Carl Herz
Carl Herz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 December 1831 |
| Died | 8 May 1897 (aged 65) |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | lawyer |
Carl Herz (21 December 1831 – 8 May 1897, Aschaffenburg[1]) was a German lawyer, and, between 1871 and 1883, Member of Parliament (Reichstagsabgeordneter).[1][2]
Life
[edit]The lawyer
[edit]Carl Herz was born into a catholic family in Würzburg, where he attended school locally.[3] He began his university studies in 1851, studying Jurisprudence at Würzburg and then at Heidelberg.[2] This was followed by a period of educational tours ("Bildungsreisen") abroad, which took in France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, North Germany and Denmark.[1] He obtained a job with the district court in Nuremberg in 1868.[2] After this, in 1871, he became a "supply prosecutor", substituting for any absences of permanent officers, in Aschaffenburg and Munich. Later in the same year he obtained a permanent post as a public prosecutor in Munich.[3]
Between 1883 and 1897 Carl Herz served as president of the district court ("Landgerichtspräsident") in Aschaffenburg.[1]
The politician
[edit]Bavaria
[edit]Late in 1869, ahead of the 1870 session, he was elected to the lower house of the Bavarian parliament, sitting as a member of the recently founded Bavarian Progressive Party ("Bayerische Fortschrittspartei"),[4] and representing the Weißenburg (Middle Franconia) electoral district.[1] Following the upheavals that cleared the way for German unification the assembly mutated into a regional parliament (Landtag). Herz remained a member till 1887, although in 1881 the electoral district he represented changed, when he became the member for Würzburg.[1]
Within the chamber he served on various parliamentary commissions. He was a long-time chairman (then deputy chairman) of the petitions commission.
Germany
[edit]From March 1871 Herz was able to combine his Bavarian parliamentary duties in Munich with membership of the newly established National Parliament ("Reichstag") in Berlin, again as a member of the Progressive Party ("Deutsche Fortschrittspartei" / DFP). Here again, he sat on several parliamentary commissions, including the petitions commission.[3]
Between 1871 and 1883, when he resigned his mandate in the national parliament for the last time, he represented an unusually disparate succession of electoral districts:[3]
- 1871-1874 Middle Franconia 4 (Eichstätt)[3]
- 1874-1877 Berlin 3[5]
- 1877-1878 Middle Franconia 3 (Ansbach-Schwabach).[3] He resigned his seat in July 1878.
- 1881-1883 Upper Franconia 3 (Forchheim)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Herz, Dr. Carl". Geschichte des Bayerischen Parlaments seit 1819. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Augsburg. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ a b c "Herz, Karl". Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. 1881. p. 158. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Personenedata ... Carl Herz". Parlamentarierportal (BIOPARL). Zentrum für Historische Sozialforschung (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz), Köln. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ "Herz, Carl". Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. February 1874. pp. 192–193. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ Michael B. Gross (2004). The War Against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-century Germany. University of Michigan Press. p. 276. ISBN 0-472-11383-6.
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- 1831 births
- 1897 deaths
- Politicians from Würzburg
- People from the Kingdom of Bavaria
- German Roman Catholics
- German Progress Party politicians
- Members of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies
- Members of the 1st Reichstag of the German Empire
- Members of the 2nd Reichstag of the German Empire
- Members of the 3rd Reichstag of the German Empire
- Members of the 5th Reichstag of the German Empire
- 19th-century German lawyers