Carl Herz

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the American-Canadian mathematician, see Carl S. Herz.

Carl Herz (21 December 1831 - 8 May 1897) was a German lawyer, and, between 1871 and 1883, Member of Parliament (Reichstagsabgeordneter).[1][2]

Life[]

The lawyer[]

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[]

Bavaria[]

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[]

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]

†[]

Carl Herz died at Aschaffenburg on 8 May 1897.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: 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.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Herz, Karl". Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. 1881. p. 158. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  3. ^ Jump up to: 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.
  4. ^ "Herz, Carl". Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. February 1874. pp. 192–193. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  5. ^ 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.
Retrieved from ""