Hermann Quarck

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Hermann Quarck as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Carl Hermann Quarck (born August 16, 1873 in Coburg , † August 3, 1932 in Berlin ) was a state councilor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Birthplace at Steinweg 24, Coburg with a memorial plaque

Quarck attended the Casimirianum high school in Coburg from 1883 to 1892 and studied law and political science in Heidelberg , Berlin and Jena from 1892 to 1896. During his studies in 1892, he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . From 1896 he was a trainee lawyer at the district court of Coburg , and received his doctorate as Dr. jur. in Jena, passed the court assessor examination in Jena in 1901 and was employed by the administrative authorities of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha from June 17, 1901. From 1906 he was a government advisor and consultant in the Gotha ministerial department, from January 1, 1907 in Department A. of the Ducal State Ministry in Coburg, and from April 1, 1910 as an assistant in the Reich Office of the Interior for six months. 1896-97 he served as a one-year volunteer in the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 95 and was first lieutenant in Landwehr I. He was awarded the Knight's Cross, 2nd class of the Ernestine House Order .

In 1909, he ran for a substitute election in the Coburg constituency after the death of his father, Burkhardt Quarck , a member of the Reichstag and secret judiciary , but was defeated by the Social Democrat Fritz Zietsch in the runoff .

From 1912 he was a member of the German Reichstag of the National Liberal Party for the constituency of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha 1 Coburg . He resigned this mandate on May 23, 1914.

From August 1, 1912, he was chairman of the ducal district office in Coburg with the official title of district administrator and from June 1, 1914, with the official title of state councilor, he was head of the Coburg ministerial department. From 1914 to 1917 Quarck took part in the First World War as a captain in the Landwehr in the 71st Line Infantry Regiment .

On March 10, 1919, Quarck was elected by the Coburg regional assembly as a member of the three-member government of the Free State of Coburg . Until his resignation on July 2, 1919, he was head of the State Ministry and chairman of the state government. During this time he played a key role in the negotiations for the severance contract of June 7, 1919 with the former Duke Carl Eduard and the establishment of the Coburg State Foundation . The reason for the resignation was the nomination of Reinhold Artmann by the social democratic parliamentary group, which had the majority in the state assembly, as Coburg government representative in the State Council of Thuringia.

After the unification of Coburg with Bavaria, Quarck was from October 1, 1923, until his death, Real Legation Councilor at the Bavarian Embassy in Berlin and Deputy Bavarian Representative at the Reichsrat. On December 1, 1927, he became a Privy Councilor and head of the Bavarian Economic Office in Berlin.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 362-363.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de
  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. 1438-1442.
  3. ^ Government Gazette for the Duchy of Coburg, June 26, 1912
  4. ^ Government Gazette for the Duchy of Coburg, May 27, 1914
  5. ↑ http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/artikel/artikel_44876
  6. ↑ Jürgen Erdmann: Coburg, Bavaria and the Reich 1918–1923. Druckhaus and Vesteverlag A. Rossteutscher, Coburg 1969, p. 40

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personal data
SURNAME Quarck, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quarck, Carl Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German State Councilor and Politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1932
Place of death Berlin