Karl Twesten

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Karl Twesten. Graphic by Hermann Scherenberg, (detail).

Karl Twesten (born April 22, 1820 in Kiel , † October 14, 1870 in Berlin ) was a German politician and lawyer .

Life

Johann Friedrich Karl Twesten was the second child and only son of the theologian August Twesten and his wife Tine geb. Behrens. He studied law at the universities in Berlin and Heidelberg . After various positions at courts, he became a city judge in Berlin in 1855.

In 1861 he published the political text What can still save us , in which he called the reactionary Prussian General Edwin von Manteuffel an "ominous man in an ominous position". Manteuffel then challenged him to a duel in which Twesten was wounded (right arm shot through). In the same year he and others founded the German Progressive Party , for which he had sat in the Prussian House of Representatives since 1862 . Because of defamatory insults in one of his parliamentary speeches, the then sensational "Twesten trial" took place in 1866, which ultimately led to Twestens resigning from the judicial service.

Although he was initially in a constitutional conflict with King Wilhelm I and Otto von Bismarck's gap theory , in 1866 he supported the indemnity bill and defended the Austro-Prussian War . In the same year he founded the National Liberal Group in the House of Representatives with Eduard Lasker and Hans Victor von Unruh . In 1867 he became a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation . As a member of parliament, he represented the constituency of Breslau 11 ( Reichenbach - Neurode ) until his death .

Grave in the hereditary burial test in the Trinity Cemetery I

Karl Twesten died in Berlin in 1870 at the age of 50. The burial took place in the hereditary burial of the Twesten family in the Trinity Cemetery I in front of the Hallesches Tor . His parents August (1789–1876) and Catharina Amalia Margarethe Twesten, née. Behrens (1795–1878) later found their final resting place there. On the six-axis plastered brick grave wall, marble tablets remind of the family members buried here.

Works

  • What We Care About (1859)
  • Schiller in his relationship to science (1863)
  • The Prussian State of Officials (1866)
  • The time of Ludwig XIV: Lecture given in the Berlin Craftsmen Association . Lüderitz, Berlin 1871 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Küpper: August Wilhelm Heffter (1796-1880). A Prussian criminalist and universal lawyer in the 19th century. In: Festschrift 200 Years of the Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Past, present and future. Edited by Stefan Grundmann u. a. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010 ISBN 9783899496291 , pp. 179–204, pp. 187–189 ( online preview at Google Books ). - Cf. also Adalbert Hess: The parliament that Bismarck opposed. On the politics and social composition of the Prussian House of Representatives during the conflict period (1862–1866). Springer, Wiesbaden 1964 ISBN 978-3-322-96058-0 , p. 118 f. No. 13 ( online preview at Google Books).
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 331, short biography p. 478–479.
  3. ^ 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. 73.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 228.

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personal data
SURNAME Twesten, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Twesten, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1870
Place of death Berlin