Wilhelm Hoffbauer
Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Hoffbauer (born September 18, 1812 in Copenhagen , † July 27, 1892 in Dubuque (Iowa) ) was a German doctor and democratic politician in the revolution of 1848/49 . After the revolution of 1848/49 he fled to the USA as one of the Forty-Eighters .
Life
His father was a naval doctor and surgeon. He too studied medicine in Würzburg , Kiel and Berlin between 1831 and 1832 and from 1837 to 1841 . During his studies in 1831 he became a member of the Germania fraternity of Würzburg / Amicitia . Because of his activity as a fraternity, he was charged after a criminal case in 1833 and held in custody for five years. He was therefore only able to obtain a Dr. doctorate med. He then practiced as a general practitioner in Nordhausen . He also worked as editor of the "Berliner Medizinische Central-Zeitung."
Between May 18, 1848 and June 18, 1849 Hoffbauer was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . He represented the constituency of Nordhausen. In parliament he belonged to the radical democratic faction Donnersberg . He was also a member of the Central March Association . He voted against the election of Friedrich Wilhelm IV. As Emperor of the Germans.
After the revolution, criminal proceedings against him for riot and high treason took place from 1849 to 1851. At first he was in custody in Berlin, but was able to escape and emigrated to the USA via Switzerland. In 1851 he was in absentia to five years imprisonment convicted.
In the United States he worked as a doctor in St. Louis from 1850 to 1874 . He then practiced from 1874 to 1879 in Dubuque and from 1879 to 1888 in Guttenberg, Iowa , before moving back to Dubuque.
He first joined the Republican Party and in 1860 took part in the Conference of German Republicans in Chicago. He was a member of the Democratic Party in the 1870s before being a Republican again in 1881.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 361-362.
Web links
- Database of the members of the Prussian National Assembly, BIORAB-Frankfurt (the exact data set must be determined using the search function)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffbauer, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoffbauer, Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American doctor and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1892 |
| Place of death | Dubuque, Iowa |