Joseph Martin Reichard (23 September 1803-14 May 1872) was a German politician and revolutionary. He was a lawyer

Lawyer

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 by profession and democrat by philosophy. He was elected as a deputy to the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848 and served as a member of the Palatinate revolutionary Provisional Government in 1849. He died in 1872.