Julius Faucher

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Julius Faucher (born June 13, 1820 in Berlin , † June 12, 1878 in Rome ) was a journalist and an important German representative of free trade and Manchester liberalism .

biography

Julius Faucher

Faucher's father was a member of the French colony in Berlin. Julius Faucher married Karoline Sommerbrodt in 1845, the daughter of a hat maker from Berlin.

Faucher studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Berlin philosophy . In 1841 he became a member of the Corps Marchia Berlin . He was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1844 Faucher met John Prince-Smith and shortly afterwards they founded the little important Berlin free trade association. In 1848 he became editor of the stock exchange news on the Ostesee (later Ostseezeitung ) in Stettin; this newspaper represented free trade views.

Faucher represented the liberal idea with particular stringency and, among other things, called for the nationalization of security tasks and the abolition of taxes , which made him one of the first (German-speaking) market anarchists .

When revolutions broke out across Europe in 1848 , Faucher took part in uprisings in Stockholm on March 18 and 19 .

In 1850 Faucher became the publisher of the Berliner Abendpost , which was to develop into a free-trade combat paper and to come into conflict with the press law. Soon after, the economic basis for the paper was stripped.

Faucher then went to England, where he worked as a correspondent for various German newspapers. He also became editor of the London Morning Star , a major free trade newspaper, and even temporarily became Richard Cobden's secretary .

In 1861 Faucher returned to Germany, where he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the German Progressive Party that same year . Faucher was a member of the House of Representatives from 1862 to 1866, then again from 1867 to 1870. In 1863 he founded the quarterly journal for economics and cultural history , which was to become the most important medium for German free traders and Manchester liberals.

Faucher was also a member of the "Permanent Deputation" of the Congress of German Economists for several years .

He resigned from the Progressive Party in 1866 and joined the National Liberal Party founded by him and 14 other former members of the Progressive Party and nine former members of the Center Party . The reason for the split was Otto von Bismarck's indemnity bill .

reception

In his memoirs From Twenty to Thirty , Theodor Fontane describes Julius Faucher, with whom he was personally acquainted, first as a “genius”, then as a “pumping and strolling genius”.

The Julius-Faucher-Strasse as in Berlin , Braunschweig , Bremen - Osterholz , Langenhagen and Magdeburg were named after him.

literature

Wikisource: Julius Faucher  - Sources and full texts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 10 , 221
  2. ↑ http://www.mises.org/story/1787
  3. ^ John Henry Mackay, Max Stirner - Leben und Werk , Berlin 1914, p. 197.
  4. ^ Gerhard Eisfeld: The emergence of the liberal parties in Germany , Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Hanover 1969, page 22
  5. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 128 ( handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties  : vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne : Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 603-608.
  6. ↑ From twenty to thirty: Chapter two projekt-gutenberg.org
personal data
SURNAME Faucher, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (free trader and Manchester liberal)
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1878
Place of death Rome