/49. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1998 ISBN 3-17-015373-0 .