Carl Friedrich Engelen

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Carl Friedrich Engelen

Carl Friedrich Engelen (born May 9, 1859 in Osnabrück ; † July 18, 1936 in Osnabrück) was a Roman Catholic lawyer and politician, member of the Reichstag and the Provincial Parliament.

Life and work

The son of the consistorial councilor Ferdinand Engelen († 1873) and his wife Selma, b. Warneke, after visiting the Osnabrück Carolinum (1865–1876) studied law from 1876 to 1881 in Leuven, Strasbourg, Leipzig and Göttingen. Since 1882 Engelen worked as a trainee lawyer and since 1887 as an assessor in Melle, Iburg and Bersenbrück. In 1894, when he was transferred to Einbeck, he was appointed magistrate. In 1899 Engelen moved to Osnabrück, where he was promoted to the District Court Council in 1901. He gained notoriety in the Catholic area through his office as chairman of the Osnabrück local committee for the 48th General Assembly of Catholics in Germany in the Hanseatic city. His father Ferdinand Engelen was a friend and brother-in-law of the later center leader Ludwig Windthorst , whose wife was Julie Engelen . Since he died early, Windthorst took special care of his nephew. As heir to the Oedingberge estate in the Iburg district , which made him financially independent, Engelen had been a member of the Iburg district council since 1887. Furthermore, through this possession in 1885 he was accepted into the Osnabrück knighthood. Due to his financial independence, the Hanoverian was able to afford his demonstrative dislike of the Prussians, who had conquered and annexed his homeland in 1866, which kept his legal career within narrow limits. Engelen, out of his Hanoverian conviction, also refused the request made to him to seek an ennoblement. On July 1, 1922, the lawyer was retired. After the National Socialists came to power he withdrew completely from the public and died on May 18, 1936 in Osnabrück. He was married to Maria, geb. Linnemann, from Quakenbrück .

Public offices

According to the will of leading central politicians in the region in the Reichstag constituency of Hildesheim, Windthorst's nephew was to run in the Reichstag elections in 1903 as a candidate for the Center Party . He refused, however, because it was the first time that the Center was to run for election against the Welfs , the long-standing ally of the Center Party in the province of Hanover. So far, both parties have always run together against the National Liberals and Social Democrats in the province. The alliance between the Catholics and the Guelphs in the Osnabrück region was particularly close. On January 21, 1903, Engelen was elected in the constituency of Hanover 3 (Meppen - Bentheim - Lingen) of his uncle after the death of the incumbent Carl Brandenburg in a replacement election to the Reichstag. The decisive factor was his promise not to exercise a double mandate in the Prussian House of Representatives. Engelen represented the Emsland / Grafschaft Bentheim region there until the revolution of 1918. The district council of the Iburg district, to which he had belonged since 1887, also sent him to the Hanoverian provincial parliament from 1910 to September 1919. In Osnabrück, Engelen had great influence in the Catholic-Welf electoral alliance. Before the outbreak of war, he successfully asserted himself against a strong group, especially led by clergymen, who were working to terminate the alliance with the Welfische Deutsch-Hannoversche Party (DHP). Since 1909 the lawyer was a board member of the Hanover Center Party. After the revolution of 1918 Engelen withdrew from the public center work, because although he welcomed the democracy of Weimar, as a conservative he rejected the new course of his party under Matthias Erzberger .

Individual evidence

  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. 117.
  2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 90 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)

literature

  • 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. 148.
  • Rainer Hehemann: Engelen, Karl . In: Rainer Hehemann (edit.): Biographical manual for the history of the Osnabrück region . Edited by the Osnabrück Regional Association, Bramsche 1990, p. 76.
  • Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 101.
  • Hermann Hillger (ed.): Kürschner's German Reichstag. Biographical-statistical manual 1907-1912. XII. Legislative period . Berlin and Leipzig n.d., p. 153.
  • Helmut Lensing: The elections for the Reichstag and the Prussian House of Representatives in Emsland and the Grafschaft Bentheim from 1867 to 1918 - party system and political conflict in the constituency of Ludwig Windthorst during the German Empire . Emsland / Bentheim. Contributions to the history, Volume 15. Ed. From the Emsland landscape for the district of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim, Sögel 1999.
  • Helmut Lensing: The establishment of a central center organization for the province of Hanover in 1909/10 from the point of view of the Emsland party press . In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen, Volume 109 , Osnabrück 2004, pp. 251–266.

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personal data
SURNAME Engelen, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelen, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1936
Place of death Osnabrück