Viktor Valdenaire

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Viktor Nikolaus Valdenaire (born January 2, 1812 in Saarburg , Germany ; † June 18, 1881 in Trier ) was a manufacturer, member of the Prussian National Assembly , landowner of the Roscheider Hof and one of the revolutionaries of the revolution of 1848/49 in Trier. Through his political commitment and the Valdenairian affair described , he was a pioneer in the immunity of MPs .

Life

Youth and pre-revolutionary times

Nikolaus Valdenaire's only son, along with three daughters, attended the Trier grammar school in Trier , where he graduated from high school in 1834, a year before Karl Marx . He then began studying law in Bonn , which he broke off after two semesters. He took over his father's business in Trier and the Roscheider Hof , which became a point of contact for political refugees and those in need in the pre-March period.

The revolution of 1848/49 and the Valdenairian affair

Viktor Valdenaire was elected to the Prussian National Assembly. On 2/3 May he got involved in the Trier barricades together with his father against the military and got help from Konz and Saarburg. Both Valdenaires could only escape the subsequent pursuit by fleeing across the borders. When Viktor Valdenaire wanted to travel to Merzig for his mandate after his election as Berlin deputy to the election assembly for the Frankfurt parliament, he was arrested as an assassin to overthrow the legal order on May 10 (according to other sources on May 9 in Konz) and over two Locked in the Trier prison for months. The original charge of the assassination - in this case even the death penalty - was reduced to rebellion in the course of the proceedings. The aim of the campaign was to pull unpopular MPs out of the way.

When the Prussian National Assembly met on May 22, 1848, the Valdenairian affair was on the agenda before the third session . The central issue was the question of the inviolability of a legally elected MP. A lively discussion ensued on July 18, at the end of which the majority of MPs decided to suspend the investigation into Valdenaire and his detention for the duration of the session and to call him immediately to Berlin.

Karl Marx reported on this incident as editor-in-chief of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung . As a result of this incident, a law on the inviolability of MPs, the current immunity of MPs, was adopted by the Prussian National Assembly and signed by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV .

Victor Valdenaire was released from custody in the late evening of July 23rd and escorted to the Roscheider Hof by residents of the St. Matthias district . Three days later, the citizens of Trier organized a festival for Valdenaire. In his speech he emphasized that he considered it his duty to travel to Berlin, because several of his fellow sufferers were languishing in prison, he wanted to work for their liberation and fight for the principle of popular sovereignty.

Valdenaire presented himself in the Berlin Parliament on 8./9. August 1848 only shortly before and left the mandate to his deputy Josef Erasmus Graeff . In Trier he was only politically active in a local context.

Restoration time after 1849

The dire end of the enthusiastically accepted revolution robbed the Valdenaires of all hope of a change in circumstances. At the beginning of December 1856 he visited Karl Marx in London. In 1862 he tried again to return to politics, but soon resigned from the Liberal Election Committee, as its course seemed too moderate to him. Since the death of his father he tried to sell the more and more dilapidated Roscheider Hof, which he finally succeeded in 1864. He lived briefly in Saarburg and from 1862 until his death in 1881 in Trier, where he ran a factory.

literature

  • Heinz-Günther Böse: Heads of the Revolution 1848/49 in Trier and in the Trier area . In: Elisabeth Dühr; City Museum Simeonstift Trier; "The worst point in the province" . Self-published, Trier 1998, ISBN 3-930866-13-7 , p. 170-172 .
  • Bernd Blumenthal, Herrmann Kramp: The Roscheider Hof - Benedictine abbey, farmer's school, open-air museum, a contribution to the 25th anniversary of the museum . Series of publications by the Roscheider Hof open-air museum, Konz 1998, ISBN 3-9802025-9-3 .
  • Philipp Wey: Nikolaus Valdenaire (1772–1849) and Viktor Valdenaire (1812–1881). Two revolutionary representatives of the people and contemporaries of Karl Marx. In: Heimatbuch des Kreis Saarburg 13 . Saarburg 1969, p. 44-73 .
  • Heinz Monz: Valdenaire, Viktor Nikolaus. In: Heinz Monz (ed.): Trier biographical lexicon. Landesarchivverwaltung, Koblenz 2000, ISBN 3-931014-49-5 , pp. 476–477.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Later (1896) renamed Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium .
  2. ↑ "To visit Valdenaire von Trier - the unfortunate reconciler." Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels December 1, 1856. ( Marx-Engels-Werke . Volume 29, p. 90.)
personal data
SURNAME Valdenaire, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valdenaire, Viktor Nikolaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner, member of parliament, revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarburg
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1881
Place of death trier