Carl Jacob (politician)

Franz Carl Jacob (born June 8, 1818 in Kaiserslautern , † December 1, 1895 in Zweibrücken ) was a German author and politician .

Life

The doctor Franz Carl Jacob was born in 1818 as the fourteenth and youngest child of the economist and district administrator Johann Nicolaus Jacob . Like his father, his brother Johann Wilhelm Jacob became a member of the Bavarian state parliament . In 1845 he married Ida Louise Lichtenberger. The couple had two sons and two daughters. During his studies in 1838 he became a member of the Corps Franconia Munich .

Services

Carl Jacob was the founder of the Palatinate Protestant Association . The young doctor campaigned for an independent Palatinate regional church since the beginning of the 1840s . In the hymnal controversy , he was on the side of the Liberals and on November 14, 1858, led the founding assembly of the "Protestant Association of the Bavarian Palatinate". Even after the first successes achieved, Jacob stood up for the continued existence of the association. In its heyday, the association had over 20,000 members and existed until March 1934.

In 1865 Carl Jacob was appointed to the " Landrath der Pfalz ". Here he was immediately elected secretary. From 1873 to 1882 he was the president of this district parliament.

During a multi-year spa stay in Bad Cannstatt , Jacob began to write scientific treatises. Much better known than him, however, was his wife, who became the most successful Palatinate cookbook author under the pseudonym " Emmy Braun ".

Trivia

The politician and bank president Karl Theodor Jacob is a great-nephew of Carl Jacob.

Fonts

• Molecular attractions and connections. Cannstatt, 1878.
• The forces in nature, especially about some effects of the force of cohesion and adhesion in mixtures of substances as well as about the nature of electricity and magnetism. Wuerzburg 1883.
• The basics of science. Grünstadt 1890.

literature

• Rudolf H. Böttcher: Love never ends, Louise and Carl Jacob. Unpublished manuscript.
• Roland Paul: Dr. med. Franz Carl Jacob, initiator of the Protestant Association. In: Sheets for Palatine church history and religious folklore. 76, 2009, ISBN 3-7650-8556-1 , pp. 113-119.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KKL 1910, 172, 27.