Anton von Wolszlegier

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Anton Johannes Nepomucenus von Wolszlegier (born March 14, 1843 in Schönfeld , † January 5, 1922 in Konitz ) was a Catholic clergyman and a member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Wolszlegier attended the Königliche Gymnasium zu Konitz until 1873. Afterwards he studied philosophy, philology and theology at the universities of Breslau , Innsbruck , Würzburg and Munich . He obtained his doctorate in theology at the University of Würzburg in 1879 and was ordained a priest in the same year by Bishop von Stein in Würzburg . Afterwards he worked first at the episcopal chancellery in Pelplin , then parish administrator in Czersk and from 1884 director of the priest-emeritus institution in Jacobsdorf . In 1892 he became a pastor in Gilgenburg . He was very active in the field of cooperatives and the development of agricultural farmers' associations.

In 1893, the local electoral association of Poles in the Reichstag constituency of Koenigsberg District 9 made the German Conservative Party an offer of an electoral alliance with a common candidate against the Center Party, which dominated the constituency . However, this was rejected by the Conservatives. In the first ballot, Wolszlegier received 32.5 % of the votes as the Polish candidate and Justus Rarkowski's candidate received 47.4% of the votes. The conservative candidate ended up being knocked out. In the then necessary runoff election, Wolszlegier was supported by the National Liberals and the German Conservatives, as well as "all Protestant pastors in the area" and "the entire Protestant bureaucracy" against the candidate for the center and won the constituency with 54.9% of the votes. Wolszlegier had previously made election commitments to the parties that supported him. From 1893 to 1898 he was a member of the German Reichstag and a member of the Polish parliamentary group . Between 1896 and 1898 he was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 30-33.
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 6.
  3. ^ 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. 425 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
personal data
SURNAME Wolszlegier, Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolszlegier, Anton Johannes Nepomucenus von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-German clergyman and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönfeld
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1922
Place of death Konitz