Karl Trimborn

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Karl Trimborn
Statue of Karl Trimborn on the Cologne town hall tower . Right: Mathilde von Mevissen
Karl Trimborn's grave in Unkel

Karl Trimborn , also Carl Trimborn, (born December 2, 1854 in Cologne , † July 25, 1921 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and politician ( center ).

Life and work

After graduating from the Apostle High School in Cologne in 1873, Trimborn first studied history and philosophy in Leipzig . Here he founded the Catholic student union Teutonia-Leipzig in KV together with Adolf Gröber . From the winter semester 1874/75 he studied law in Munich and Strasbourg and became a member of the K.St.V. Ottonia Munich and Frankonia-Strasbourg . After his traineeship exams in 1877 and assessor exams in 1882, he settled as a lawyer in Cologne.

When the Volksverein for Catholic Germany was founded in 1890 , Trimborn was initially its second chairman, and from 1914 first chairman. Among other things, he was also a board member of the Association for Social Colonization of Germany , founded in 1910 , which wanted to reclaim wasteland by the unemployed.

In 1904 Trimborn was President of the General Assembly of the Catholic Associations in Germany in Osnabrück.

During the First World War he was employed in the German civil administration for Belgium, first in Verviers and later until August 1917 as general advisor for education in Brussels .

Trimborn probably owed this commitment to his long-standing relationship with the Kingdom of Belgium. Because in 1884, at the age of 30, he married 22-year-old Jeanne Mali (born in Verviers / Belgium on February 12, 1862, died in Cologne on August 2, 1919), daughter of a Belgian cloth manufacturer in the textile town of Verviers. This later played an important role in the early Catholic women's movement.

"When I recommended Karl Trimborn to be the director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum as a successor to Hagelstange long years ago , but he was unlucky enough to be a Protestant , he suddenly said to me," You will probably ask for us to be a Protestant archbishop to get." He was famous for his speeches and had the weirdest eye that has ever looked at you. He was one of those comedians - if you can use this miserably compromised word to him - who never laugh themselves, but rather utter the most outrageous speeches in an absolute pince-sans-rire manner. "

- Hermann von Wedderkop , The Book of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn. Piper, Munich 1928. p. 71.

Political party

Karl Trimborn succeeded Adolf Gröber as chairman of the center in 1919 (until 1920) . After the First World War, Trimborn, like his party friend, the then Mayor of Cologne Konrad Adenauer , was a supporter of a Rhenish-Westphalian Republic within the German Empire (“Lot of Prussia”).

In the political biography of Wilhelm Marx , the later Chancellor remembers the situation on the evening of December 4, 1918. The Cologne Center Party had invited to a large rally in the Gürzenich , to which over 5,000 people had appeared. Trimborn appeared together with Marx as a speaker, whereby Marx did not want to comment on the " separatist side views". In contrast to the parallel event at Trimborn, at which a resolution was adopted “with tremendous enthusiasm” calling for an “independent Rhenish-Westphalian Republic belonging to the German Empire”. As a result of the further policy of the Center Party and the official announcements of “maintaining the unity of the Reich”, the movement within the party slowly ebbed. On February 2, 1920, the party finally distanced itself completely from "all supporters of separatist endeavors". During the occupation of the Ruhr, another attempt was made to proclaim an independent Rhenish Republic .

MP

Trimborn was a city councilor in Cologne from 1894 to 1913 . He belonged to the Reichstag of the Empire and the Prussian House of Representatives from 1896 to 1918. Initially elected for the constituency of Cologne 1 (City of Cologne), he represented the constituency of Cologne 5 ( Sieg - Waldbröl ) from 1912 .

He sat 1919 /20 in the Weimar National Assembly and was the successor of Adolf Gröber after his death group chairman of his party. He was a member of the National Assembly's “Committee for the Preliminary Consultation of the Draft Constitution for the German Reich”. Then he was again a member of the Reichstag until his death . In 1918 he was elected to the state constitutional assembly of Prussia.

Public offices

In 1918, Trimborn was State Secretary for a short time in the Reich Office of the Interior in the last cabinet of the Empire, Prince Max von Baden .

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Trimborn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich von Hehl: Wilhelm Marx 1863-1946 - A political biography. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1987, ISBN 3-7867-1323-5 .
  2. ^ 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. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Trimborn, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trimborn, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1921
Place of death Bonn