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Charles Grad (born December 8, 1842 in Turckheim ( Alsace ), † July 3, 1890 in Wintzenheim -Logelbach) was an Alsatian politician.

Life

Charles Grad attended high school in Colmar , then the École des Mines de Paris , made extensive trips from 1870 to 1872 in Algeria and the other Mediterranean countries as well as in Central Europe for the purpose of scientific and economic studies. From 1861 he was the private secretary of the manager of the textile factory Établissements Herzog , a large cotton mill in Logelbach. After Alsace became German as a result of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, he moved to neighboring Belfort and initially became a professor at the Faculté des Sciences at the University of Nancy .

In 1873 he went back to Herzog and in 1876 became a member of the board of directors. In 1877 he was elected a member of the Reichstag in Colmar and joined the Alsatian protesters; In 1879 he worked with great zeal for the protective tariff and also knew how to enforce an increase in the protective tariff for cotton yarn in the interests of the industry he represented. Grad belonged to the Reichstag until his death in 1890.

In addition to numerous treatises on geology in the negotiations of the Académie des sciences in Paris, on economics in the Économiste français , on finances and administration of Alsace in Alsatian journals, he published numerous works on the geography of Alsace.

Works (selection)

  • L'Australie intérieure: explorations et voyages à travers le continent australien de 1860 à 1862 . Arthus-Bertrand, Challamel, Paris 1864.
  • Le foyer alsacien. Legends et traditions populaires. - Un casque de fer . Strasbourg 1864.
  • Esquisse physique des iles Spitzbergen et du pôle arctique . Challamel, Paris 1866.
  • Essai sur l'hydrologie du bassin de l'Ill . Bader L. L, Mulhouse 1867.
  • Essais sur le climat de l'Alsace et des Vosges . E. Perrin, Mulhouse 1870.
  • Report on the recherches de M. Gérard on the faune historique des mammifères sauvages de l'Alsace. Présenté à la Société d'Histoire naturelle de Colmar . Decker, Colmar 1872.
  • L'Alsace, sa situation et ses resources au moment de l'annexion . C. Delagrave, Paris 1872.
  • Description of the formations glacières de la chaîne des Vosges . 1872.
  • Mémoire sur les lacs et les tourbières des Vosges . Gley E, Epinal 1871.
  • Vienna World Exhibition. Report on the Alsace industry . Colmar 1873.
  • Exposition universelle de Vienne. Notice on l'industrie et le commerce de l'Alsace . Strasbourg 1873.
  • Coup d'oeil sur l'exploitation des chemins de fer de l'Alsace-Lorraine . 1874.
  • Etudes historiques sur les naturalists de l'Alsace . 1874.
  • The wine tax legislation. Report to the International Viticulture Congress in Colmar . Strasbourg 1875.
  • De l'Influence de l'ablation sur la débâcle des mers polaires . impr. de E. Martinet, Paris 1875.
  • Etude sur les cours d'eau de l'Alsace, leurs débordements et leur régularisation . Jung J.-B, Colmar 1876.
  • Considérations sur les finances et l'administration de l'Alsace-Lorraine sous le régime allemand . Paris, Strasbourg and Mulhouse 1877.
  • Etablissements cotonniers du Logelbach filature et tissage . Colmar 1878.
  • Les forêts de l'Alsace et leur exploitation . Colmar 1877.
  • Local history, descriptions from Alsace about the country and its people . Vve JB Jung, Colmar 1878.
  • Etudes statistiques sur l'industrie de l'Alsace. I. Monographies industrielles. II. Institutional Industrial. Questions ouvrières . Colmar 1879, 1880.
  • Les Assurances ouvrières en Allemagne: caisses de malades, assurances against les accidents . Veuve Bader, Mulhouse 1882.
  • Lettres d'un simple bourgeois sur la politique en Alsace-Lorraine . (1882)
  • Etudes historiques sur les naturalistes de l'Alsace: Guillaume Philippe Schimper , sa vie et ses travaux. 1808-1880 . Notice lue à la Société d'histoire naturelle de Colmar. Decker C, Colmar 1880.
  • Politics and finance in Alsace-Lorraine . Speech given in the Regional Committee of Alsace-Lorraine (meeting on January 18, 1883). (Translated from Comar Ditsch). Strasbourg 1883.
  • The revision du cadastre et the péréquation de l'impôt foncier . Report fait au regional committee d'Alsace-Lorraine. Bader, Mulhouse 1884.
  • Le Peuple allemand, ses forces et ses ressources . Hachette, Paris 1888.
  • L'Alsace, le pays et ses habitants . Hachette, Paris 1889; Reprint: Contades, Strasbourg 1983. ISBN 2-903255-02-8
  • Billich, André, éditeur scientifique: Correspondance: textes inédits . Société d'histoire et d'archéologie Wickram de Turckheim, 1989.

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. 298.

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personal data
SURNAME Degree, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Turckheim ( Alsace )
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1890
Place of death Wintzenheim -Logelbach