Karl Brater

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Karl Brater

Karl Ludwig Theodor Brater (born June 27, 1819 in Ansbach , † October 20, 1869 in Munich ) was a German editor and politician and the founder of the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Life

Brater studied law in Erlangen , Heidelberg and Würzburg . In 1843 he completed the legal exam with the top grade and was appointed to the Bavarian Ministry of Justice. From 1847 he was employed there by the legislative commission. This led to intensive contact with Friedrich (1814–1856) and Theodor Rohmer (1820–1856) and with Johann Caspar Bluntschli (1808–1881) and to his first legal work, The Reform of Inheritance Law in favor of those in need , published in Munich in 1848. He now also worked as a political editor for the Augsburger Abendzeitung . His position in the ministry had become untenable, and so in 1848 he became mayor of Nördlingen . He stayed in this office, supported by the liberal Nördlingen publisher Carl Beck, until the beginning of 1851. Differences with the district government, which belonged to the reactionary party and disapproved of his advocacy of the Frankfurt constitution , ultimately led to his resignation.

From this time on, Brater worked as a publicist and editor. In 1851 he founded the papers for administrative practice , which he headed until 1860. He also wrote several comments on Dollmann's legislation in the Kingdom of Bavaria since Maximilian II , published the Bavarian constitution and wrote a commentary on the Bavarian court system. Due to the more favorable living conditions, he moved to Egern in May 1852 . From 1855 he lived in Munich again. From 1856 he edited the German State Dictionary with Bluntschli , for which he wrote several articles. In 1857 he wrote the three pamphlets Fliegende Blätter from Baiern , in 1858 the political publication Government and People's Representation in Baiern , which was published in Leipzig. In this publication, Brater stood up for the constitutional rights of the people's representation. After their appearance in Nuremberg in 1859, he was elected as a representative of the Liberals in the Chamber of Deputies . He retained this office until his death.

From 1859 he was also editor of the liberal Bavarian weekly ; In the same year he was involved in founding the German National Association and founded the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Here, too, he represented his ideal of the unification of Germany under Prussia's leadership, which attracted the dislike of old Bavarian circles. In 1859 he couldn't find a landlord and had to live in a room above his office. In 1863 he was one of the founders of the Progressive Party in Bavaria and, with his health already very unstable, became the managing director of the Committee of Thirty-Six. Brater died in Munich, where he had traveled to open the state parliament. Obituaries for Brater appeared and a. in the Nördlinger Anzeiger from October 25, 1869, in the Blätter für administrative Praxis No. 23 from 1869 and in the Prussian Yearbooks XXIV, 6.

According to Robert Piloty , he fought "with an energetic will and a clear mind on the side of the good cause"; Johann Kaspar Bluntschli described his life as a "long, ready-to-fight martyrdom for the unification of the German people".

Pauline Brater b. Pfaff

family

Karl Brater married Pauline Damajanti Pfaff (1827–1907), a daughter of Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff , into whose Erlangen household he had access as a child. Since Pauline's brother Hans Ulrich was sub-rector of the vocational school in Nördlingen from 1847, the permanent relationship came about after Brater and Pauline Pfaff met again in Nördlingen. The daughters Anna (1851) and Agnes (1852) emerged from the marriage. After his untimely death, his widow lived in poor conditions. She had already temporarily moved back to Erlangen at the end of the 1850s, where she again looked after brother Hans Ulrich's household while her husband was on a political trip. As a widow again in Erlangen, from 1869 she raised Hans Ulrich's children in addition to her own daughters (he also died early in 1872) and rented rooms to Ferdinand Lindemann , among others .

Honors

In Nördlingen, Karl-Brater-Strasse is a reminder of the city's former mayor.

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Brater  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Mančal: Munich Augsburger evening paper . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
  2. ↑ hsozkult.de
  3. ^ Ferdinand Frensdorff :  Brater, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 261-263.
  4. ^ Karl Georg Christian von Staudt - Mathematical and Biographical Notes (PDF) Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 8, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de
  5. ↑ Karl Brater . Heinrich Kessler. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Brater, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brater, Karl Ludwig Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and politician, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1869
Place of death Munich