Hans Blum

Johann Georg Max Hans Blum ( born June 8, 1841 in Leipzig, † February 1, 1910 in Rheinfelden ) was a German lawyer and writer. He was the son of assassinated on November 9, 1848 in Brigittenau in Vienna Robert Blum. He was also a National Liberal Reichstag deputy and cigar producer. His literary activity extends to the history of the 19th century.

Life

Blum attended the public school in Leipzig and from 1849 to 1856 an educational institution in Wabern. By 1860 he was in a high school in Bern, before he studied law and Kameralwissenschaften in Leipzig and Berlin. In 1864 he was clerk in Leipzig and in 1865 he received his doctorate. Subsequently he was a lawyer and worked from 1879 to 1895 Chairman of the Board of a life insurance policy.

Blum was national liberal member of the North German Reichstag and writing on the political development of the German Reich. He was the son of Robert Blum, about whom he wrote a strongly subjectively colored biography. These in turn became part of the Social Democrats criticized, inter alia, by Wilhelm Liebknecht in his own biography of Robert Blum. Blum has misunderstood the views of his father after Liebknecht view. So he tries the father in a basic first biography to make a precursor and partisan Bismarck, which he had not been sure. Wilhelm Liebknecht speaks of a biographical assassination and Robert Blum sees as a champion of social democracy, which is likely closer to the truth. However Liebknecht exaggerates also certainly the fact when he writes that in the book of the son that was only of value, which he had not written. Hans Blum also published on the history of the German Empire at the time of Bismarck.

Especially his support for capital punishment has been noted by the Social Democratic deputies with indignation. August Bebel wrote of him as follows: The only Saxon deputies, who advocated the death penalty, was Dr. Hans Blum, the son of assassinated in autumn 1848 in the Brigittenau in Vienna Robert Blum. When Blum gave his yes to the death penalty, we responded to the extreme left with a hefty Ugh! Hans Blum was one of the dirtiest and most perfidious enemies of social democracy; to fight us, him, anything was acceptable. Of course, he was an enthusiastic admirer of Bismarck, and that he probably wanted to. But he could not save him before shameful doom. Blum was revoked due to dishonest acts the legal profession. He went then to Switzerland, he woselbst a cigar factory operation. He died in 1910 as a wealthy man. Blum lived from 1898 in Rheinfelden. Blum was like his father, a member of the fraternity Leipzig Germania.

Works

• Robert Blum. A Time & Character Picture for the German people. Leipzig 1878.
• From our days. 2 volumes, Magdeburg, Faber, 1876.
• The German Revolution of 1848-49. Florence and Leipzig in 1898.
• Personal memories of Prince Bismarck. Munich 1900.
• The German Empire at the time of Bismarck. Political history of 1871-1890. Leipzig, 1893