Franz Heinrich Zitz
Franz Heinrich Zitz | |
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_b_0149_4.jpg) A sketch of Zits from Die Gartenlaube from 1898 | |
| Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly | |
| In office 1848–1849 | |
| Member of the Vorparlament | |
| In office 1848–1848 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 November 1803 |
| Died | 30 April 1877 (aged 73) |
| Spouse | Kathinka Zitz-Halein |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen University of Giessen |
| Occupation | Lawyer, politician, revolutionary |
Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz (18 November 1803 in Mainz – 30 April 1877) was a Mainz attorney, a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, a Forty-eighter, and one of the primary rebel leaders of the Palatine uprising during the German revolutions of 1848–1849.
Life
On June 3, 1837, he married the writer Katharina Theresa Halein, not completely of his own free will, but under threat of suicide.[1] They lived together two years and remained married for the rest of their lives. As a member of the Frankfurt parliament, Franz played a respected role on the far left, and as the head of the militia in Mainz he was highly esteemed and trusted by the people of that town. He sported a remarkably full and unkempt beard during the 1849 uprising, and when it failed, toward the end of that year, he emigrated to the United States, settling in New York as a notary, a partner in the firm Kapp, Zitz, and Fröbel.[2] When amnesty was offered, he returned to Europe and died in Munich.
References
- ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie [General German Biography] (in German). Vol. 45. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1900. pp. 373–379.
- ↑ Carl Wittke, Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America, Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn. Press, 1952, p. 55. The firm became Zitz and Kapp after Fröbel's withdrawal. (p. 326)
- Ludwig Julius Fränkel (1900). . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 45. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 373–378.
- Carl Schurz, Reminiscences (3 volumes), New York: The McClure Company, 1907. Schurz meets Franz Zitz as a revolutionary leader in the Palatinate town of Kircheimbolander in Chapter VII of Volume One. He reports that “Mr. Zitz, a few years later, was well known in New York as a member of the law firm of Zitz & Kapp.”