Karl Hermann Wolf

Karl Hermann Wolf (around 1897)

Karl Hermann Wolf also Carl Hermann Wolf (born January 27, 1862 in Eger , Bohemia ; † June 11, 1941 in Vienna ) was a member of the Bohemian Landtag , member of the Reichsrat (1897), member of the Provisional National Assembly , editor and writer .

Life

After elementary school, Wolf attended high school in Reichenberg , where he founded the Hercynia school leavers' association, graduated as the best high school graduate with "Thoroughly excellent" and demonstrated extraordinary knowledge of ancient Greek . From 1880 he studied philology at the Charles University in Prague , where he co-founded the Ghibellinia fraternity, worked as a journalist, advocated what he believed to be the oppressed Germanism in the Austrian Habsburg monarchy and represented the ideas of the Greater Germans .

Professional background

Wolf was the author of numerous articles in the Deutsche Wacht , the Deutsche Volkszeitung , the Deutsches Volksblatt and chairman of the German National Association in Austria . On October 30, 1880 he founded the Ghibellinia fraternity in Prague with Reichenberger high school graduates . It called itself an academic-technical fraternity because it accepted students from the university and the technical college. Adolf Strachnov, who stayed in Prague from 1879, had prepared the foundation and was the "first speaker".

See also : List of student associations in Prague

In June 1881 he and Campen Kress were arrested in connection with the unrest in Prague. Regardless of this, on July 8, 1881, Wolf became chairman of the reading and speaking hall for German students for three semesters. In a semester opening speech in front of the reading and speech hall of the German students , Wolf coined the sentence "The people are above the dynasty" and caused a commotion in the face of the government representative. Due to an impending lawsuit, he had to break off his studies and fled to Leipzig. There he worked, among other things, on the Spamerschen Konversationslexikon . In Leipzig he became critically ill with meningitis . After his recovery he was employed as a court master and then turned to the newspaper business. After several years as a journalist in Cilli / Lower Styria (now Slovenia), Reichenberg / Bohemia and Vienna, he founded the German National Newspaper in Vienna in 1890 and - with the support of Georg Ritter von Schönerer - the Ostdeutsche Rundschau . This sheet was very popular among the nationally minded German-Austrians.

After his electoral defeat for the leadership of the reading and speech hall for German students , Wolf founded the Germania Reading and Speech Association of German students in Prague in 1892 with the inferior nationally minded students , which existed until 1938. The founding members were mainly students from the fraternities " Teutonia " and "Carolina", in which Wolf was an honorary member.

In the Reichsrat election in 1897 he was elected for the German National Movement ( 9th legislative period ). He, von Schönerer and Anton Pergelt, lodged an objection against the Baden language ordinance of April 5, 1897 . Wolf attacked Kasimir Felix Badeni in the Reichsrat (Austria) sharply. He accused him of "Polish drudgery"; then Badeni asked Wolf for pistols. Badeni was injured by a bullet in the arm in a pistol duel on September 25, 1897. Wolf's political resistance in the Badeni crisis made him the national hero of German Bohemia for a time.

Grave of KH Wolf

After the premature dissolution of the Reichsrat in 1901, re-elected to the Austrian parliament ( 10th legislative period ), Wolf joined the Schönerer Group ( Pan-German Association ). Wolf, Raphael Pacher , Josef Herold and Anton Schalk separated from the Schönerer group in 1902 because of internal party conflicts (in particular about the Los-von-Rom movement ) . They founded the Freialldeutsche Vereinigung (actually Free Association of Pan-German MPs). In 1903 the name was changed to German Radical Party . By 1905, most of the members of the Schönerer group joined the German Radical Party. Wolf was in the Imperial Council election in 1907 ( XI. Legislature ) and the Reich Council Election 1911 ( . XII legislature ) re-elected in the Vienna parliament. Wolf sat on the board of the German National Association , founded in 1909 , in which most of the German national elected officials had come together.

Others

His walking difficulties can be traced back to the infection by measles - in the first year of life. His honorary grave is located in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Fonts

• Iro's German Volkischer Zeitweiser .. to the year ... [From 1892] German national calendar (Zeitweiser). Edited and directed by Carl Martin Iro and Karl Hermann Wolf.- [From 1894 udT:] German National Pocket Mark Calendar (Zeitweiser) .- [From 1896 udT:] Deutschvolklicher Taschenmerk-Zeitweiser.- [From 1900 udT:] Deutschvölkischer Taschenmerk - Zeitweiser.
• Worker protection and ten hour day . Speeches by the MP KH Wolf at the sessions of the House of Representatives on December 7th and 13th, 1899 to justify his urgency request, regarding the bringing about of an arbitration award in the suspension of work in Zwickau. Vienna: Publication of the Ostdeutsche Rundschau, 1900.
• Radical German Yearbook with Zeitweiser for .... , Vienna, published annually from 1911 onwards

literature

• Horst Grimm, Leo Besser-Walzel: The Corporations: Handbook on history, dates, facts, people . Umschau-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-524-69059-9 .
• Clemens Weber: Karl Hermann Wolf (1862-1941) . Unprinted dissertation, University of Vienna, 1975.
• Harald Lönnecker : "... voluntarily never to leave here ..." The Prague German student body 1867-1945. Cologne 2008 (= treatises on student and higher education, volume 16).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 366-368.

Web links

• Karl Hermann Wolf on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ portafontium.eu - Baptismal Register Eger (Cheb), Böhmen, 1861–1866, page 37, 5th line