August Eisenlohr (politician)

Minister Eisenlohr, painted by Caspar Ritter

Friedrich Wilhelm August Eisenlohr (born February 25, 1833 in Mannheim , † March 12, 1916 in Karlsruhe ) was a German national liberal politician, Baden civil servant and interior minister of the Grand Duchy of Baden .

Life

August Eisenlohr studied in Heidelberg and Berlin law . From 1857 he was a court trainee in Baden. In 1863 he became a district judge in Gernsbach and in 1865 a district judge in Baden-Baden. From 1867 he was Ministerialrat in the Baden Ministry of the Interior. He was a member of the second Baden Chamber from 1866 to 1870 . From 1874 he was state commissioner for the districts of Karlsruhe and Baden. In 1877/78 he belonged to the German Reichstag as a member of the national liberal faction . As a member of parliament, he represented the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Baden 10 ( Karlsruhe - Bruchsal ). On April 6, 1878, his election was declared invalid. In 1883 he returned to the Ministry of the Interior as a Ministerial Counselor and Deputy President. From 1890 he was President of the Ministry of the Interior and thus head of the Ministry. Already during this time he was strongly attacked as an exponent of liberalism by the center and the SPD, especially because of the question of electoral law. In 1899 he was appointed Minister of the Interior, but gave up the office in 1900 after his positions were also opposed by the Liberals.

The University of Heidelberg awarded Eisenlohr an honorary doctorate in 1896 . The city of Mannheim made him an honorary citizen in 1907 because of his services to the incorporation of the Friesenheimer Insel and Käfertal as well as the construction of the industrial port and named a street after him after his death in 1916.

literature

Hanspeter Rings: August Eisenlohr . In: Ulrich Nieß, Michael Caroli (Ed.): The highest distinction in the city: 42 Mannheim honorary citizens in portrait . Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3926260556
Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 5. Leipzig 1906, pp. 560-561. Digitized

Web links

Commons : August Eisenlohr (politician) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

August Eisenlohr in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of August Eisenlohr . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Friedrich Wilhelm August Eisenlohr. In the personal database of the members of the Baden state parliament at the Badische Landesbibliothek

Individual evidence

^ 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. 256.

personal data
SURNAME	Eisenlohr, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German civil servant, minister and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 25, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	March 12, 1916
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[1] 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. 256.