Jakob Lindau

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Jakob Lindau

Jakob Lindau (born May 10, 1833 in Heidelberg ; † August 15, 1898 there ) was a member of the Reichstag and a Catholic leader in Baden.

Life

Lindau came from a Catholic family. He had to abandon his desire to begin engineering studies in order to complete a commercial training in Heidelberg . In 1854 he joined his father's company, which he took over after his father's death in 1859.

With Dr. Leopold Fischer and Philibert Graf von Graimberg he tried to strengthen the Catholic faith and its influence. These efforts led to the founding of the Pfälzer Bote , the first Catholic newspaper in Baden, and the Catholic People's Party (1865), a forerunner of the Center Party in Baden . In addition, Lindau was one of the initiators of the so-called Wandering Casinos in Baden in 1865 and acted as the leader of such a Catholic rally, which fell victim to violence organized in Mannheim on February 23 of that year, which went down in local history under the name Mannheimer Kasinosturm . From 1867 to 1870 Lindau had a seat in the second chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly for the A41 constituency (Wertheim) and from 1875 to 1876 for the 40 constituency (Tauberbischofsheim). From 1868 to 1870 he was a member of the customs parliament as a member of the Baden 8 constituency ( Rastatt , Bühl , Baden-Baden ) .

In 1871/72 Jakob Lindau supported the founding of the Palatia Heidelberg in the KV and in 1873 also became a member of this association.

Because of his strong political commitment, he was convicted twice. Among other things, he received a four-month prison sentence.

In 1871 Lindau was a member of the Reichstag . He resigned his mandate on April 14, 1871. In 1890 he retired into private life due to a serious illness.

His services for the Catholic Church are from Pope Pius IX. was honored with the award of the Order of Pius .

literature

  • Berger & Aurand: Weiland Bursch zu Heidelberg. Heidelberg 1986
  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 3, 1900, Reimer, Berlin
  • Franz Dor: Jakob Lindau. A Baden politician and folk man portrayed in his life and work. With a foreword by Theodor Wacker. 3rd edition Herder, Freiburg 1913
  • Wilhelm Kosch : Catholic Germany. Volume 2, Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1937
  • Wilhelm Kosch, continued by Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Volume 1, Francke, Bern [et al.] 1963.
  • Friedrich von Weech and A. Krieger (eds.): Badische biographies . Volume 5, Bassermann [among others], Heidelberg [among others] 1906

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the German Reichstag. I. legislative period, I. session 1871. Volume 1, Berlin 1871, p. XIX ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Lindau, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1898
Place of death Heidelberg