Harkort faction

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The Harkort parliamentary group was a parliamentary group in the Prussian National Assembly from 1848, which is named after the industrialist Friedrich Harkort . It is located in the right center of Parliament.

Origin and structure

Harkort originally belonged to the liberal right. Together with the deputy Zachariae , who had previously belonged to the left center, he founded a new parliamentary group in mid-August 1848. Immediate reasons for Harkort's split from the liberal right were differences of opinion on mining and school legislation. On the latter question, Harkort supported the school reformers around Adolph Diesterweg and thus positioned himself against the ultra-montane and conservative MPs on the right. One reason, however, was that the right was unable to separate from the extreme conservatives. The Harkort faction differed from the liberal right primarily in its decidedly liberal and all-German orientation.

The faction remained rather small because it was hardly possible to pull more liberals away from the right. Overall, the group only made up about 20 and later 29 MPs. However, the group had clear internal rules of procedure and strict group discipline. A separate parliamentary correspondence was set up to spread their views. The parliamentary group included numerous Westphalian MPs such as the assessor Friedrich Ostermann from Dortmund , the mine administrator Julius Hambloch , the lawyer Joseph Brockhausen from Münster , the MP for Minden , Judicial Councilor Franz Ferdinand Gellern , the Undersecretary Friedrich Theodor Müller from Siegen and from the eastern provinces in addition to Zachariae the MP Fretzdorff . Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Bornemann , who was Minister of Justice in the Camphausen - Hansemann government , was considered one of the leaders of the parliamentary group after he entered parliament in September. His successor as Justice Minister, Karl Anton Maerker , also belonged to the parliamentary group.

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