Wilhelm Schubert (Mayor)
Wilhelm Schubert (born October 16, 1813 in Schuttern , † May 1, 1893 in Freiburg ) was a Baden merchant and politician. He is one of the most important republican personalities of the city of Lahr / Black Forest , located in the former Grand Duchy of Baden , in the Vormärz and during the revolution of 1848/49.
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Wilhelm Schubert was born as the son of the Schwarzach oil miller Ambrosius Schubert. He grew up in Lahr , where he attended elementary school from 1819 and education from 1823. This was followed by a commercial apprenticeship in the chicory factory of Johann Daniel Voelcker and the takeover as an employee. From 1834 he worked as an accountant in France , did his military service and found a job as a traveler for the Rauch company, which enabled him to return to his hometown Lahr. In 1836 he married the seventeen-year-old Maria Knöbel from Freiburg. In the same year he also opened a grocery store in Lahr , which his wife initially ran. Until 1849 he was run as a merchant and manufacturer of stranded shoes in Lahr. From 1860 to 1863 he was President of the Chamber of Commerce in Lahr . In 1867 he went to the commercial school in Freiburg as a teacher and was at times a sworn expert in commercial processes. From 1880 he ran a brandy shop on Münsterplatz in Freiburg.
Political career
In the run-up to the revolution of 1848/49, Wilhelm Schubert made an appearance when, on August 22, 1843, as secretary of the Lahr local committee, he made a toast in preparation for the anniversary celebration of the Baden constitution. In March 1848 he became chairman of the Lahr citizens' association and a member of the Central Committee of the Patriotic Associations in Offenburg . In April 1848 the election as elector for the Frankfurt Paulskirche assembly follows . Schubert was a member of the revolutionary Lahr municipal council from May 16, 1848 , but lost his mandate on November 16, 1848. On May 14, 1849, he achieved the resignation of Mayor Ferdinand Groß, was elected provisional Mayor Lahr on May 18, Appointed civil commissioner for District 41 on May 13th, 1849 himself and with an overwhelming majority of 660 against 20 votes for mayor. After the revolution was put down, Schubert was put out to search in 1849. Before the approach of the Prussian troops, Schubert fled to Strasbourg on June 30, 1849 . From July to October 5, 1849, he stayed in France in Schiltigheim, Alsace . From there he returned to Lahr, turned himself in to the police and was sentenced to 2 years in prison for participating in the revolution . After handing over a petition signed by 227 citizens of Lahr, Schubert was released on bail from the Mannheim district prison on October 18, 1849 . In 1859 he co-founded the Lahrer Schiller Club and gave a speech on the Schutterlindenberg on November 10 of the same year on the occasion of Friedrich Schiller's 100th birthday . In 1860 he was one of the initiators of the Masonic Lodge in Lahr. In October 1863 he represented the city of Lahr as a member of the Second Chamber of the Estates Assembly . He is also the main speaker at the commemorative event on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig on October 18, 1863 on the Schutterlindenberg.
Appreciations
In honor of Wilhelm Schubert, a Schubert bust was set up in a pavilion on the Schutterlindenberg above the city of Lahr and a memorial stone was placed directly below it with the following inscription:
- "The brave, truly liberal friend of the people, the patron of everything good, true, noble and beautiful Wilhelm Schubert, merchant in Lahr, was given this facility in honor of memory by his admirer and friend Ferd. Thiergarten. This Wilhelm Schubert facility was his On the opening day of his hometown, donors handed over property on June 17, 1906. Dr. Altfelix Lord Mayor " .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schubert, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and mayor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shaking |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1893 |
| Place of death | Freiburg |