Wilhelm Sachs (politician)

Wilhelm Sachs painted by Lambert Sachs in 1843

Wilhelm Sachs (born December 4, 1801 in Düsseldorf , † February 24, 1866 in London ) was a German politician, revolutionary and entrepreneur.

Life

Sachs, who came from a family of innkeepers in the Rhineland, had been active in the cloth and tobacco trade in Mannheim since around 1842 . In 1847 he was elected a member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly. As part of the March Revolution in 1848, he took part in the Heidelberg assembly and the pre-parliament .

From June 28, 1848 until the end of the rump parliament on June 18, 1849, Sachs represented the 16th Baden constituency (Mannheim) in the Frankfurt National Assembly . There he belonged to the radical Deutscher Hof parliamentary group and was briefly a member of the finance committee.

As part of the Reich constitution campaign , Sachs actively supported the Baden Revolution and took part in several meetings of the revolutionary state committee. In June 1849 Lorenz Brentano appointed him as foreign minister in the revolutionary provisional Baden government with dictatorial power , in which Sachs did not join. After the revolution was suppressed by Prussian troops, Sachs fled to England. In absentia he was sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason . In 1851, however, the proceedings were discontinued so that Sachs was able to move briefly from London to Mannheim again in 1862.

literature

• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , pp. 289-290.
• Peter Blastenbrei: Mannheim in der Revolution 1848/49 , (Kleine Schriften des Stadtarchiv Mannheim No. 10) 1997 [In it in detail on Wilhelm Sachs on pages 16, 37, 42, 44, 69, 76, 92, 110, 112, and 126]