Eduard Marcour

Eduard Marcour (ca.1912)

Eduard Marcour (born October 24, 1848 in Kalkar , † August 1, 1924 in Koblenz ) was a German journalist for Catholic newspapers and politicians for the Center Party .

Life

Marcour attended high school in Emmerich . He then studied philology and history in Münster , Göttingen and Bonn . He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. He then worked as an author and journalist, mainly for Catholic newspapers. He worked in Mainz , Cologne and Münster. In Münster he was editor-in-chief of the Westphalian Merkur. Between 1891 and 1894 he was editor-in-chief of the center newspaper Germania . Under his leadership, the paper claimed to be the central organ of German Catholics. The newspaper was aimed at the Catholic elite. After that, he was editor-in-chief of the Koblenzer Volkszeitung and director of the Görres printing company until 1920.

Marcour was a member of the Center Party. He was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1896 to 1918 and of the German Reichstag as a member of the constituency of Düsseldorf 8 (Kleve - Geldern) from 1893 to 1918.

Individual evidence

↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 261f (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); 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. 770-772.
^ 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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 169 - Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 94 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)

literature

A. Plate: Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives. Edition for the 20th legislative period. Berlin, 1904 p. 338
Jürgen Michael Schulz: Church on the move: The socio-political engagement of the Catholic press in Berlin in Wilhelmine Germany. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1994 p. 36. Partial digitization

Web links

Literature by and about Eduard Marcour in the catalog of the German National Library
Eduard Marcour in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Eduard Marcour . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

personal data
SURNAME	Marcour, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kalkar
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1924
Place of death	Koblenz

[1] Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 261f (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); 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. 770-772.

[2] 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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 169 - Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 94 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)