Georg Wolf (politician)

Georg Wolf (born January 29, 1871 in Hatten ; † 1951 ) was a liberal German politician and journalist.

Life

Georg Wolf was a Protestant pastor in Alsace-Lorraine. He was editor-in-chief of the Straßburger Zeitung and from 1908 of the Straßburger Neue Zeitung .

On October 11, 1903, the Liberal State Party was formed in the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine as an amalgamation of various liberal parties and groups. Georg Wolf, who as a supporter of Friedrich Naumann represented more left-wing liberal positions, was elected 2nd chairman. Set up by the Liberals as a candidate for the Reichstag for the constituency of Schlettstadt , he was unable to win a seat in the 1903 Reichstag election.

In 1909 Georg Wolf was elected to the state committee.

He ran for the Liberal Democrats in the state elections in 1911 in the Strasbourg I constituency for the state parliament of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine . In the first ballot it received 1,989 votes or 45.5%. In the by-election, Georg Wolf was clearly ahead with 3,138 votes or 98.0%. Georg Wolf was a member of the state parliament from 1911 to 1918.

His brother, Alfred Wolf, was also elected as a member of the state parliament in this election . The third brother Paul Wolf became director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1926 .

On August 8, 1914, the most important newspapers in Alsace (the Strasbourg post , the left-liberal Strasbourg citizen newspaper , the Strasbourg latest news and the Strasbourg new newspaper ) printed Georg Wolf's article "The German Alsace Awakens". In it he explains that it is the "sacred duty" of Alsace, like all other parts of Germany, to fight on the side of the Reich in the beginning World War I.

"The particularistic, which we cannot completely forget, is supposed to provide an incentive for our people in the hot days that lie ahead, but has to take a back seat to what we have in common, which is in the little German word."

- Hermann Hiery: “Reichstag elections in the Reichsland”, page 81/82

literature

• Theodor Heuss: Departure in the Empire. Letters 1892–1917 (= Stuttgart edition. Letters. ). Edited and edited by Frieder Günther . Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-25123-8 , p. 604, ( online ).
• Hermann Hiery : Reichstag elections in the Reichsland. A contribution to the regional history of Alsace-Lorraine and the electoral history of the German Empire 1871–1918 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. 80). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5132-7 , pp. 98, 337, 380, (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1984).