Jacques Preiss

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Jacques Preiß (born November 9, 1859 in Reichenweier , † March 7, 1916 in Munich ) was a lawyer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Preiss attended high school in Colmar and the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg . From 1886 he was a lawyer in Colmar and from 1897 a member of the district assembly of Upper Alsace . Between 1903 and 1907 he was also a member of the Alsace-Lorraine regional committee .

From 1893 to 1912 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen 3 ( Kolmar ). He initially came from the ranks of the Alsace-Lorraine "protestors" and then in 1894 joined the newly founded liberal Alsace-Lorraine People's Party. Although himself a staunch Protestant, he increasingly represented positions of political Catholicism (lifting of the Jesuit ban, introduction of denominational schools), so that he was expelled from his party. In the Reichstag elections in 1898 , 1903 and 1907 he was supported by the politically organized Catholics (from 1906 Alsace-Lorraine Center Party ). In return, he tried to persuade Protestant voters to elect Catholic candidates in other constituencies as part of an electoral agreement.

He was deported during the First World War and died in Munich in 1916.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the individual elections see 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. 1511-1515.

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personal data
SURNAME Preiss, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Price, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German lawyer and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenweier
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1916
Place of death Munich