August Metz
August Joseph Metz (born April 20, 1818 in Dreieichenhain ; † February 23, 1874 in Darmstadt ) was a politician of the German Progressive Party and chairman of the National Liberal Party (NLP) in Hesse.
Life
August Metz came from a Jewish medical family in Offenbach am Main. His father Carl August Metz (1794–1848) was a general practitioner in Dreieichenhain from 1818 to 1829 ; the father later converted to Catholicism . August Metz attended schools in Walldürn and Darmstadt and from 1836 studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Hessian Ludwigs-Universität Gießen . In 1840 he became a member of the newly constituted Corps Starkenburgia . After completing his studies, he settled in Darmstadt as a court lawyer.
Political work
August Metz first made a name for himself as a political speaker when the March Revolution broke out in 1848 . From 1850 to 1856 and from 1862 until his death he was a member of the Hessian Second Chamber .
In 1859 he was one of the founders of the German National Association and worked tirelessly for the same goal through his inspiring speeches at countless meetings throughout the German Confederation . He founded the German Progressive Party in Hesse, founded the Hessische Landeszeitung and the Mainzeitung as its organs, and since the elections of 1862, thanks to his convincing public relations work, has given it a lasting victory and a majority in the Chamber. Together with Friedrich Dernburg , the second important leader of the Hessian Progressive Party at the time, he fought the authoritarian and particularist regime of Prime Minister Reinhard von Dalwigk . In 1866, as President of the Finance Committee, he applied for funds for the war against Prussia to be denied.
After the progressive party split up, he and Friedrich Oetker became chairman of the National Liberal Party (NLP) in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In February 1868 he was elected to the Reichstag (North German Confederation) and the customs parliament as a member of the constituency of Bingen - Alzey .
After the establishment of the German Empire , the NLP, with Metz at the top, became the strongest political force in the 1871 Reichstag elections in the Grand Duchy of Hesse and in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau . Metz was then a member of the first German Reichstag (constituency Bingen - Alzey ).
August Metz died of a heart attack in Darmstadt in February 1874. Metz was married to Caroline Bötticher (1824–1889) since 1848. The marriage resulted in six sons.
Honors
A number of streets are named after Metz, e.g. B. the August-Metz-Weg in Darmstadt. The sculptor Benedikt von König (1842–1906) created a monument for Darmstadt in 1879 by Pelargus with the bust of the politician, which found its place in front of the Johanneskirche. Because of Metz's Jewish ancestry, it was melted down in 1940. On April 9, 2015, a bronze memorial plaque for August Metz was set into the ground on Johannesplatz.
literature
- Hans Blum : pioneer of German unity. Life and character images. Walther, Berlin 1899.
- Eckhart G. Franz : Metz, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 247 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ernest Hamburger : Jews in Public Life in Germany. Government members, civil servants and parliamentarians in the monarchical era, 1848–1918 (= series of scientific treatises of the Leo Baeck Institute. Vol. 19, ISSN 0459-097X ). Mohr, Tübingen 1968.
- Gerhard Heck: Dalwigk and the national club. Self-published by the Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1968 (at the same time: Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 1968).
- Sabine Hock : "Black-White & Brown and Related Products". The publicist feud between Karl Braun and Friedrich Stoltze in 1868. Stoltze Museum, Frankfurt am Main 2001.
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 261.
- Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 589.
Web links
- Metz, August Joseph in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of August Joseph Metz . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
- Metz, Johann August Joseph. Hessian biography. (As of June 18, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 57 , 84.
- ^ Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888, p. 555.
- ↑ We accept his legacy , in: FAZ of April 10, 2015, p. 40.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metz, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Metz, August Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NLP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dreieichenhain |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1874 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |