Melchior Philipp Karl Baumann (born August 21, 1794 in Külsheim, Germany, August 2, 1870 in Pirmasens) was a German merchant and politician.
Melchior Philipp Karl Baumann was a son of Heinrich Josef Baumann, a court official from Mainz. In Pirmasens Melchior Baumann was one of the founders of the Ortsgruppe, the "branch committee", the German Press and Fatherland Association. In the weeks following the founding of the association in Zweibrücken, 102 citizens joined Pirmasens. The names and contributions were regularly published in Johann Georg August Wirthsblatt Deutsche Tribune and are handed over as such.
On May 29, 1832, the third day of the Hambach Festival, the members of the provisional German National Committee, which was set up at the Neustädter Schießhaus, met in Neustadt to discuss the next steps. Probably not without agreement with the Hambachers Baumann distributed to the participants black-red-golden tapes and cockades at the Pirmasens fair. The following day, a few hundred paramilitary dressed revolutionaries gathered in the city and marched through the city. However, when the Bavarian huntsman's corps, which had been alerted by the Land Commissioner, entered the city, the group broke up without a fight.
Melchior Baumann was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in July 1832 for insulting the extraordinary Court Commissioner, Prince von Wrede. On March 26, 1833, he was released from the jury's verdict in Landau, where he was accused of distributing flyers and persuasive speeches.
In 1848, Baumann belonged to the Cantonal Committee of Pirmasens of the Palatinate Republic. Edit source text
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