Carl August Snow Goose
Carl August Schneegans (born March 9, 1835 in Strasbourg , † March 2, 1898 in Genoa ) was initially a French liberal journalist and politician. After the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine , he was one of the leaders of the Alsace-Lorraine autonomists in the Reichstag and later entered the German civil service.
Life
He attended high school in Strasbourg and then the Académie de Strasbourg, Faculté des Lettres. Later he also studied in Paris .
In 1857 he traveled to the Danube Principalities as secretary of the international commission for the regulation of the mouths of the Danube. He returned to France via Constantinople , Smyrna , Athens and Italy . He then worked for six years as a teacher of ancient languages in Paris. He taught in various private institutions. He also wrote for the Le Temps newspaper . From 1863 he was editor of the Courier du Bas Rhin in Strasbourg. In 1870 he was in Switzerland and founded the Helvetia newspaper. During the Franco-Prussian War he was a member of the municipal commission during the siege of Strasbourg and finally adjunct (councilor) of the mayor (mayor).
In 1871 he was elected deputy in Bordeaux meeting participants are National Assembly elected.
Schneegans went to Lyon in 1871 , where he took over the editing of the liberal Journal du Lyon.
Due to resistance from the Catholic camp, he had to give up this position in 1873. He returned to Alsace and headed the Alsatian Journal. Since the German occupation, Schneegans had pleaded for autonomy in the region and is now continuing this. From 1877 he belonged to the senior consistory of the Churches AB of Alsace and Lorraine .
Also since 1877, Schneegans was a member of the German Reichstag as a member of the Alsace-Lorraine electoral district 11 (Zabern). There he was the leader of the Alsace-Lorraine autonomists. He was instrumental in the implementation of a motion that provided for a new constitution and a separate government for the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine. He was a member of parliament until 1879, when he resigned his mandate on October 5, 1879 because of his appointment to the Ministerial Council.
He entered the new government for Alsace-Lorraine as Imperial Ministerial Counselor in the Department of the Interior. In 1880 he became German consul in Messina and in 1888 consul general in Genoa .
In addition to his journalistic activities, Schneegans has also published several independent writings. His son, the philologist Heinrich Schneegans , published his father's memoirs in 1902.
Fonts (selection)
- Contes , Strasbourg, 1868
- Quarant jours de bombardment , Neuchatel, 1871
- La guerre en Alsace , Strasbourg, 1871
- From Alsace . Leipzig, 1875
- On the higher education system in Alsace-Lorraine , 1877
- From far lands . Short stories Breslau, 1886
- Sicily. Images from nature, history and life . Leipzig, 1887
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. 302.
literature
- Martin Kröger: Snow goose, Karl August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 281 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon . Volume 17. Leipzig 1909, p. 920. Digitized
Web links
- Carl August Schneegans in the database of members of the Reichstag
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Snow Goose, Carl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-German journalist and politician, Member of the National Assembly (France), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1898 |
| Place of death | Genoa |