Karl Bachem

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Karl Josef Emil Bachem (born September 22, 1858 in Cologne , † December 11, 1945 in Burgsteinfurt ) was a German lawyer and politician of the German Center Party .

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Karl Bachem was the son of the Cologne publisher Joseph Bachem (1821-1893) and his wife Katharina geb. Sword (1831-1921). The father ran the JP Bachem publishing house in which the Kölnische Volkszeitung , a leading daily newspaper for German Catholics, appeared. After graduating from high school in 1876, Karl Bachem studied law in Strasbourg and Berlin, as a student he became an active member of the Catholic student associations K.St.V. Frankonia-Strasbourg and K.St.V. Askania-Burgundia Berlin in the KV , to which he remained loyal throughout his life.

After the two state examinations in law, doctorate in 1880 and military service, he settled in Cologne in 1887 as a lawyer. Since he worked intensively in the Center Party and the Volksverein for Catholic Germany , he was elected in Krefeld in 1890 as a Center Member of the Reichstag of the German Empire . At the time, at the age of 32, he was the youngest member of the Reichstag; in 1893 he also became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , to which he belonged until 1904. Karl Bachem was significantly involved in the drafting of the new Civil Code , which came into force in 1900, and was the center's contact to the Vatican, especially for the new marriage and family law of the Civil Code.

In the Center Party, Bachem belonged to the so-called reform wing and expressly advocated an interdenominational party. As president of the 44th Katholikentag in Landshut in 1897, he asked the Catholics to leave their ghetto.

From 1906 Bachem was no longer a member of parliament and withdrew from active politics. From 1915 to 1920 he was an editor at the Kölnische Volkszeitung . From 1918 he worked on his life's work, the history of the Center Party, the 9th and last volume of which appeared in 1932. According to the historian Rudolf Morsey (1966), this history of the Center is “in parts the best representation of domestic political relationships in Wilhelmine Germany.” For the history of the Center Party, it is “indispensable to this day”, judged the Mainz historians Linsenmann and Raasch in 2015.

Karl Bachem was married to Katharina Roeckerath, daughter of the center politician and entrepreneur Peter Joseph Roeckerath , about whom he also wrote a biography. After her death, he married Tilla Du Mont from the publishing family of the same name in 1908 . The central politician and publisher Julius Bachem was his cousin.

Publications

  • The difference between the ford of Roman law and theft according to the German Reich Penal Code, especially in their relationship to the system of private law (dissertation University of Göttingen). JP Bachem, Cologne 1880 ( digitized version ).
  • Josef Bachem. His family and the JP Bachem company in Cologne. The Rheinische and the Deutsche Volkshalle. The Kölnische Blätter and the Kölnische Volkszeitung. At the same time an attempt at the history of the Catholic press and a contribution to the development of the Catholic movement in Germany. 2 volumes. Cologne 1912/1938 ( digitized volume 1 , volume 2 ).
  • Center Party Politics and History. Cologne 1918.
  • Prehistory, history and politics of the German Center Party. 9 volumes. Cologne 1927–1932.
  • Hans-Ulrich Wiese (ed.): Peter Joseph Roeckerath and St. Agnes . A biography by Carl Bachem (1906) and an article about Carl Rüdell . Marzellen-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-937795-05-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Kühne: Handbook of the 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. 747-750.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Mann et al. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties . Volume 3). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 51.
  3. ^ R. Morsey, Die Deutsche Zentrumspartei 1917–1923, 1966, p. 17.
  4. ^ Andreas Linsenmann / Markus Raasch (eds.), The Center Party in the Empire. Balance sheet and perspectives. Münster 2015. p. 7.

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SURNAME Bachem, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachem, Carl Joseph Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1945
Place of death Burgsteinfurt