Ernst Blankenhorn

Ernst Blankenhorn as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Ernst Blankenhorn (born June 14, 1853 in Müllheim ; † May 19, 1917 there ) was a winery owner, mayor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Blankenhorn came from a winemaking family and attended secondary schools in Müllheim and Freiburg , the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig , where he received his doctorate. In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Franconia in 1872 . He was Rittmeister of the Landwehr cavalry. From 1890 to 1899 he was mayor of Müllheim and, after his resignation, an honorary citizen of his hometown, as well as an honorary citizen of the spa town of Badenweiler . He was also a member of the Baden Landtag (II. Baden Chamber) from 1895. From 1887 to 1890 and from 1893 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Baden 4 Lörrach , Müllheim and the National Liberal Party . Both mandates ended with his death.

In the Reichstag in 1901 and 1908/09 he was chairman of the commission for the consultation of the wine law, 1903/04 chairman of the commission for the consultation of the phylloxera law, and also a member of the customs tariff and trade treaty commissions. He was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of the Zähringer Löwen , the Knight's Cross of the Order Berthold the First and the Royal Prussian Crown Order III. Class.

Web links

Ernst Blankenhorn in the database of members of the Reichstag
Ernst Blankenhorn's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Speeches by Ernst Blankenhorn in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

Individual evidence

^ Corps list of Franconia Karlsruhe 1839–1929 , No. 237
^ 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. 251; on the elections from 1893 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. 1275-1278.

personal data
SURNAME	Blankenhorn, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German winery owner and politician, MdR, mayor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 14, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muellheim (Baden)
DATE OF DEATH	May 19, 1917
Place of death	Muellheim (Baden)

[1] Corps list of Franconia Karlsruhe 1839–1929 , No. 237

[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. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 251; on the elections from 1893 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. 1275-1278.