Max Schneckenburger

Max snail burgers, actually Maximilian Schnekenburger ( born February 17, 1819 in Talheim near Tuttlingen, † May 3, 1849 in Burgdorf near Bern ) was the poet of the patriotic hymn Die Wacht am Rhein.

Life

Max screw Burger was born the son of a merchant in Talheim near Tuttlingen in Württemberg. His older brother, the Protestant theologian Matthias worm burger should be in 1834 professor at the newly founded University of Bern. In Tuttlingen and Herrenberg Max Worm Burger attended Latin schools.

After his confirmation he joined as an apprentice in a shop in Bern and met on a business trip in 1838 France and Britain know. After his return, he moved in 1841 to Burgdorf. Here he established an iron foundry and married the daughter of a pastor Württemberg. However, he longed to return to his homeland. 1849, at the age of only 30 years, he passed away.

The Watch on the Rhine

The poem The Watch on the Rhine River, by Karl Wilhelm became the German national anthem in the Franco-German War of 1870/1871 in the setting he had in 1840 sealed when France were represented the left bank of the Rhine threatened and revisionist in the French press views.

After the war of 1870/ 71 was, like the composer, also the bereaved relatives of the poet ( his widow and two sons ) awarded by the Chancellor Office a yearly pension of 3,000 marks. From his estate published in 1870 by Verlag Metzler in Stuttgart German songs.

Max Burger worm was transferred on 18 July 1886 in his birthplace Talheim and buried there.

Quote

From a political essay snails Burgers of 1840:

The first new regulation in Europe the Schuhflickerorganisation the congress of Vienna must be replaced by the only sensible and henceforth only permissible division by national foundations. And such a division is reserved for Germany after all his and reproduce after alienated provinces, where Arndt far as the German tongue is heard as the right scheme for the establishment of a new Germany will be accepted.