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'Nikolaus Becker' (8 October 1809 in Bonn - 28 August 1845 in Hünshoven) was a German lawyer and writer. His "poems" of 1841 were not special, unlike the one he wrote earlier.
Inspired by the Rhine crisis of 1840, caused by the French prime minister Adolphe Thiers, who as Minister of the Interior had been Musset's superior. Thiers had demanded that France should own the left bank of the Rhine (described as France's "natural boundary"), he wrote a poem called ''Rheinlied'', which contained the verse: ''"Sie sollen ihn nicht haben, den freien, deutschen Rhein ..."'' (''They shall not have him, the free, German Rhine'').
This patriotic poem brought him much praise throughout Germany. The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV send him 1000 Thaler, and King Ludwig I of Bavaria honoured him with a goblet. The "Rheinlied" was set to music over 70 times. The French answered, with Alfred de Musset: ''"Nous l'avons eu, votre Rhin allemand"'' (''We've had him, your German Rhine'') rubbing salt into the wounds Napoleon and others had caused, while Lamartine's "Peace Marseillaise" (1841) was peaceful.
★ http://www.jhelbach.de/dichtung/rheinli.htm Der Rhein in der Lyrik
Inspired by the Rhine crisis of 1840, caused by the French prime minister Adolphe Thiers, who as Minister of the Interior had been Musset's superior. Thiers had demanded that France should own the left bank of the Rhine (described as France's "natural boundary"), he wrote a poem called ''Rheinlied'', which contained the verse: ''"Sie sollen ihn nicht haben, den freien, deutschen Rhein ..."'' (''They shall not have him, the free, German Rhine'').
This patriotic poem brought him much praise throughout Germany. The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV send him 1000 Thaler, and King Ludwig I of Bavaria honoured him with a goblet. The "Rheinlied" was set to music over 70 times. The French answered, with Alfred de Musset: ''"Nous l'avons eu, votre Rhin allemand"'' (''We've had him, your German Rhine'') rubbing salt into the wounds Napoleon and others had caused, while Lamartine's "Peace Marseillaise" (1841) was peaceful.
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★ http://www.jhelbach.de/dichtung/rheinli.htm Der Rhein in der Lyrik
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