Felix Porsch
Felix Porsch (born April 30, 1853 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia , † December 8, 1930 in Breslau ) was a German lawyer and politician of the Center Party .
Life
After graduating from high school in Glogau, Felix Porsch studied law in Tübingen , Breslau , Leipzig and Berlin . On April 22, 1872 he became a member of the Catholic academic student association AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) and on May 5, 1873 a member of the KDStV Winfridia Breslau in the CV, in 1876 he joined the KAV Suevia Berlin in the CV and in 1879 co-founded the KDStV Burgundia Leipzig . Later he became an honorary member of the KDStV Markomannia Würzburg and the VKDSt Saxonia Münster in the CV. In the 1920s he advocated the establishment of a Catholic student union at the Prussian Forestry School in Hann. Münden . Repeatedly he and his parliamentary group colleague Christian Blank advocated that more Catholic students were admitted to the higher forest administration service in Prussia , which until then had been predominantly Protestant. His repeated petitions and statements in the Prussian House of Representatives were successful. In 1927, he and other Cartell brothers founded the Rheno-Guestfalia forest academy in Hann. Münden in the CV, which continues today at the University of Göttingen . In total, he was a member of 28 CV associations .
In 1876 he was appointed by the University of Breslau Doctor of Laws doctorate and worked as a lawyer in Wroclaw from the 1879th There he was a member of the city council from 1881 to 1903.
Felix Porsch was one of the leading German politicians of the Wilhelmine era , a committed representative of the German Center Party and its chairman since 1904.
He was a member of the Reichstag from 1881 to 1893 and of the Prussian Landtag from 1883 to 1930. From 1883 to 1918 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Breslau administrative district 8 ( Neurode - Glatz - Habelschwerdt ). From 1903 to 1918 he was the first Vice President of the House of Representatives. Felix Porsch was a member of the first constituent state assembly of Prussia in 1919, in the first state parliament in 1921/22 and its vice-president in the second (1924) and third state parliament (1928). On November 28, 1929, he handed over his office to Josef Baumhoff . He was also parliamentary group leader of the Center Party from 1904 to 1930. His successor was Joseph Hess .
Porsch's main concern was to secure a position in parliament for the Catholics and workers who Bismarck once regarded as “enemies of the Reich”. Porsch was also a representative of the Weimar coalition , who sought cooperation with the German Democratic Party (DDP) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) for the center.
During the academic culture war between 1903 and 1908, he resolutely supported the Catholic student associations. Felix Porsch was the founder of the old gentlemen's association of the Cartell Association and its first chairman. Porsch was president of the Katholikentage of 1889 in Bochum, 1892 in Mainz and 1904 in Regensburg.
He was buried in Eltville .
Felix Porsch Johannes Denk Foundation
The Felix Porsch John's Brain Foundation of Cartellverbandes promotes since 1969 targeted young scientists in the study at home and abroad with scholarships .
literature
- Görres-Gesellschaft (ed.): Festschrift for Felix Porsch for his seventieth birthday . Paderborn 1923.
- 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 , p. 124 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
- Hans Heckel (Ed.): The Catholic German student union Winfridia in Breslau 1906-1931 . Breslau 1931 (mwN)
- August Hermann Leugers-Scherzberg: Felix Porsch 1853–1930. Politics for Catholic Interests in the Empire and Republic . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-7867-1491-6 .
- August Hermann Leugers-Scherzberg: The center faction in the Prussian state constitution-making assembly 1919–1921. Meeting minutes . Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5179-3 .
- Helmut Neubach: Porsch, Felix. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 637 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Christoph Schmitt: Felix Porsch. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 1087-1096.
- CV manual. 3. Edition. Regensburg 2000.
Web links
- Literature by and about Felix Porsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Felix Porsch in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 304; 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. 334-337.
- ↑ Felix Porsch's death note at www.rhein-erft-geschichte.de, viewed on July 27, 2016
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porsch, Felix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Center Party), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratibor , Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1930 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |