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Apr 05, 1814 Died on 18 Sep 1848 (aged 34)
German politician
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About Felix Lichnowsky
- Felix (von) Lichnowsky, fully Felix Maria Vincenz Andreas Fürst von Lichnowsky, Graf von Werdenberg (Spanish: Félix Lichnowsky; 5 April 1814 – 19 September 1848) was a son of the historian Eduard Lichnowsky who had written a history of the Habsburg family. Lichnowsky was born in Vienna.
- He entered the Prussian army in 1834, but left it in 1838 to enter the service of the Spanish pretender Don Carlos, where he received the rank of brigadier general.
- He fought a duel with the Spanish General Montenegro and was severely wounded, but recovered.
- In 1847, he was elected by Ratibor to Prussia's United Diet, and was elected to the national parliament in 1848 where he took his seat on the right.
- Here he put to use his substantial oratorical skills, though frequently using them to dazzle rather than enlighten, and his demeaning characterizations of the left earned him a poor reputation in those quarters.
- When the uprising broke out on 18 September in consequence of the parliament's decision regarding the truce of Malmö (in the debate for which Lichnowsky had spoken in very conciliatory terms), disdaining all warnings, he rode out with General von Auerswald to meet the troops arriving from Württemberg.
- A mob recognized them on the Bornheimer Highway and gave chase to the defenseless men.
- They fled, but accidentally went down a dead-end path at the end of which they dismounted and hid in a gardener's hut.
- The mob found them in the hut, shot von Auerswald to death and beat up Lichnowsky who died the next day in Baron Bethmann's villa in Frankfurt.
