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Ernst Lieber, contemporary engraving

Ernst Lieber, photograph by Loescher & Petsch, Berlin around 1874

Philipp Ernst Maria Lieber (born November 16, 1838 in Camberg ; † March 31, 1902 there ) was a center politician and a member of the Reichstag .

Life

Ernst Lieber was the son of the lawyer, politician and tea merchant Moritz Joseph Josias Lieber . The church painter Philipp Veit , the Limburg bishop Peter Josef Blum and the politically influential Mainz bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler were friends of his parents. Ernst Lieber obtained his Abitur at the grammar school in Hadamar . From 1858 he studied law in Würzburg , Munich and Bonn . Finally, Lieber did his doctorate in Heidelberg . After his father's death in 1863, he interrupted his habilitation and supported the mother in bringing up the youngest siblings and in his parents' tea trading company. In Camberg he founded a trade association and a Catholic social association. On September 24, 1873, Ernst Lieber married Josefine Arnold (1853–1932), who was 15 years his junior. The marriage had twelve children. He preferred to be a member of the Catholic student associations AV Austria Innsbruck , KAV Suevia Berlin , KDStV Winfridia Breslau , VKDSt Rhenania Marburg and KDStV Bavaria Bonn .

Act

Ernst Lieber was active in the development of church associations and was soon one of the leading representatives of lay Catholicism in the Diocese of Limburg .

At the instigation of Bishop Blum, Lieber gave his first speech on a Catholic day in 1869 . Later he was one of the co-founders of the " Center (Constitutional Party)" whose party chairmanship he took over in 1891 after the death of Ludwig Windthorst . He was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives in 1870 and to the first Reichstag in March 1871 . He held both mandates until his death. During the Kulturkampf he made a name for himself as an eloquent opponent of Bismarck , especially in the debates about the statutory Sunday rest , the restriction of women and child labor and the general limitation of working hours. After the partial withdrawal of the Kulturkampf Laws, the party took a markedly national course under his leadership. In particular, Lieber supported the naval drafts, with which he supported the great power politics of Kaiser Wilhelm II .

He also preferred to be politically active in his hometown Camberg . He was a member of the city council and was temporarily head of the city council. He was also a member of the district council and district committee, also the municipal parliament of the administrative district of Wiesbaden , as well as the provincial parliament of the Prussian province Hesse-Nassau in Kassel . In Camberg , Ernst Lieber had the Lieber Tower built on old foundations in 1889, and he received visitors in the tower room.

In 1885, Lieber was elected President of the Katholikentag in Münster .

Awards

Pope Leo XIII. awarded him the Grand Commander's Cross of the Order of Pius and appointed him Privy Chamberlain .

literature

H. Cardauns: Ernst Lieber. The career of a politician up to his entry into parliament 1838–1871. Wiesbaden 1927.
Rudolf Morsey : Dear, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 477 f. ( Digitized version ).
Manfred Berger: Dear, Ernst. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 830-834. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , pp. 97 f .; uni-kassel.de (PDF; 2.2 MB).

Web links

Dear Phillip Ernst in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Ernst Philip Lieber . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

^ 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. 155 .
↑ A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883 . Statistics of the elections to the constituent and North German Reichstag, to the customs parliament, as well as to the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 93 f .
↑ Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach . 9th edition. Verlag Franz Duncker, Berlin May 9, 1871, p. 221 .
^ Reichstag Bureau (ed.): Official Reichstag manual . Tenth legislative term 1898/1903. Reichstag printing house, Berlin 1898, p. 223 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Dear Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dear, Philipp Ernst Maria (full name); Dear, Ernst Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	November 16, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Camberg
DATE OF DEATH	March 31, 1902
Place of death	Camberg

[1] 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. 155 .

[2] A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883 . Statistics of the elections to the constituent and North German Reichstag, to the customs parliament, as well as to the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 93 f .

[3] Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach . 9th edition. Verlag Franz Duncker, Berlin May 9, 1871, p. 221 .

[4] Reichstag Bureau (ed.): Official Reichstag manual . Tenth legislative term 1898/1903. Reichstag printing house, Berlin 1898, p. 223 f .