Moritz Wiggers

Moritz Wiggers ( born October 17, 1816 in Rostock, † July 30, 1894 ibid; Complete name: Carl Georg Moritz Wiggers ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Moritz Wiggers was the younger son of the theologian, university professor and rector of the University of Rostock, Gustav Friedrich Wiggers. Wiggers studied law and political science at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen. As of October 1835, he studied philosophy at the University of Rostock. He joined the Corps Vandalia Rostock ( 1836), the Corps Hanseatia Rostock (1837 ) and the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg ( 1837). After successful completion in 1843 he was able to establish himself as a lawyer and notary in his hometown.

Since his studies politically interested and engaged, he soon became one of the leading members of the Democratic press association Rostock. The German Revolution 1848/1849 brought with it that Wiggers was elected on November 3, 1848 President of the Constituent Assembly of Delegates of Mecklenburg. She was the first democratically elected parliament in the history of Mecklenburg, with the part of the country Mecklenburg -Schwerin is a modern constitutional state was for two years. Wiggers represented the electoral district of Mecklenburg -Schwerin 10

When the revolutionary Carl Schurz on the night of November 7, 1850 causing a stir action theologian Gottfried Kinkel from prison in Spandau in Berlin freed and both fled with the support of the Mecklenburg Democrats Warnemünde to England, Wiggers was among the relevant smugglers. For this he was later charged as an accomplice, but acquitted of all charges.

Wiggers, the final was thus on the blacklist of the reaction, in 1853 together with his brother Julius involved in the Rostock trial for treason. Because of these allegations Wiggers sat between 1 may 1853, and January 9, 1857 in prison Biitzow in custody. The trial ended with a conviction to three years in prison, which he served in the state prison Dreibergen. Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II pardoned him with effect from October 24, 1857; return to his profession, but was denied for life. Therefore Wiggers settled as his brother Julius Wiggers in Rostock as a writer. During this time he was also involved in the founding of the National Association for uplift of the German river and canal waterways. The German National Team took place in Wiggers a zealous staff and consultants.

In the Reichstag (North German Confederation) and - from the Reichstag elections 1871 to the 1881 Reichstag elections - in the Reichstag ( German Empire ) Wiggers represented the German Progress Party. Wiggers was elected in the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg -Schwerin 3 ( Parchim -Ludwig Lust).

Works (selection)

• [ With Julius Wiggers: ] Story of the Three Mecklenburg country monasteries Dobbertin, Malchow and Ribnitz. Rostock, 1848

• The Mecklenburg tax reform. 1861
• Two lectures on the agrarian states of Mecklenburg -Schwerin. Leipzig, 1861

• Prussia and the Zollverein. 1862
• The war of extermination against the peasants in Mecklenburg. History of the Junkerthums in Germany and to understanding his politics. Leipzig, 1864

• The financial circumstances of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg- Schwerin. 1866