Karl Boost

Karl (Carl) Joseph Adolf Boost (born February 25, 1802 in Sehl ; † January 8, 1877 Poltersdorf ) was a German physician , landowner and member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

Life

Karl Boost was born in 1802 as the son of the doctor (Chirurgius) Carl Joseph Boost. From 1815 Boost first attended the Leininger Gymnasium in Grünstadt and from 1817 the Lyceum in Speyer , which he finished there with the passing of the school-leaving examination. Then he studied from 1818 to 1823 at the University of Bonn Medicine . In 1818 he became a member of the old Bonn fraternity . After his doctorate as Dr. med. he worked as a general practitioner in Cochem, he also managed an outbuilding of the Ebernach monastery, the Reilsbacher Hof.

Political commitment

It is believed that the ideas of the French Revolution passed through the father Carl Joseph Boost to the son Karl. During the revolutionary years of 1848/49 he was elected to the Prussian National Assembly on May 8, 1848 as a representative of the Democrats of the Cochem constituency. There he stood up firmly on the left for the rights and freedoms of the people. In November 1848 he was replaced by Hugo Keiffenheim . He represented the constituencies of Zell, Cochem, Mayen, Simmern and Ahrweiler in the first chamber in Berlin from February 26, 1849 to April 27, 1849. After the end of the reaction time ( reaction era ) he was again politically active as a member of constituency 7 (Koblenz 5) in the Prussian state parliament (Prussian House of Representatives) between 1862 and 1863. He was a member of the German Progressive Party . Subsequently, he decided not to run again. As head of the Progressive Party from 1863 to 1867, he successfully helped the Treis notary Leopold Cornely's candidacy against the liberal and Catholic list.

Family boost

His father Carl Joseph Boost (1769-1853) received a license to practice medicine as a surgeon in Strasbourg in 1807 . He married Theresia Koch and in 1811 acquired the provost's office ( Ebernach monastery ) consisting of a house, a chapel, vineyards and lands from the French J. Jorry, who had managed it as national property since 1807. There he set up the "Grand Orient" Masonic Lodge, which is connected to Paris .

Karl Boost was married to Mathilde Grebel. Both had six children together:

• Mathilde Amalie (born January 26, 1842)
• Karl Josef Matthias (born August 29, 1843)
• Aleander Georg (born March 17, 1843)
• Josef Melchior (born February 12, 1847)
• Mathilde (born April 19, 1849)
• Anna Maria Katharina (born July 2, 1851).

After Karl Boost's death, his daughter and wife of the Sehl-born teacher Johann Franz Gering inherited the entire property. After Mrs. Gering died in 1881, she bequeathed the former Probsteig building in Ebernach to the parish of St. Martin in Cochem with the condition that a hospital be set up there. However, since the parish was unable to do so, the Rhenish Provincial Administration bought the property. This asked the congregation of the Waldbreitbach Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross to take over the management of a sanatorium in Ebernach for mentally handicapped men. On October 12, 1887, care for the disabled began.

literature

• Heinz-Günther Böse (Author) and Alfons Friderichs (Eds.): Boost, Dr. med. Carl , In: “Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District” , Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 55.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 121.

Web links

• Entry on Karl Boost in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reilsbacher courtyard, the Benedictine Abbey Laach, Volume 7 of Bertram Resmini in the Google Book Search
2. ↑ Chronicle of Ebernach Monastery Private property of the Boost family from 1811 to 1881 Retrieved on November 4, 2018