Wilhelm Levysohn

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Memorial plaque for Levysohn in Zielona Góra

Friedrich Wilhelm Levysohn (born May 26, 1815 in Glogau , † May 25, 1871 in Grünberg ) was a German bookseller, member of the National Assembly and politician.

Life

A native of a Jewish merchant family Levysohn studied from 1835 to 1838 legal and cameralistics in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1838 in Jena to the Dr. phil. He then did his military service in Schweidnitz as a one-year volunteer before completing an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Grünberg.

In 1839 he started his own business as a book, art and music dealer in Grünberg. In 1840 he took part in a printing company with a newspaper publisher, which he took over completely in 1842. Subsequently, he was the editor of various magazines and newspapers, including the Grünberger Wochenblatt , the magazine Der Hausfreund , the Kritische Blätter and von Levysohn's drawing list of all domestic and foreign government papers, railway shares, pension letters, lottery bonds, etc. He also wrote, also under the pseudonym Weleu , political writings.

Since 1836 he was a member of the literary association Tunnel über der Spree , in 1841 he became a member of the German Booksellers Association .

With the outbreak of the March Revolution , Levysohn became involved in the democratic movement. In April 1848 he became the head of the Liberal Society in Grünberg and a member of the Rustical Society . In the same month he had to answer in court for distributing a diatribe against Friedrich Wilhelm IV . This resulted in a prison sentence of one year and a fine in August that year.

In September 1848, however, he was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly as the successor to Carl Rödenbeck as a member of the 12th Silesian electoral district (Grünberg - Freistadt) . The National Assembly, of which he had been a member since October 3, lifted his immunity and authorized the Prussian authorities to continue investigations. In the second instance, the sentence was reduced to nine months in prison.

He was a member of the National Assembly until the end of the rump parliament on June 18, 1849. He was a member of the left parliamentary group Deutscher Hof and the Central March Association .

Levysohn then served his prison sentence in Grünberg, but at the same time a high treason trial was brought against him because of his participation in the rump parliament. However, this ended in an acquittal. After his release from prison, Levysohn resumed his work in Grünberg. His son was the well-known journalist Arthur Levysohn .

Works

  • Weleu: The limping devil in the Paulskirche , Grünberg 1849 ( digitized version )
  • Correspondence between Wilhelm and Philippine Levysohn in 1848. Printed for the family . Grünberg, Levysohn 1906

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