Friedrich Münch
Friedrich Münch ( born June 25, 1799 in Nieder- Gemünden ad ohms, † December 14, 1881 in Augusta, Missouri ) was a German -American pastor, winemakers, politician and writer.
Life
Munch grew up in his native village, where he was initially taught only by his father. In 1814 he came to the high school in Darmstadt. From 1816 to 1819 he studied theology at the University of Giessen. In Giessen, he was in 1816 a member of the German Federal casting and Christian- Teutonic fraternity / mirror honor fraternity. Here he met the brothers Follen ( Adolf Ludwig Follen, Charles Follen and Paul Follen ) know, the founders of Giessen blacks. With Paul Follen, who then in 1825 his sister Maria married, he formed a lifelong friendship.
In 1833 he founded with his brother Paul Follen the Giessen Emigration Society to build a German -populated state as a model for a future German republic in the United States. They managed to bring 500 -be emigrants to America in 1834. Münch with 250 emigrants ( including some families from low Gemunden, many of his relatives ) aground first on the Weser island Harriersand. Then you landed the Medora on July 24, 1834 in Baltimore.
The utopia of their own state had to be abandoned soon.
Münch, Follen and related families settled near the confluence of the Missouri River and Mississippi River, founded by Baron von Bock 1832 German settlement Dutzow in Warren County (Missouri ) as a farmer down. Soon even came to Frederick's brother George, who built his farm nearby. Munch moved to Augusta in 1859 (Missouri ), where he and his brother Georg Münch (July 5, 1801 - April 26, 1879 ) which still exists today Winery Mount Pleasant Winery (38 ° 34 ' 15 " N, 90 ° 53 ' 9 " W38.570894444444 - 90.885925 ) built.
Munch took part in political life. He was co-founder of the Republican Party and was a delegate to the Senate from Missouri. Together with Friedrich Hecker, the Baden revolutionaries of 1848/ 9, which was also emigrated to the U.S., he strongly opposed slavery and its influence, it is thanks to them that Missouri did not join the South. One of his sons was among the first German -born volunteers who followed Lincoln's call to arms. He fell on 10 August 1861 in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, under the command of Franz Sigel, the Minister of War of the Baden revolutionaries 1848/9 had been.
He worked as a writer for German and American newspapers. His works he published under the pseudonym of Far West. His biography was first published in 1875 in the German monthly magazine " The German pioneer".
Munch's descendants have come in the wake of St. Louis to prosperity and great prestige. One of his daughters, Emilie, married a son of Paul Follen, Dr. William Follenius ( 1829-1902 ).
Works
- A Treatise on religion and Christianity, Orthodoxy and Rationalism.
- American Grape Culture, 1859
- The state of Missouri, described with special reference to teutsche Immigration, 1859
- School for American grape culture. Letter but thorough and practical guide to the laying out of vineyards, the treatment of vines, and the production of wine and North America, St. Louis 1865
- American wine school, St. Louis 1877
- Spiritual teaching for the zoom traveling youth for the use of teachers Institutions of Higher Learning: a book for teachers and students and all friends of free thought, St. Louis, 1872
- Friedrich Münch ( eds.): Memories of Germany's most turbid time, shown in the life images of Charles Follen, Paul Follen and Friedrich Münch, St. Louis ( Missouri) and Neustadt ad Haardt 1873.
- Friedrich Münch: Collected Writings, 1902, St. Louis