Georg Friedrich Kolb

Georg Friedrich Kolb

Georg Friedrich Kolb (born September 14, 1808 in Speyer , † May 15, 1884 in Munich ) was a German publisher , publicist and politician .

Life

Kolb was the son of Jakob Christian Kolb and Karoline Christine, née Prior, and attended elementary school and Progymnasium in Speyer. At the age of 14, he joined his father's book printing company in Speyer. After his father died in 1827, he took over and worked from then on as a publicist and publisher, including in the Neue Speyerer Zeitung and as the author of the Rotteck - Welcker State Lexicon . He was arrested for the first time in 1832 on the basis of his articles, but was ultimately acquitted on charges.

Kolb was a prominent liberal politician and was a member of a fraternity . Among other things, he was a participant in the Hambach Festival in 1832 and was invited to the Heppenheim conference in 1847 , although he did not take part. In 1838 he was elected as the youngest member of the Speyer city council and in 1848 as mayor. He was a delegate in the pre-parliament , president of the electoral commission of the Fifties Committee and represented Speyer in the Frankfurt National Assembly from May 18, 1848 to June 18, 1849 . There he represented democratic and Greater German positions. From 1848 until his resignation on November 20, 1853 he was also a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies .

In 1849 he was a signatory of a call for imperial constitution campaign , he was from July 23, 1849 for several months in Two Bridges for crimes of seduction of troops as well as crimes of the support provided for illegal authorities detained and on 3 January 1850 by the Court of Appeal of the Palatinate of every accusation acquitted. In 1853 he had to flee to Zurich, where he spent six years in exile with his family. Kolb also published scientific works, around 1857 the handbook of comparative statistics or work on Kaspar Hauser . Because of his statistical work, he was a Swiss delegate to a statistical congress in London in 1860 and was elected honorary member of the Council of Kharkov University in 1864. In 1869 he became an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Central Statistical Commission.

From 1859 he worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung , whose political editor he was from 1864. In 1866 he gave up this activity after the newspaper was occupied and sealed by Prussian troops, but continued to write for the newspaper.

From 1863 to February 7, 1872 he was again a member of the state parliament in Bavaria. From 1868 to 1869 he was a non-attached member of the Customs Parliament , in which South German MPs discussed the economic development of the Customs Union with the representatives of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation .

He spent the last years of his life in Munich.

literature

• Walter Braeuer:  Kolb, Georg Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 441 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Friedrich Kolb  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Georg Friedrich Kolb in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Friedrich Kolb in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Georg Friedrich Kolb (1808–1884) on Demokratiegeschichte.eu
• Kolb, Dr. Georg Friedrich (PDF, 73 KB)
• Georg Friedrich Kolb in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurt Baumann: Pfälzer Lebensbilder, first volume, 1964, p. 241 ff.
2. ^ Profile and importance of the fraternities in Baden in the first half of the 19th century