August Heinrich Simon

Third child of a Breslau salesman; studied law in Breslau and Berlin (1824-1827); imprisoned in a fortress at Glogau for killing in a duel (1829-1830), pardoned (1830); served at the high law court in Breslau (1830-1834); judge in the courts of Berlin, Magdeburg, Greifswald, Frankfurt an der Oder, and Breslau (1834-1840, 1841-1844); worked in the Prussian ministry of cults (1840-1841); legal advisor at the Breslau law court (1844-1845); published Das Preußische Staatsrecht (1844); scientific and political publicist in Breslau (1845-1849); wrote for monthly Der Staatsbürger (1848); member of the Vorparlament (1848) and its standing committee (Fünfzigerausschuß); elected to the Prussian Nationalversammlung (National Assembly, 1848) and Second Chamber of the Landtag (1849); elected as a representative of Magdeburg, Province of Saxony (as part of Royal Prussian States), to the Nationalversammlung (National Assembly) and served as deputy (18 May 1848 - 18 Jun 1849); joined the Deutscher Hof faction (later joined the Württemberger Hof); founded the Westendhall faction; elected a member of the German Reich Regency (6 Jun 1849); fled to Switzerland (Jul 1849); sentenced to life imprisonment in-absentia for revolutionary activities (1851); worked as publicist in Zürich (1851-1857) and Wipkingen (from 1857); earned doctor's degree in law (Zürich, 1851); owned (from 1853) slate and cooper mines in Switzerland; drowned while swimming in Lake Wallensee, near Murg, Switzerland. Biography source: [2]