Wilhelm Adolph von Trützschler

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Wilhelm Adolph von Trützschler was shot in Mannheim in 1849
Stelae inscription of the so-called martyr's stone in the main cemetery in Mannheim

Wilhelm Adolph von Trützschler (born February 20, 1818 in Gotha ; † August 14, 1849 in Mannheim ) was a German politician , democrat and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Saxon State Parliament .

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family

Wilhelm Adolph came from the Vogtland family of the von Trützschler . His parents were the secret government councilor, politician and honorary citizen of Gotha Franz Adolf von Trützschler (1792–1873) and his wife Elisabeth born. from Wangenheim .

At the age of 25, on October 15, 1843, he married 19-year-old Gabriele von Mandelsloh , daughter of Friedrich Maximilian von Mandelsloh, (* 1790 in Dresden; † 1871 ibid) and Countess Mathilde von Rüdiger (* 1804 in Dresden; † 1872 ibid). The couple had two children who soon became half-orphans:

  • Maximilian Franz Adolf von Trützschler, Freiherr zum Falkenstein, on Großenbehringen , Irrsingen etc. (born August 7, 1845 in Zwickau; † NN). As a 27-year-old royal Saxon cavalry master on October 13, 1872 in Dresden, he married the 22-year-old Isidore Freiin von Uckermann-Bendeleben (born October 13, 1850 in Dresden; † NN). The couple had a daughter Karoline von Trützschler Freiin zum Falkenstein (born March 18, 1875, † October 19, 1919 in Berlin). Karoline married on September 25, 1897 in Großenbehringen Georg von der Betten auf Rittershausen (* February 20, 1871 in Ritterhof, † December 30, 1947 in Rittershausen), from whom she divorced in 1906 after a nine-year marriage.
  • Oswald von Trützschler Freiherr zum Falkenstein auf Mühlberg (* 1846; † NN), royal Saxon lieutenant. At the age of 38, he married the 30-year-old American Luise Welcott Leavitt (* 1858; † NN) from Great Barrington, Massachusetts , USA on May 29, 1888 in Dresden . Her child Luise von Trützschler Freiin zu Falkenstein was born twelve months later on May 21, 1889 in Dresden. At the age of 19, she married Otto von Boyneburgk, who was 5 years her senior on Falkenstein (born May 4, 1884, Großenhain ; † August 26, 1914, fell near Cul des Sarts, Wallonia, Belgium). He died a few days after the start of World War I on August 1, 1914 near the Franco-Belgian border during the battle or the siege of Namur .

Career

Wilhelm Adolph studied medicine in Leipzig from 1835/1836 and law in Jena , Göttingen and Leipzig from 1836–1840 . In Jena, he probably joined the fraternity society in the Burgkeller in 1836 , and in Leipzig in 1839 he founded the Corps Montania . He joined the Saxon judicial service in 1843 . His frank demeanor made him very popular during the March Revolution and in May he was elected a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. He joined the Donnersberg faction . At the Saxon Landtag , which met at the beginning of 1849, he was a representative of the 46th electoral district of the Second Chamber and was a member of the constitutional deputation.

On May 26, 1849, he entered the service of the Baden Revolutionary Government and initially served as civil commissioner in Mannheim and then as government director of the Lower Rhine District.

After the revolution was suppressed by Prussian troops, he tried to flee - allegedly taking the district treasury with him. After the counter-revolution in Mannheim, he was arrested by some Mannheim citizens and dragoons and handed over to the advancing Prussian troops. When he was betrayed and captured by a Prussian patrol, he trusted in his inviolability as a member of the German National Assembly. Still, he was tried. The charges included lese majesty, riot and high treason. On August 13, 1849, a Prussian court martial took a full five minutes to announce the already established verdict - death by shooting. The following day, August 14, 1849, the sentence was carried out by a Prussian firing squad. Hit by seven bullets, another fighter for Germany's unity was shot by Prussian soldiers in Mannheim's main cemetery . But it was not an isolated incident. Dozens of death sentences were passed by courts-martial in the Baden region and executed with a standing execution. Thousands were sentenced to long prison terms. Almost 80,000 people fled Baden. Many of them emigrated to America. Among them was Gustav Struve , one of the leaders of the revolution in Baden, who then fought on the side of the northern states in the American Civil War. A large part of the Baden soldiers were transferred to punishment companies. A war tax, billing costs and “voluntary” forced loans were levied on the population. All men over the age of 21 had to take the oath of homage to the Grand Duke in churches. The judiciary and administration were also thoroughly cleaned up. On August 18, 1849, Grand Duke Leopold finally returned to his residence in Karlsruhe, where he died three years later.

Others

Trützschler was probably a member of the Freemasons Association . He is the namesake of Trützschler-Platz in Gotha. The city of Mannheim honored him by naming Trützschlerstrasse . In Chemnitz OT Rabenstein and in Plauen in Vogtland a street is named after him. In Mannheim's main cemetery, a memorial column used as a martyr's stone commemorates those who were shot in 1849.

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  1. ↑ Father Franz Adolf von Trützschler (1792-1873)
  2. ^ Wife Gabriele von Mandelsloh (1790-1871)
  3. ↑ Son Maximilian (1845-NN)
  4. ^ Son of Oswald (1846-NN)
  5. ↑ The Siege of Namur in 1914
  6. ↑ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 132
  7. ↑ T. Tonndorf: The Saxon Members of the Frankfurt Pre- and National Assembly , Diss. Dresden 1993, p. 248ff
  8. ↑ On the Vita Wilhelm Adolph von Trützschler (1818-1849) ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ms-falkenstein.de
  9. ↑ Military actions of the counter-revolution in Germany, especially in Baden
  10. ↑ List of freedom fighters shot in 1949 ( memento of the original from May 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web1.karlsruhe.de
  11. ↑ "Wilhelm Adolf von Trützschler's membership of the Freemasons' Union can only be ascertained from an entry in the register of the Apollo Lodge in Leipzig . Thereafter Trützschler was given the mason light in 1840 ”; Roland Hoede: The Paulskirche as a symbol. Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 141
  12. ^ The martyr's stone in the Mannheim main cemetery
personal data
SURNAME Truetzschler, Wilhelm Adolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and democrat; Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1849
Place of death Mannheim