Friedrich Boettcher (journalist)

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Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Boettcher , also Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Böttcher (born February 13, 1842 in Mengeringhausen , † May 13, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German national liberal journalist and politician.

Life

Böttcher was the son of Heinrich Philipp Boettcher (* 1812) and his wife Johannette Friederike Caroline nee Schluckebier. Böttcher attended the higher middle school in Arolsen before he graduated from the Landesgymnasium in Korbach in 1861. He then studied in Berlin , Jena , Leipzig and Freiburg im Breisgau . During his studies in 1862 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity Germania and in 1864 a member of the Freiburg fraternity Teutonia . After first studying theology, he turned to philosophy, history and political science. In 1865 he received his doctorate with the work “On the essence of the Augsburg Religious Peace” in Leipzig.

He then worked for a short time as a private lecturer in Leipzig. In 1867 he became a member of the National Liberal Party . Since then he has worked as a journalist, author and editor for several newspapers with a national liberal orientation in various German cities. Between 1874 and 1894 he was editor of the "National Liberal Correspondence". This was the official organ of the National Liberal Party. After his departure he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin.

He was a member of the central executive committee of the National Liberal Party from 1881 to 1911, with a few interruptions. Between 1876 and 1895 he was a member of the Reichstag . He represented the Waldeck-Pyrmont constituency in the Reichstag .

After the November Revolution he joined the DVP and ran for it in the election for the constitution-making Waldeck-Pyrmont state representation in second place on the DVP list. Since the DVP only received one mandate, only the top candidate Oskar Varnhagen was elected.

In 1903 he was made an honorary citizen of Mengeringhausen. The conductor Fritz Busch was his son-in-law.

The estate Hooper is located in the archives of the liberalism of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Gummersbach .

Fonts

  • The constitutional law of the principality of Waldeck. In: Handbook of Public Law. Freiburg 1884.
  • Eduard Stephani . A contribution to the history of the National Liberal Party . Leipzig 1887.
  • Ora et labora . Novel. Leipzig 1889.
  • Speech at the National Liberal Party congress in the province of Saxony in Halle on December 1, 1889 . Berlin 1889.
  • On the political situation. Disability and old age insurance. Speeches by the Reichstag deputies Boettcher and Duvigneau in the ordinary general assembly of the National Liberal Association for the Kingdom of Saxony on May 19, 1889 in Dresden . Berlin 1889.
  • Harald Mischnick, Jürgen Frölich: Against social democracy and the large bloc. Unpublished articles on domestic policy 1909–1913 from the estate of Friedrich Böttcher. In: Yearbook on Liberalism Research . 4: 33-84 (1992).

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 114-115.
  • Jürgen Frölich , Susanne Schulze: Estate of Friedrich Böttcher MdR (1842–1922) in the archive of liberalism. In: The archivist. 57 (2004), no. 2, pp. 136-137. (Digitized version)
  • 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. 20 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
  • Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 3, Leipzig 1905, p. 270. (digitized version)
  • Harald Mischnick: Friedrich Böttcher. National liberal, publicist and patriot from Mengeringhausen. In: History sheets for Waldeck. 81: 163-186 (1993).
  • Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberales Waldeck and Pyrmont and Waldeck-Frankenberg 1821–1981, 1984, pp. 129–138.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 114.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Luckemeyer: Liberales Waldeck and Pyrmont and Waldeck-Frankenberg 1821–1981, 1984, pp. 263–264.
personal data
SURNAME Boettcher, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boettcher, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm (full name); Böttcher, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German national liberal journalist and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Mengeringhausen
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1922
Place of death Berlin