Franz Xaver Hoën

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Franz Xaver Hoën

Franz Xaver Hoën (born March 15, 1864 in Großblittersdorf ; † November 9, 1935 there ) was a mill owner and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

From 1869 to 1874 Hoën attended the Großblittersdorf elementary school and the Saargemünd grammar school up to the prima level . After an apprenticeship in the company of the mill owner Martin in Faulquemont, as the eldest son of his father, who died young, he took over his mill at the age of 18. He was also an occasional correspondent for the central newspaper, a member of the People's Association for Catholic Germany , head of the savings and loan association, and vice-president of the product exchange in Saarbrücken . In 1913 he became an honorary member of the KDSt.V. Rappoltstein (Strasbourg) Cologne appointed. In the same year he was a member of the presidium of the German Catholic Congress in Metz .

politics

From 1907 to 1912 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen 12 ( Saargemünd , Forbach ) and the German Center Party .

In 1894 Franz Xaver Hoën was elected to the municipal council in Großblittersdorf. On June 27, 1906 he was one of the founding members of the Saargemünd Center Electoral Association and was elected chairman. In the Reichstag elections in 1907 , Hoën was elected to the German Reichstag with 51% of the votes as a candidate for the Alsace-Lorraine Center Party for the Saargemünd-Forbach constituency.

In the Reichstag election in 1907 , he prevailed in the first ballot with 15,980 votes against the mandate holder Max Jaunez (9,940 votes), the factory worker Mischkowitz (2,468 votes) and the business agent Cachan (56 votes).

He held this mandate from 1907 to 1912. In 1912 he won the mandate in the constituency of Saargemünd I and moved into the 2nd Chamber of the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine . From 11. to 21. November 1918 he was Vice-President of the Provisional Government of Alsace-Lorraine. He then retired from politics for health reasons.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://chronik.rappoltstein.de/4.1%20RAP%20EM%20und%20Treueste.pdf , p. 356
  2. ^ 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. 1542-1545.
  3. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for Alsace-Lorraine 1909, page 276
personal data
SURNAME Hoën, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mill owner and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Großblittersdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1935
Place of death Großblittersdorf