Carl Brandenburg

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Carl Brandenburg (born May 13, 1834 in Osnabrück , † October 29, 1902 in Wolbeck near Münster ) was a lawyer, politician, member of the Reichstag and the Prussian House of Representatives .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1852, the son of a lawyer studied law in Heidelberg and Göttingen from 1852 to 1856 at the Carolinum Gymnasium (Osnabrück) and then joined the Hanoverian judicial service as an auditor in July 1856. Brandenburg then worked in Stolzenau, Osnabrück and Hanover. In December 1860 he was appointed court assessor . In this position he found employment in Celle , Osterode am Harz and Verden (Aller) . On March 25, 1863, Brandenburg was promoted to district court assessor and transferred to the district court of Quakenbrück on November 12, 1863 , where he was appointed district judge in December 1868, in December 1875 as chief magistrate and on October 4, 1879 as district judge. In September 1886, Brandenburg was transferred to the district court of Bersenbrück, which is adjacent to Quakenbrück . Brandenburg died on October 29, 1902 in Wolbeck near Münster , where he was seeking relief from an illness. He is the grandfather of the Catholic Bishop of Sweden (1978-1998), Hubertus Brandenburg . Brandenburg was buried in the family grave on the Hasefriedhof in Osnabrück .

Public offices

Brandenburg was a former employee of the center guide Ludwig Windthorst , who promoted him early on as a promising lawyer, compatriot and relative of a family he was friends with. Brandenburg became involved in the Center Party and ran for it in 1879 for the Prussian House of Representatives in the constituency of Bersenbrück-Quakenbrück. According to the Catholic press, official help was given to his national liberal opponent. He lost to the pro-government National Liberal, who only got a majority of two votes. In 1882 Brandenburg, again supported by the anti-Prussian Guelphs , lost the election again, only now in the third ballot. In 1883, however, his application for the Prussian House of Representatives in the Münsterland constituency of Steinfurt-Ahaus was successful. In 1886 he belonged to a delegation that with Pope Leo XIII. negotiated the settlement of the Kulturkampf . In 1891, Brandenburg also succeeded the late Ludwig Windthorst as a representative of the famous constituency “Meppen” through a by-election in the Reichstag, to which he belonged until his death. Brandenburg was not only a frequent parliamentary speaker, but was best known as a keen worker in numerous committees and thus advanced to become a leading member of the central parliamentary group in the Reichstag. The lawyer remained in both parliaments until the end of his life. As an energetic opponent of German armaments and a sympathizer of the Guelphs, he was often attacked by “national” forces in the constituency. His successor as a member of the Reichstag was Windthorst's nephew, Carl Friedrich Engelen .

literature

  • Heiko Bockstiegel: Brandenburg, Carl. In: Rainer Hehemann (edit.): Biographical manual on the history of the Osnabrück region (=  series of publications on the Osnabrück cultural region of the Osnabrück Regional Association, Vol. 3). Published by the Landschaftsverband Osnabrück eV Rasch, Bramsche 1990, ISBN 3-922469-49-3 , p. 40.
  • Bernd Haunfelder : Member of the Reichstag of the German Center Party 1871–1933. Biographical handbook and historical photographs (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 4). Droste, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-7700-5223-4 , p. 135.
  • Helmut Lensing: The elections to the Reichstag and the Prussian House of Representatives in Emsland and in the Grafschaft Bentheim 1867 to 1918. Party system and political disputes in the constituency of Ludwig Windthorst during the Empire (= Emsland / Bentheim. Contributions to history. Vol. 15). Verlag der Emsländischen Landschaft for the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim, Sögel 1999, ISBN 3-925034-30-7 , (also: Münster (Westphalia), University, dissertation, 1997).
  • Bernhard Mann : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867–1918 (= handbook on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 .
  • Max Schwarz : MdR. Biographical handbook of the Reichstag. Publishing house for literature and current affairs, Hanover 1965.
  • Christoph Weber : Leo XIII. and the German Center Party at Easter 1886. A report on the intervention of four Rhenish-Westphalian state parliament members with the Pope before the so-called 1st Peace Law was passed. In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine in particular of the old Archdiocese of Cologne. Issue 176, 1974, ISSN  0341-289X , pp. 154-171.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Mann: Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. 1988, p. 80.
  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. Revised. Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 117.

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personal data
SURNAME Brandenburg, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and lawyer, Member of the Prussian House of Representatives, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1902
Place of death Wolbeck near Munster