Karl Mayer (politician, 1819)

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Karl Mayer

Karl Friedrich Mayer (born September 9, 1819 in Esslingen , † October 14, 1889 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Karl Mayer first attended the Latin school in Waiblingen and then the grammar school in Heilbronn and Stuttgart before studying law in Tübingen from 1837 to 1843 . There he joined the Germania Tübingen fraternity in 1837 . From 1844 to 1845 he worked at the courts in Waiblingen and Ulm before retiring from civil service to take part in a sheet metal factory in Esslingen. In the revolutionary year of 1848 he was a member of the state committee of the patriotic associations in Württemberg . In 1849 he was commissioner of the imperial government in BadenSeekreis and therefore received proceedings against him for high treason . He fled to Switzerland with his family in 1849 and was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison in 1852 . First he was a teacher at a boys' institution in Bern until 1852 and then ran a watch and jewelry store in Neuchâtel until 1863 . Since his prison sentence was waived by amnesty in 1863, Mayer was able to return to Stuttgart, where he was editor-in-chief of the Observer until 1870 . Mayer was an opponent of the establishment of an empire under the leadership of Prussia, which was emerging in these years. In 1864 he founded the Württemberg People's Party together with Julius Haußmann and Ludwig Pfau . He appeared as the leading speaker of the Württemberg democrats in public meetings against the emerging small German solution .

politics

At the age of 29, Mayer was offered a candidacy for the Frankfurt National Assembly, but he contented himself with the role of substitute. Only in the last weeks of parliament (from June 6 to 18, 1849) did he move up as a member of parliament. During this time, the National Assembly was already meeting as a rump parliament in Stuttgart.

From 1868 to 1870 he sat for Besigheim and from 1876 to 1882 for Esslingen as a member of the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament . From 1881 to 1887 he was a member of the constituency of Württemberg 12 ( Gerabronn , Crailsheim , Mergentheim , Künzelsau ), i.e. the four northernmost Württemberg upper offices, in the Reichstag . Mayer was extremely popular as a politician in his native Württemberg and was the author of numerous political articles, as well as novels and plays.

family

Mayer was the son of the Württemberg lawyer and parliamentarian Karl Friedrich Hartmann Mayer (1786–1870) and Friedericke born. Drück (1792–1844) and had six siblings. In 1844 he married Bertha Deffner, a daughter of the Esslingen metal goods manufacturer Carl Deffner . Since 1848 Mayer was married to Mathilde Emilie Zenneck (1822-1901) for the second time and had five children from her, including his son Ludwig Mayer (1851-1892), who was the director of the royal Württemberg antiquities collection. Mayer was Protestant.

literature

  • Hartwig Brandt:  Mayer, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 531 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 556 .
  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical handbook of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and the political parties. Volume 8). Droste, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-7700-5193-9 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 64-65.
  • Wilhelm Kosch , continued by Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Volume 1. Francke, Bern [et al.] 1963.
  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 7, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1998.
  • Hans Peter Müller: Carl Mayer (1819–1889) - a Württemberg opponent of Bismarck. 1848, exile, democratic party leader and parliamentarian. Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series B, Research, Volume 200. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 244.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, Karl Friedrich; Mayer, Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (VP, DtVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1889
Place of death Stuttgart