Hermann Schmalz

Hermann Schmalz (born August 12, 1807 in Bonitz , Province of Saxony ; † May 6, 1879 in Pillkallen , Province of East Prussia ) was a German landowner and administrative lawyer in East Prussia . He was a university professor and cultural politician in Estonia . He sat in the Prussian House of Representatives , in the Constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation and in the Reichstag (German Empire) .

Life

Schmalz studied at the Albertus University in Königsberg and was one of the founders of the Corps Littuania in 1829 . He was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1834 Schmalz entered Russian service and became a professor of agriculture at the University of Dorpat . He was also a journalist and author . From 1835 he worked with Carl Friedrich von der Borg as editor of a cultural magazine for Russian Germans , the Refraktor, which appears in Dorpat . In this way he contributed politically and literarily to the continued existence of the German-Baltic culture under the pressure of the beginning Russification . From 1845 he was editor of the St. Petersburg newspaper. He was appointed court councilor by the Russian tsar. He inherited the Kussen estate near Pillkallen, which he managed from around 1850. From 1853 until his death in 1879 he was district administrator for the Pillkallen district .

From 1852 until his resignation on October 7, 1853 and from 1855 to 1858, Schmalz was a member of the Gumbinnen 2 constituency in the Prussian House of Representatives . His parliamentary group membership in the 3rd legislative period has not been passed down. In the 4th legislative period he belonged to the Büchtemann parliamentary group. The Reichstag constituency of Gumbinnen 2 elected him to the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation in 1867 . For the same constituency he came to the Reichstag (German Empire) in the Reichstag election in 1878 .

See also

• List of members of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation
• List of Corps students in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and in the Customs Parliament
• List of corps students in the Prussian House of Representatives
• List of members of the Reichstag of the German Empire (4th electoral term)

literature

• Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 225.
• Bärbel Holtz (edit.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. 4 / II. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Acta Borussica . New episode. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11827-0 , p. 640. ( Online ; PDF 1.9 MB).

Web links

• Literature magazine Der Refraktor 1837, project EEVA
• EEVA, database and authors of older literature in Estonia
• Hermann Schmalz in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 140/14.
2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann (edit.): Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1989, short biography p. 463 (photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, volume 2)
3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives . Verlag Carl Heymann, 2nd edition, Berlin 1904, p. 8f .; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag . Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 5f.