Joseph Lingens

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Joseph Lingens (1818-1902). Photograph by August Kampf , Aachen. around 1874

Joseph Lingens (born August 10, 1818 in Aachen ; † October 31, 1902 there ) was a German politician . He was a member of the Center Party and a member of the Reichstag .

Life

Lingens was born on August 10, 1818 in Aachen as the son of the cloth manufacturer Peter Josef Lingens. After graduating from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen , he studied law and political science at the universities of Bonn, Berlin and Paris from 1836 . In 1840 Lingens entered the Prussian judicial service at the Aachen regional court, and in 1845 he established himself as a lawyer in Aachen . In 1846 he married the merchant's daughter Barbara Clemens.

Church engagement

Lingens was heavily involved in the church. Since the first Katholikentag in Mainz in 1848, he was a regular participant in the Katholikentag;

He was also a member or founding member of a large number of Catholic associations in Aachen, as well as Commander of the Order of Knights of St. Grave . In addition, his significant initiative, the Campo Santo in the Aachen West Cemetery created where Lingens later found his final resting place.

Political career

From 1852 to 1855 Lingens was a member of the Prussian state parliament (Eupen constituency). From 1856 to 1901 Lingens was a member of the Aachen city council. In the Reichstag of 1871 Lingens was one of the founding members of the center group. In the following Reichstag elections, he always won his mandate in the constituency of Cologne District 5 (Siegkreis - Waldbröl) in the first ballot. After the election in 1898, Lingens was the age president of the Reichstag. It was not until a stroke that he was forced to resign from his position as a member of the Reichstag on October 19, 1901 and resign from all public offices.

His speeches as a member of the Reichstag were primarily aimed at advocating Sunday rest in the military and in state enterprises such as the post office and the railroad.

Awards and honors

  • Pope Pius IX appointed him secret chamberlain in 1871
  • In 1875, the Catholic University of Leuven awarded him an honorary doctorate in law.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Phillips, A. (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections to the constituent and North German Reichstag, to the customs parliament, as well as to the five first legislative periods of the German Reichstag. Berlin: Verlag Louis Gerschel, 1883, p. 100f; For a short biography, see Hirth, Georg (ed.): German Parliament Almanach . 9th edition of May 9, 1871. Berlin: Verlag Franz Duncker, 1871, pp. 221f
  2. ^ 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. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, pp. 175–176.
  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. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 176.

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SURNAME Lingens, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lingens, Josef; Lingens, Peter Joseph; Lingens, Peter Joseph Hubert; Lingens, Peter Joseph Laur. Wilhelm Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1902
Place of death Aachen