Ernst Bareuther

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Ernst Bareuther, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1880

Johann Christian Ernst Bareuther (nickname "Ernst"; born January 19, 1838 in Asch , Bohemia , Austrian Empire ; † August 17, 1905 in Freiburg im Breisgau , German Empire ) was a Bohemian - Austrian lawyer and politician ( German national ).

Life

Ernst Bareuther was born on January 19, 1838 early in the morning around 4 a.m. as the son of the woven goods manufacturer and later mayor Johann Christian Bareuther (born January 16, 1804 in Asch, † October 7, 1876 ibid) and Sophia born. Just, daughter of pastor Karl August Just, was born in Asch and baptized on January 25, 1838 in the Evangelical Trinity Church in Asch. The stocking manufacturer Johann Christian Wunderlich was his godfather. He began his school career at the elementary school in Asch and later switched to the Fröbel School of Education in Keilhau near Rudolstadt in Thuringia for a few years . He then attended the KK Ober-Gymnasium in Eger.

After graduation studied Bareuther law first at the Charles University in Prague and later at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1868 with a doctorate to Dr. jur. from. During his academic years in Prague he was a member and several times chairman of the reading and speech hall of German students in Prague and co-founder and chairman of the German Association in Vienna . After completing his studies, Bareuther began working as a lawyer in Vienna. From 1871 to 1905 he was a member of the Bohemian Landtag and from 1873 to 1905 he was also a member of the Austrian Imperial Council for the Bohemian constituency of Eger -Asch- Franzensbad - Roßbach . From 1882 to 1885 Bareuther was also a member of the Vienna City Council . In Vienna he was a member of the presbytery of the Protestant community and, as a staunch Protestant, was also a leader in the Los-von-Rom movement . Bareuther suffered from a serious illness in the last years of his life, which is why he had to operate and have both feet amputated . However, he remained mentally fit until the end of his life. He died in Freiburg im Breisgau, was transferred to his hometown Asch and buried there in 1905.

For his political work and his commitment to Bohemia, Bareuther became an honorary citizen of his native town of Asch and of the town of Eger, which also belongs to his constituency . In addition, he was honored with membership in the Prague University Choir Barden, the University Choir Ghibellinen Vienna and the Prague fraternity Teutonia . The honorary memberships can be explained both with Bareuther's commitment to the Germans in Bohemia and with his generally very close intermeshing with the Prague corporations . Like the German national politicians Raphael Pacher and Karl Hermann Wolf , Bareuther also won a few comrades-in-arms and party members from these circles for his political ideas.

Political classification and career

Bareuther originally had an Austrian-German- liberal attitude and from the 1880s and 1890s increasingly represented German national positions. In 1873 he was a co-founder of the Progress Club in the Austrian Reichsrat, which merged in 1881 with the German Liberal Party to form the United Left , to which Bareuther belonged from then on. The Progress Club called for a more determined approach to solving national problems in the cisleithan part of the Habsburg Empire through a stronger unification of Czech and Austrian countries among German nationalists. From the 1880s onwards, Bareuther campaigned for the German state language in Cisleithanien and for the constitutional separation of Germans and Czechs in Bohemia, including clearly delimited settlement areas.

After the split in the United Left, Bareuther was a member of the German-free German Club from 1885 to 1887 . He was then represented in the German National Association , which in turn had split off from the German Club. In 1895 he was a co-founder and one of the most important representatives of the German People's Party under Otto Steinwender, and in 1898 he joined the Pan-German Association of Georg von Schönerer , to which he belonged until his death. In the Reichsrat election in 1901 , he made a significant contribution to the great success of the Pan-German Association, especially in the Eger region.

After he was one of the founding members of the German School Association in 1880 , he also participated in the founding of the Federation of Germans in Bohemia in 1894 . In general, he strove for a closer economic and political relationship with the German Empire and advocated the thesis “Los von Ungarn!”. Bareuther repeatedly took the opportunity in the Reichsrat to demonstrate his enthusiasm for Bismarck's national policy in a demonstrative way. For example, in a speech given on February 9, 1888, he said:

“At a time when the war against the German language is being waged inside and outside the countries, the war against German education in popular classes, the war against the German spirit in the universities, just at the same moment in which Czech sugar and Polish brandy came to the point of distributing the skin, which is to be deducted from the new taxes, step by step, at the same moment a good news finally reached us again, from which we see that at least in the Foreign Office Understanding that German and Austrian interests are the same and have not been lost. "

- Ernst Bareuther : contribution to the Austrian Reichsrat

In May 1896, at a session of the House of Representatives, he took the view that illiterate people in the German Empire should not have the right to vote .

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Sturm (1979), p. 48 f.
  2. ↑ Aš-evangelická 13 , portafontium.eu, accessed on December 19, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Abg. Dr. Ernst Bareuther †. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic organ / Neues Wiener Abendblatt. Evening edition of the (") Neue Wiener Tagblatt (") / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt / Wiener Mittagsausgabe with Sportblatt / 6 o'clock evening paper / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Neue Freie Presse - Neues Wiener Journal / Neues Wiener Tagblatt , August 18, 1905, p. 25 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg
  4. ↑ a b c d e BAREUTHER Ernst January 19, 1838 - August 17 , 1905 , biography.hiu.cas.cz, accessed on December 19, 2019
  5. ↑ Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (1957), p. 50
  6. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : From "Ghibellinia goes, Germania comes!" To "People want to people!" - mentalities, structures and organizations in the Prague student body 1866–1914. In: Sudetendeutsches Archiv München (Ed.): Yearbook for Sudeten German museums and archives 1995–2001 , Munich 2001, pp. 34–77. Digitized version ( memento of November 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 212 kB), p. 12
  7. ↑ Harald Lönnecker: "He held his protective hand over the fraternities ..." Franz Spina and the academic associations . In: Steffen Höhne, Ludger Udolph: Franz Spina (1868–1938): A Prague Slavist Between University and Political Public (Intellectual Prague in the 19th and 20th Centuries), ISBN 978-3-412-20747-2 , p. 175 online: (PDF; 509 KB)
  8. ↑ Barta, Erwin and Bell, Karl: History of the protection work on the German Volkstum . Ed .: Association for Germanness Abroad. Wirtschaftsunternehmen GmbH, Dresden 1930, p. 14 .
  9. ↑ From the House of Representatives. In:  Ostdeutsche Rundschau. Viennese weekly for politics, economics, art and literature / Ostdeutsche Rundschau. Deutsches Tagblatt , May 6, 1896, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / or
personal data
SURNAME Bareuther, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Ash
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1905
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau