Karl Vollrath

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Karl Vollrath

Karl Vollrath (born April 16, 1857 in Templin , † October 20, 1915 in Berlin ) was a journalist and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Vollrath attended high school in Prenzlau until 1877 and then studied philosophy and art history in Berlin and Paris . He was in 1877 founder of the fraternity Prenzlauer evening , the later fraternity Primislavia Berlin , which he also belonged.

He began working as an editor in the spring of 1881 for the Berliner Tageblatt . In the autumn of the same year he switched to the Breslauer Zeitung . Vollrath worked there as a political editor and as an art and theater critic. During this time he was a member of the Wroclaw City Council . Vollrath belonged to the German Liberal Party and represented it from 1890 to 1893 as a member of the Reichstag for constituency 7 ( district of Breslau / Breslau-West).

From 1892, until his death, he was editor-in-chief of the Berliner Volks-Zeitung for 23 years . Vollrath was a founding member of the German Society for Combating Venereal Diseases .

Karl Vollrath died of a stroke on October 20, 1915 at the age of 58 in Berlin . He was buried in Cemetery II of the Sophiengemeinde Berlin . The grave has not been preserved.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 170-171.

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. 70.
  2. ^ Ernst Heilborn (Ed.): The literary echo . Monthly for lovers of literature. F. Fontane and Company, 1915, p. 259.
  3. ^ Lutz Sauerteig: Illness, Sexuality, Society: Venereal Diseases and Health Policy in Germany in the 19th and Early 20th Century. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999, p. 522.
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 49.

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personal data
SURNAME Vollrath, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and politician (DFP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Templin
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1915
Place of death Berlin