Theodor Olshausen
Theodor Olshausen ( born June 16, 1802 in Gluckstadt, † March 31, 1869 in Hamburg ) was a Schleswig -Holstein politician and publicist.
Life
Olshausen was a son of Detlev Olshausen. He attended grammar school in Gluckstadt and then high school in Eutin. He graduated from the winter semester 1820/21 law in Kiel and in 1820 a member of the Old Kiel fraternity. Starting in the winter semester 1821/22 he continued his studies at the University of Jena, where he became in 1821 a member of the fraternity Jenaische. He was there also a member of the youth covenant and therefore came in 1823 after his return to the University of Kiel in the police investigation of the youth federation. Arrest warrant, he fled via Amsterdam to Paris. In the years 1825-1827 he lived as a tutor under a false name in Basel. In 1827 he returned to Paris. Through mediation by his fraternity brother Uwe Jens Lornsen he could return to Kiel in 1828 and turned the Academic Court. In April 1829 his absolution request was granted and he could finish his law studies with the state examination in Gluckstadt in autumn 1829. 1830 to 1839 he was Advocat in Gluckstadt, 1839-1843 Court clerk at the local Lower Court.
He was an important publisher of the city of Kiel University and editor of the correspondence sheet, the largest newspaper in the former Kiel. He campaigned for the construction of the railway line Altona- Kiel, whose Board he served from 1844 to 1848. His participation in illegal public meetings in 1846 led to his arrest on September 1, 1846. The arrest of Olshausen on Fenstung Rendsburg until mid- October 1846 contributed to its popularity among the people at.
In 1847 he was elected for the city of Kiel in the Holstein estates assembly. In the March Revolution, he took part at the United States General of Schleswig and Holstein on 18 March 1848. He was sent by this as one of five representatives to Copenhagen to bring King Frederick VII of the demands of the Assembly. After this mission failed, the Provisional Government of the in part of the German Confederation professing Schleswig-Holstein was formed on March 23 in Kiel. After his return from Copenhagen on 28 March Theodor Olshausen joined the provisional government and represented the radical democratic wing of the revolutionaries there.
In protest against the Treaty of Malmö stated Olshausen on August 16, his resignation from the government. The resignation was accepted by the state Assembly on 19 August. Theodor Olshausen himself traveled to Frankfurt by the Frankfurt National Assembly against the ratification of the treaty to become what he did not succeed.
On September 11, 1848, he was elected in a by-election in the constituency Itzehoe in the state assembly, so where he was spokesman of the Left, the radical democrats. He was editor of the " Schleswig -Holstein newspaper " and later the " North German Freie Presse ". After the dissolution of the State Assembly on January 11, 1851, he first went to Hamburg and then into political exile in the United States ( 1856-1860 ) according to Davenport. He was editor and co-owner of the newspaper The Democrat, ( 1860-65 ), editor of the Western Mail in St. Louis, one of the so-called Forty- Eighters conveyor of journalist Joseph Pulitzer. He was also a close associate Frederik Tillmanns.
In 1865, he moved to Zurich and 1868 in Hamburg.
According to him the Olshausenstraße is named in Kiel.