Wilhelm Adolph Haussner
Wilhelm Adolph Haußner (born April 7, 1819 in Plauen , † May 9, 1849 in Dresden ) was a doctor and city councilor in Pirna , revolutionary from 1848/49 and rebel in the Dresden May uprising in 1849.
Life
Haussner came from Plauen and was the son of the town judge there . His father was one of the well-known democrats in Saxony during the revolution of 1848/49 . Wilhelm Adolph Haußner studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1839 after graduating from high school . Because burschenschaftlicher operation he was reprimanded there. In 1843 he received his doctorate as Dr. med. In June 1844 he got a job in Dohna and at the beginning of 1845 he settled in Pirna as a doctor. Until his death in 1849 he was politically active in the city, in clubs and for the revolution of 1848/49.
Haußner as a newspaper editor
Since May 5, 1848, Haußner had published the progressive newspaper “Die flying ferry - a liaison sheet for the inhabitants of the Upper Elbe…” as a weekly newspaper under the motto “Truth against friend and foe”. Thus Haußner gave a gazette a fighting spirit with considerable influence throughout the territory of Amtshauptmannschaft Pirna. The newspaper initially appeared once a week, then twice, and became one of the most respected political papers in Saxony. The readership expanded far beyond Pirna's borders.
Haußner as the club's founder
In 1846 he was instrumental in founding the gymnastics club . As a representative of the determined democrats, he campaigned for the creation of a fatherland association. During the first weeks of the revolution in 1848, his intention to found a fatherland association in Pirna failed, one of those radical democratic associations in Saxony that the bookseller Robert Blum initiated in Leipzig . The predominant moderate direction in Pirna, however, formed a German Association on April 16, 1848.
In it, however, Haussner was able to assert his democratic views more and more. This was expressed in his election as a delegate to the general assembly of the German associations in Leipzig. But that did not prevent him from taking part in the meeting of the fatherland associations in Dresden. In November 1848, the political disputes in the German Association reached their climax. Haussner prevailed with his like-minded colleagues and became chairman.
Haußner also founded a craft association, which later assumed the name of the workers' association .
Foundation of the workers' association
On Monday, June 6th, 1848, a meeting of the “already formed local craft assistants' association” took place in the hall of the hotel “Schwarzer Adler”. Its purpose was “contemporary training” and its chairman was Haussner. A meeting of the “local apprentice association” was dissolved on June 29, 1848, “because all members were incapable of disposition”, ie not yet of legal age and therefore not in possession of political rights. On July 18, 1848, the city council was informed of the composition of the board of the handicraftsmen's association by letter: Chairman: Haußner; Members: the painter's assistant Schumacher, the journeyman tailors Pilling, Hauschild and Auener, the journeyman carpenter Wille, the journeyman potter Grohmann, the journeyman shoemaker Döring.
From August 1848 the name “workers' association” appeared. This was accompanied by a change in the board of directors, in which, in addition to Haußner, the following were named: the lithographer Ernst Julius Kubach, the manual worker Samuel Gottlieb Döring, the bricklayer Carl Kießling and the tobacco spinner Eduard Pankow.
In October 1848, in a report to the main committee of the Saxon workers 'associations in Leipzig, Haußner stated that the purpose of founding the workers' association was that the association had been brought into being “out of a strongly felt general need for an association, a closer union of the workers for the sake of their own Research into the main and basic causes of their current depressed relationship, answering the workers 'questions raised in this case, explaining their wishes here, finally self-help, namely the permitted self-help according to the instructions of the deposed Workers' Commission ... "The declared goal was" contemporary training ". As can be seen from the activities of the association, however, it naturally included active participation in political life.
The workers' association was exposed to bourgeois attacks from the start, against which Haussner always protested. So he turned against "charges which those associations (workers' associations) seek to suspect as rooting and seditious".
Haussner, as the intellectual stimulus of the association, was more of a radical democrat than a former socialist . He was on the side of the most socially disadvantaged.
May uprising in Dresden
In May 1849, Haussner supported the rebels in Dresden. On April 30, 1849, on behalf of the committee of the German Association of Pirna, Haussner published an appeal for "fellow citizens of town and country ...". It appeared as a wall posting in Pirna and allegedly also in Dresden. In it, Haussner called for a fight against the advance of the counterrevolution , which had dissolved the state parliament in Saxony on April 28, 1849. "Men of the people!", It says there, "Do not let the brood hatch the already hatched basilisk eggs under your eyes, but destroy them before the developing monsters gain strength to devour you and your freedom!" with his, mostly among the dispossessed (the proletarians ) to find followers. The majority of the bourgeoisie strongly disapproved of him, as a contemporary chronicle says. On May 1, the wall posting was confiscated and preliminary investigations into high treason were initiated by the public prosecutor's office against Haussner and the German Association .
After the outbreak of fighting (May 3rd), Haussner was one of the first to hurry to Dresden in the morning hours of May 4th. During the fighting he was wounded, taken prisoner, transported with other prisoners on May 9, 1849 over the Dresden Augustus Bridge, pushed over the railing and murdered by Prussian soldiers.
The high treason proceedings were only opened on November 27, 1849, against the surviving committee members of the German Association. They were acquitted after swearing that they did not know the appeal and did not sign it. Haussner would have acted completely alone. They put all the guilt on him.
Commemoration
In Pirna, a school and a street near the cemetery bears his name. There is a memorial plaque on his former home on Dohnaische Strasse, corner of Barbiergasse.
Web links
- History of Pirnas (by Hugo Jensch) ( Memento from April 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Haussner, Wilhelm Adolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor and city councilor in Pirna, revolutionary (1848/49) and rebel in the Dresden May uprising (1849) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plauen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1849 |
| Place of death | Dresden |