Karl Braun (politician, 1822)

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Karl Braun (Hermann Scherenberg, 1867)

Karl Joseph Wilhelm Braun , called Braun-Wiesbaden ; and Carl Braun (* 20th March 1822 in Hadamar , Duchy of Nassau ; † 14. July 1893 in Freiburg ) was a German politician for the Free Trade began.

education and profession

Karl Braun was the son of the Vice Rector Joseph Braun from Hadamar. He attended the Philippinum Weilburg grammar school from 1836 to 1840 . After graduating from high school, he studied philology and law at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1840 he became active in the Corps Hasso-Nassovia . In 1841 he moved to the Georg August University in Göttingen , where he also joined the Corps Nassovia. 1856 doctorate he became Dr. iur.

He was an author for the Siegener Bürgerblatt and the Mittelrheinische Zeitung .

From 1843 he worked in the administrative service. From 1855 to 1867 Braun was a lawyer (legal procurator ) at the Higher Appeal Court in Wiesbaden . This explains the addition in his surname (Braun-Wiesbaden), which he uses to differentiate between z. B. the Austrian writer Karl Johann Braun (1802-1866) used. From 1867 he worked as a lawyer in Berlin. From 1880 to 1887 he was a lawyer at the Imperial Court in Leipzig . Then he was again a lawyer in Berlin.

Braun was one of the founders of several stock corporations and sat on the supervisory board of the German Union Bank.

Political activity

Leading National Liberals. Above left: Wilhelm Wehrenpfennig , Eduard Lasker , Heinrich von Treitschke , Johannes Miquel ; bottom left: Franz von Roggenbach , Karl Braun, Rudolf Gneist , Ludwig Bamberger

Braun belonged to the assembly of estates from 1849 to 1851 and then to the second chamber of the state parliament of the Duchy of Nassau until 1866 . From 1858 to 1863 he was President of Parliament. He was considered a leading figure in the Nassau Progress Party . In 1862 he joined the German national club . His role in the National Economic Congress was important , the conference president of which he was one year after it was founded in 1858 until the last conference in 1880.

After the annexation of Nassau in 1866, Braun was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1867 to 1879 . He was also a member of the North German Reichstag and from 1871 to 1887 of the German Reichstag , where he acted as one of the leaders of the National Liberal Fraction . From 1867 to 1878 he was a member of the executive committee of the National Liberal Party.

He left the party in 1880 because of the approval of Bismarck's protective tariff policy . He joined the secessionists , whose most prominent members were Ludwig Bamberger and Eugen Richter . In 1873 Braun took over the publication of the Spenersche Zeitung zu Berlin, but it was sold in 1874.

In addition, Braun was director of the Society for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research . He also published economic and constitutional writings.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Braun-Wiesbaden  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 99 , 34.
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 80 , 95.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 82.
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Karl Joseph Wilhelm (full name); Braun-Wiesbaden, Karl; Braun, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Hadamar , Duchy of Nassau
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1893
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau