Gottfried von Dusch

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Gottfried Maria (since 1881: Freiherr) von Dusch (born February 18, 1821 in Karlsruhe , † December 24, 1891 in Nice ) was a Baden lawyer and politician.

origin

Gottfried von Dusch came from an important family of politicians and notables from Baden. He was a son of the later Baden State Minister Alexander von Dusch and belonged to the Protestant Church.

job

After studying law at the universities of Munich (1836–1838) and Heidelberg (1838–1841), Dusch was accepted into the Baden civil service as a legal intern in July 1842. After working for the Freiburg City Office, the Rheinbischofsheim District Office and the Rastatt Court Court , he was employed as an assessor at the Karlsruhe Regional Office in 1846. In 1847 he was transferred to the Karlsruhe City Office as assessor. In September 1848 the Reich Ministry of Justice, formed in the course of the March Revolution , appointed him with several other South German judicial officials to investigate the events of the September riots in Frankfurt am Main . After completing this activity, Dusch asked in the spring of 1849 for a longer special leave, which was granted to him. He used his vacation to travel to France for further scientific and practical training. After his return in July 1849 he became civil commissioner and legal adviser to the invasion troops to suppress the Baden revolution . He later acted as an examining magistrate at the court martial in Rastatt. He then came to the Karlsruhe City Office as a clerk and in 1850 joined the Baden Ministry of the Interior as an assistant. In the same year he was promoted to ministerial assessor and in 1852 to ministerial councilor.

politics

Towards the end of 1862, Interior Minister August Lamey suggested that an administrative reform should be drawn up after the judiciary and administration had been separated. The draft law prepared by Dusch provided for the complete separation of the state district administration from the organs of self-government. The independence of the judiciary in public law disputes was to be strengthened by the establishment of an administrative court. The plan was approved by the interior minister and the entire government headed by Stabel , and shower was also entrusted with drafting the detailed draft law. The draft was accepted by both chambers of the Assembly of Estates without any major changes . On October 5, 1863, the administrative reform was published as a law concerning the organization of internal administration .

Eighteen months after the defeat of the Grand Duchy of Baden in the German War , Dusch joined the Jolly government on February 8, 1868 as chairman of the Ministry of Commerce . As Minister of Commerce, Dusch's first concern was the Baden credit system. After long negotiations, on March 16, 1870, the law on the establishment of Baden's first central bank , the Badische Bank in Mannheim , was passed. Shortly afterwards, the establishment of a credit bank as a stock corporation, the Rheinische Creditbank , was also approved in Mannheim . With these two institutes, the up-and-coming trading and industrial region of Baden had the banks it needed to supply its economy with loans. In particular, Dusch promoted the development of the Mannheim trading center as much as possible. New port facilities and a new passenger station were built.

The further expansion of the route network of the Baden State Railways with connections to neighboring countries was also a focus of his activities. In the summer of 1868 he and his long-time friend Alfred Escher agreed to take measures in Zurich to subsidize the construction of the Gotthard Railway, which was in financial difficulties . To this end, they proposed a conference held in Bern in September 1869 , at which the participating states agreed on the subsidies to be paid. Dusch succeeded in getting Baden to contribute three million francs to the construction of the Gotthard Railway . Through a contract with the Swiss Central Railway , the connection of the Baden railway with bridging the Rhine near Basel was decided, whereby the German Empire, founded after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, also benefited from this connection in the future.

Shower's other activities as Minister of Commerce concerned the establishment of the State Culture Council in 1868, the implementation of the Field Clearance Act in 1869, the Fisheries Act in 1870, the completion of the Baden state road network and the first introduction of arts and crafts instruction.

In addition, from 1869 to 1870, Dusch was a member of the 38th electoral district (Buchen) in the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly.

The restless political activity was impaired since the summer of 1871 by a severe eye disease, which led to increasing blindness. For this reason, Dusch resigned from his ministerial office on October 28, 1872. So he retired shortly before the end of the economic boom .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ The life dates correspond to the information in the Baden biographies . In the ADB , the birthday is February 16, 1821 and the date of death December 18, 1891
  2. ↑ In 1841 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg ; Kösener corps lists 1960, 67 , 297
personal data
SURNAME Shower, Gottfried von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shower, Gottfried Maria Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1891
Place of death Nice