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Friedrich Schüler
b. 19 Aug 1791, Bergzabern, Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
d. 26 Jun 1873, Metz, France |
| Title: |
Mitglied der deutschen Reichsregentschaft (Member of the German Reich Regency) |
| Term: |
6 Jun 1849 - 18 Jun 1849 |
| Chronology: |
6 Jun 1849, elected, session of the Nationalversammlung (National Assembly), Saal der würtembergischen Kammer der Abgeordneten, Stuttgart [1, IX, 6821-6822]
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18 Jun 1849, National Assembly and Reich Regency are prevented from further functioning and dissolved by the use of troops of the Königreich Württemberg (Kingdom of Württemberg) [1, IX, 6875-6880]
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| Biography: |
The son of a teacher; was educated as lawyer in Strasbourg and Göttingen (1806-1816); held positions in the court of appeals at Zweibrücken (1816-1832); acquired a vineyard near Metz, France (from 1824); elected to the Bavarian Kammer der Abgeordneten (Chamber of Deputies, 1831); founder of the liberal Association of the Press and Fatherland (Preß- und Vaterlandsverein), banned by the Bavarian government (1832); prosecuted by the Bavarian authorities; immigrated to France (1832); lived in Bad Niederbronn, Strasbourg, Metz and Paris; important member of the German immigrant associations in Paris (mid-1830s); chairman of the Union of the Germans (Bund der Deutschen); elected as a representative of Lauterecken, Palatinate of the Rhine (as part of Bavaria), to the Nationalversammlung (National Assembly) and served as deputy (18 May 1848 - 18 Jun 1849); belonged to the extreme left faction Donnersberg; participated in the rebellion in Rhineland-Palatinate (1849); elected to the Bavarian Kammer der Abgeordneten (Chamber of Deputies, 1849); elected a member of the German Reich Regency (6 Jun 1849); fled to France via Switzerland; sentenced to death in-absentia for revolutionary activities (1851); lived in France (from 1849). Biography source: [2][3] |
| Elections: |
| Candidate |
Votes (6 Jun 1849) |
| Friedrich Schüler |
93 |
| August Heinrich Simon |
1 |
| Moriz Mohl |
1 |
| August Heinrich Becher |
1 |
| abstentions |
9 |
| total votes cast |
105 |
| total valid votes cast/absolute majority |
105/53 |
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| Election results: [1, IX, 6821-6822]; other members of the Regency were elected in the rounds 1-2, 4-8. |
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| [1] |
Stenographischer Bericht über die Verhandlungen der deutschen constituirenden Nationalversammlung zu Frankfurt am Main, ed. by Franz Wigard (Frankfurt-am-Main: Johann David Sauerländer, 1848-1849) |
| [2] |
"Biographisches Handbuch der Abgeordneten der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung 1848/49", ed. by Heinrich Best, Wilhelm Weege (Düsseldorf: Droste, 1996) |
| [3] |
"Friedrich Schüler (1791-1873): Ein vornehmer, stolzer Republikaner", ed. by Andreas Gestrich (Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2004). |
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Image: Friedriich Schüler in 1848/1849. |
