August Lamey

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August Lamey

August Lamey (born July 27, 1816 in Karlsruhe , † January 14, 1896 in Mannheim ) was a Baden politician and lawyer. As the leading representative of the (southwest German) Liberals, he initiated a series of reforms.

origin

August Lamey's grandfather Andreas Lamey was secretary of the Electoral Palatinate Academy of Sciences in Mannheim and founder of the Mannheimer Zeitung .

His father Ernst Andreas Lamey continued the newspaper and founded two other newspapers in Mannheim and Karlsruhe.

In his second marriage, August Lamey was married to Maria Katharina, the daughter of the architect Jacob Friedrich Dyckerhoff . From this marriage came Wilhelm Lamey (1854–1910).

Life

Marie Lamey b. Dyckerhoff from Mannheim ( Louis Coblitz , 1852)

Lamey studied law in Bonn, Heidelberg and Munich. During his studies he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Bonn and the Corps Suevia Heidelberg . In 1842 August Lamey established himself as a lawyer in Mannheim. Two years later he moved to the Baden judicial service. There he was also responsible for the censorship of the Mannheim newspapers for a short time in 1846. In 1848 Lamey was elected to the second chamber of the Baden state estates for the first time , to which he belonged until 1852. A year later he left the Baden judicial service and went to Freiburg as a lawyer . There he received his doctorate and became a professor in 1856. From 1859 to 1860 Lamey belonged to the Second Chamber of Baden for the second time.

Just one year later, Anton von Stabel appointed him to his cabinet as Minister of the Interior. In 1866 he resigned from his position and moved to Mannheim. There he was involved in the city council and in 1868 became chairman of the district committee. From 1871 to 1874 he represented the Mannheim constituency in the Reichstag for the National Liberal Party . He decided not to run again and instead went to the second chamber of the Baden state estates for the third time in 1875. From 1876 until his retirement in 1892 he was president.

politics

August Lamey made a name for himself early on as the leader of the liberal opposition in Baden. After Grand Duke Friedrich I dismissed the government because the contract it had negotiated with the Catholic Church had not found a majority, he was appointed to the new reform cabinet in 1860. After a short time, he presented a law that created a clear dividing line between church and state . Then he issued an amnesty for the revolutionaries of 1848/49 . The police and administration were reformed, which included the abolition of the county government. An extensive freedom of trade and the constitutional equality of all citizens and thus equal rights for Jews were introduced.

The reorganization of the school system met resistance from the Catholic Church in 1866. However, when the request was made in the First Chamber to dismiss Lamey for abuse of office and breach of the constitution, the Second Chamber unanimously backed him. However, only a few weeks later, he voluntarily resigned. In the German conflict between Prussia and Austria, the Baden government sided with Austria. After Prussia's victory at Königgrätz , all ministers who were in favor of a Greater German solution to the question of national unity resigned .

Honors

Grave in the Mannheim main cemetery

August Lamey received numerous awards for his life's work. In 1864 he became an honorary citizen of Freiburg. He received the same appreciation two years later as a demonstrative act by Mannheim at the height of the dispute with the Catholic Church. Karlsruhe followed in 1893. Baden awarded him the title of Privy Councilor 1st Class and the Grand Cross with Collane of the Order of the Zähringer Lion . In several cities streets and squares are named after August Lamey.

His memorial in Mannheim, based on a design by Karl Friedrich Moest from 1904, was removed by the National Socialists in 1935 because of its "Jew-friendliness" and fell victim to metal donations during World War II . The base of the monument found a new use in 1980 when the Bismarck monument was re-erected .

literature

  • Ferdinand Lewald : August Lamey . In: Baden biographies . V. part. Heidelberg 1904, pp. 453–505 ( digitized version )
  • Lily Blum: Minister of State August Lamey. A politician from Baden during the time of the establishment of the Empire. Heidelberg 1934
  • Lothar Gall : Liberalism as the ruling party. The Grand Duchy of Baden between restoration and the establishment of an empire . Wiesbaden 1968
  • Lothar Gall:  Lamey, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 446 ( digitized version ).
  • Armin Danco: The Yellow Book of the Corps Suevia zu Heidelberg, 3rd edition (members 1810–1985), Heidelberg 1985, No. 273
  • Michael Caroli: August Lamey . In: Ulrich Nieß (ed.): The city's highest award. 42 Mannheim honorary citizens in portrait . Mannheim 2002, ISBN 3-926260-55-6

Web links

Commons : August Lamey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MARCHIVUM: Street names, Lameygarten. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ MARCHIVUM: street names, Lameystraße. Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Schmitt (Ed.): Monuments, fountains and free sculptures in Karlsruhe 1715–1945. Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3761702647 , p. 686 (= Publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives, Volume 7)
personal data
SURNAME Lamey, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1896
Place of death Mannheim