Conrad Haussmann

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Conrad Haussmann

Conrad Haussmann , in some sources also Konrad , (* February 8, 1857 in Stuttgart ; † February 11, 1922 ibid) was a German politician in the Democratic People's Party and later the DDP .

family

Family grave at the Heslach cemetery

Haussmann came from a democratic Württemberg family. His father Julius Haußmann was involved in the revolution of 1848 in the Kingdom of Württemberg . His mother was Swiss . His twin brother Friedrich was also a member of the German Reichstag . Haußmann was married to Helene Kausler from 1887. With her he had two sons. The older son Robert worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart and was president of the local bar association. His son Wolfgang Haußmann (1903–1989) was Baden-Württemberg Minister of Justice from 1953 to 1966.

The family grave where Conrad Haußmann was buried is located in the Heslacher Friedhof in Stuttgart.

Life and work

After graduating from the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Stuttgart studied Haussmann in Zurich , Munich , Berlin and Tübingen law and settled as a lawyer in Stuttgart 1883rd In 1907 he took part with Hermann Hesse , with whom he was friends, and Ludwig Thoma in the founding of the political-literary magazine "März" , in which he partly wrote under the pseudonym Heinrich Hutter . Haussmann, who campaigned for Franco-German reconciliation, gave Anatole France and Jean Jaurès the opportunity to write in “March”.

Political party

As a young man, Haussmann joined the People's Party in Württemberg , which had been the Württemberg State Association of the Progressive People's Party since 1910 . From 1885 he formed the leadership of the party together with his brother and Friedrich Payer . Under their leadership, the People's Party became the strongest force in the state elections in 1895 with 32.5%.

After the First World War he was one of the co-founders of the German Democratic Party and was instrumental in ensuring that the Württemberg Democrats joined the DDP as a regional association.

MP

From 1889 until his death, Haussmann was a member of the state parliament in Württemberg , until 1918 in the second chamber of the state estates of the Kingdom of Württemberg , then since 1919 in the state parliament of the Free People's State of Württemberg . As a member of the People's Democratic Party, he campaigned for constitutional reform.

From 1890 to 1918 he was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Württemberg 9 ( Balingen , Rottweil , Spaichingen , Tuttlingen ). As a member of the Reichstag, he worked with Eugen Richter and his faction of the German Freethinking Party , since the German People's Party in the Reichstag could not reach parliamentary groups. During the Daily Telegraph affair , Haussmann became known to the general public with his call for a constitutional form of government . After the merger of his party with the Liberal People's Party and the Liberal Association to form the Progressive People's Party , he increasingly assumed a leading role in the liberalism of the German Empire. In July 1917 he was one of the initiators of a resolution of the Reichstag on a mutual agreement to end the First World War , which, however, ultimately could not prevail. On October 14, 1918, Haussmann was appointed State Secretary without portfolio in the Baden cabinet. There he was mainly responsible for drafting statements by the Chancellor. When the government failed, Haussmann gave up his office, although Friedrich Ebert would have liked to have accepted him into his cabinet. At the state level, he took over the state chairmanship of the German Democratic Party (DDP), newly founded at the end of 1918 . When he was elected to the German National Assembly in early 1919, he entered the National Assembly for the DDP . There he was a Vice President of the Presidium and at the same time took over the chairmanship of the “Committee for the preliminary consultation of the draft constitution of the German Reich”. At the state level, Haussmann failed in 1920 when he attempted to be elected President of the People's State of Württemberg . After he was unable to assert himself against Johannes von Hieber , he withdrew from state politics, but remained a member of the Reichstag until his death in 1922 .

literature

  • Lothar Albertin:  Haussmann, Conrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , pp. 130 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Reinhold A. Helmut Franz: The problem of the constitutional parliamentarization with Conrad Haussmann and Friedrich von Payer . Kümmerle, Göppingen 1977 (also: Marburg University dissertation 1976), ISBN 3-87452-332-2 .
  • Karin Rabenstein-Kiermaier: Conrad Haußmann (1857–1922). Life and work of a Swabian liberal . Lang, Frankfurt 1993, ISBN 3-631-45797-9 .
  • Jürgen Frölich : Conrad Haußmann (1857–1922). In: Reinhold Weber / Ines Mayer (Hrsg.): Political minds from southwest Germany. Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-17-018700-9 , pp. 43-53.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 333 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the individual elections see Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1232-1235.
personal data
SURNAME Haussmann, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutter, Heinrich (pseudonym); Haussmann, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (VP, DtVP, FVP, DDP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1922
Place of death Stuttgart