Anselm Laugel

Marie Anselme Victor Henri Laugel ( Anselme, German: Anselm was the nickname) (born April 3, 1851 in Strasbourg , † July 29, 1928 in Saint-Léonard ) was an Alsatian doctor, author and politician.

Life

Anselm Laugel was the son of François Joseph Victor Laugel and his wife Marie Louise Fanny Wagatha. Both his father and his grandfather had been members of the Strasbourg city council. He married N. Hervé on January 26, 1897.

After attending the Lycée de Strasbourg and the Jesuit college in Metz , he passed the Baccalauréat in 1870 . November 1870 he was a war participant in the légions d'Alsace-Lorraine in Lyon.

The francophone Anselm Laugel left his homeland in 1871 after the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine and studied at the Jesuit college in Paris from 1871 to 1873. Then worked in the secretariat of the French Senate Chancellery . In 1891 he returned to the realm of Alsace-Lorraine , became chairman of the district agricultural council in the district of Molsheim and founding president of the Alsatian winegrowers' association. In 1896 he was elected to the district assembly of Upper Alsace . From 1890 to 1911 he was also a member of the regional committee of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine .

In 1911 he ran for the center in the constituency of Schirmeck-Saales-Rosheim for the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , but was defeated by the Social Democrat Michel Heysch . In the first ballot, 5791 votes were cast in the constituency of the 7075 eligible voters. Heysch received 2218 votes, Anselm Laugel 2505 and the liberal candidate Claude 862 votes. In the second ballot, Heysch prevailed with 3,240 votes against Laugel, who had received 2,892 votes.

Together with his friend Pierre Bucher , he was involved in the publication of the magazine La Revue Alsacienne illustrée (1898–1914). He was an expert on the arts and culture of Alsace and author of several books on the subject.

With the outbreak of the First World War , he sided with France and was regarded by the German side as a traitor. After the war he was made responsible by the French authorities for the holdings of the museums and libraries in Alsace and in this function organized the removal of German-speaking staff from these institutions.

Laugel was a member of a Commission de Triage and from 1919 to 1920 a member of the Conseil Supérieur d'Alsace et de Lorraine . Politically, he joined the Union populaire républicaine .

Awards

He was awarded a Knight of the Legion of Honor.

Works

• Formation du caractère alsacien , 1918
• La Résistance de l'Alsace-Lorraine , 1918
• La terre fidèle , 1918

literature

• Christian Baechler: Entry LAUGEL Marie Anselme Victor Henri in: Christian Baechler: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, Volume 23, p. 2235 (French)
• Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mulhouse 1911, p. 195