Alexander Meyer (politician)

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Paul Albrecht Wilhelm Alexander Meyer (born February 22, 1832 in Berlin ; † June 27, 1908 in Friedenau ) was a German journalist, politician ( NLP , LV , DFP , FVg ) and free trader.

Meyer made the Abitur at the Friedrich-Werderscher Gymnasium in Berlin and then attended the Berlin University . In 1860 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. in Würzburg. However, he only worked briefly as a lawyer and then worked as a publicist . From August 1863 he was editor of the Weser newspaper and published the Prussian yearbooks.

In 1867 he was elected secretary of the Wroclaw Chamber of Commerce . He held this position until 1875. In 1871 he became General Secretary of the German Trading Conference and publisher of the German Commercial Gazette . He also wrote for the Breslauer Zeitung and for Theodor Barth's magazine Die Nation . From 1876 to 1879 he was editor-in-chief of the Schlesische Zeitung .

In 1870 he was elected to a commission that helped found the Reichsbank .

From 1877 to 1888 Meyer initially represented the national liberals, from 1886 the progress liberals for Breslau and from 1892 to 1893 for Berlin II in the Prussian House of Representatives .

He initially belonged to the National Liberal Party (NLP). After the NLP approved Bismarck's protective tariff policy , some of the NLP members founded the LV ( Liberal Association ) in 1880 ; Meyer also joined the course. After the Reichstag election in 1881 he moved into the Reichstag for the LV , and after the Reichstag election in 1884 for the DFP ( German Freedom Party ), which was created in March 1884 through the merger of LV and the German Progressive Party . He also entered the Reichstag in 1887 , 1890 and 1893 , and in 1893 for the Liberal Association (FVg).

Meyer was one of the undogmatic free traders and Manchester liberals . In order to avoid confusion with other politicians with the same family name, he was often called "Meyer-Breslau".

His saying “The beer that is not drunk has missed its job”, which he made in the Prussian state parliament in 1880, became famous.

Fonts

  • On the concept of social policy. In: Prussian year books. Volume 14, 1864 ( online at Archive.org )
  • The responsibility of officials. In: Prussian year books. Volume 15, 1865
  • The eighth economic congress. In: Prussian year books. Volume 16, 1866
  • The increase in wages. In: The present. Volume 3, 1873
  • On old-age insurance for workers , Economic Time Issues (Issue 74), Berlin 1889
  • From the good old days. Berlin pictures & memories. 1909

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foundation of the Reichsbank (p. 257) .
  2. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 270 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the various constituencies and the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , p. 898.
  3. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/100066.das-bier-das-nicht-getrunken-wird-hat-seinen-beruf-verfehlt.html

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SURNAME Meyer, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Paul Albrecht Wilhelm Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, liberal, free trader and politician (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1908
Place of death Berlin-Friedenau