Carl 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]
- 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]
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Carl Herz died at Aschaffenburg on 8 May 1897.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Herz, Dr. Carl". Geschichte des Bayerischen Parlaments seit 1819. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Augsburg. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Herz, Karl". Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. 1881. p. 158. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Personenedata ... Carl Herz". Parlamentarierportal (BIOPARL). Zentrum für Historische Sozialforschung (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz), Köln. 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.