Eduard Graf (doctor)

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Eduard Graf, 1885

Eduard Graf (born March 11, 1829 in Jöllenbeck , † August 19, 1895 in Konstanz ) was a German physician and politician .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1847, Graf moved to the University of Halle , where he first studied philology , then medicine and became a member of the Corps Guestphalia . As a representative of the Corps and the Seniors 'Convent in Halle, he took part in the Jena Corps Assembly in July 1848, the founding act of the Kösener Seniors' Convent Association. In autumn 1848 he moved to the University of Greifswald and became a Greifswald Prussian there . After receiving his doctorate in 1851, he initially served as a one-year voluntary doctor in the Guard Reserve Regiment. In the winter of 1852/53 he passed the state examination and set up as a general practitioner in Jungsbroich and Rensdorf.

From 1860 he practiced in Elberfeld , where he received a position as senior physician at St. Joseph's Hospital . Graf took part in the war against Austria in 1866 as a medical officer.

During the France campaign he was the doctor in charge of the reserve hospitals in Düsseldorf . In 1872 he became senior staff doctor in the reserve, in 1875 a medical councilor, in 1880 an extraordinary member of the Reich Health Office , in 1888 he was Medical council, 1889 senior staff physician 1st class and 1894 general physician 2nd class of the Landwehr.

From 1883 until his death in 1895, Graf was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the Düsseldorf 2 constituency (Elberfeld - Barmen). In 1894 he was elected second vice-president of the House of Representatives, and he held the office until his death.

His grave in the Evangelical Lutheran cemetery on Hochstrasse (2017)

His tomb is in the Lutheran cemetery on the high street in Wuppertal-Elberfeld and is since 2003 monument list entered the city of Wuppertal.

Scale request

In a speech given by the then Crown Prince Wilhelm in Bonn in 1887, he had expressed himself critical of the then usual questions regarding the scale of the Kösener Corps . Eduard Graf took up this suggestion and was able to convince 33 other members of the Prussian House of Representatives, who, like him, belonged to Kösener Corps, to also campaign for the abolition. When the motion came to a vote at the Kösener Congress in 1889, it was rejected by the Active Corps students with 14 SC votes despite the strong support from the old gentlemen around Eduard Graf . Only after the intervention by a representative of the Corps Borussia Bonn , who again declared the wish of his corps brother Kaiser Wilhelm to abolish the questions about the scale, was the vote again and the abolition decided.

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Graf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Bauer: The Jena Corps Assembly (July 15 to 17, 1848), the cradle of the Kösener Seniorenconventsverband . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 3 (1958), p. 29.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867–1918 (= Handbooks on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , Volume 3). Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 152; for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 722-725.
  3. ↑ Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
  4. ^ FW Bredt: The Corps Hansea in Bonn. Fifty years of its history. Cologne 1899, p. 129
  5. ^ Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. Vol. 1, p. 316
personal data
SURNAME Count, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicians and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Jöllenbeck
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1895
Place of death Constancy