Karl Wilmanns (politician)

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Karl Gustav Heinrich Wilmanns (born February 12, 1835 in Lippstadt ; † November 7, 1898 in Berlin ) was a lawyer and member of the Reichstag ( German Conservative Party ) and the founder of racially motivated anti-Semitism .

Origin and work

Karl Wilmanns came from an old scholarly family in Bremen. He attended the secondary school in Pforta and studied law at the University of Berlin . There he was later city judge and after 1871 district judge. From 1871 to 1874 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the German Conservative Party for the constituency Frankfurt 1 ( Arnswalde - Friedeberg ).

Alongside Franz Perrot, Wilmanns was one of those German parliamentarians who founded the economically motivated racist anti-Semitism in Germany. In his brochure The "Golden" International and the Necessity of a Social Reform Party , a program for the unification of tax and economic reformers , he popularized the thesis that the wealthy Jews supposedly dominating finance would form a " golden international ", no less dangerous than the “black international” of the Catholics or the “red” of the socialists. In doing so, Willmanns tied in with the anti-Semitic conspiracy fantasies of Hermann Goedsche and Osman Bey , which the Jewish world conspiracy in which they believed had identified banking and the press as the most important power resources. To prove it, he presented a list of the Jews who were prominent in banks and newspapers, which he had compiled with the help of the Allgemeine Wohnungs-Anzeiger , Berlin's residential and business directory. He also referred to the commercialization and concentration processes of the press that had started in the last third of the 19th century. The Jews were to blame for them too, he named the banker Gerson von Bleichröder .

With this pamphlet Wilmanns had designed the first program of an anti-Semitic party Wilmanns was also one of the signatories of the so - called anti - Semitic petition, with which influential scholars and politicians called in the years 1880 to 1881 to reverse the legal emancipation of the Jews that had been in effect since 1869 in order to in their view to liberate certain German nation from foreign Jewish rule. They also pushed for the hindering of Jewish immigration and the exclusion of Jews from offices as judges, teachers and other civil servants.

Wilmanns has also published several legal papers on banking as well as commercial and debt law.

family

Karl Wilmann's father, Franz Wilmanns, was a building officer in the Prussian civil service and had temporarily worked under Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The Germanist Wilhelm Wilmanns and the ancient historian Gustav Heinrich Wilmanns were his brothers. The psychiatrist Karl Wilmanns and the chemist Gustav Wilmanns were sons of his brother Franz Rudolph Florenz. The son of his brother Hilmar Franz Günther was the historian and history didactician Ernst Wilmanns . Karl Wilmanns was not married.

literature

  • Massimo Ferrari Zumbini: The Roots of Evil. Founding years of anti-Semitism. From the Bimarck period to Hitler. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-465-03222-5
  • Dieter Fricke : Anti-Semitic Parties 1879–1894 . In: the same (ed.): The bourgeois parties in Germany. Handbook of the history of the bourgeois parties and other bourgeois interest organizations from Vormärz to 1945, Vol. 1, Leipzig 1968, pp. 36–40.

Fonts

  • Wilmanns, Carl: On the reform of the mortgage and subhastation legislation. Contributions to the explanation of Prussian law, commercial and exchange law through theory and practice. Vol. 13, pp. 313-316. Guttentag Berlin 1868. dlib-zs.mpier.mpg.de (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  • Wilmanns, Carl: The landowners' credit need and their remedy by a North German federal mortgage bank. 110 p. 1868. Guttentag Berlin e-pup
  • Wilmanns, Carl: On the reform of the German banks. 56 p. 1872. Vahlen Berlin
  • Wilmanns, Carl: The "golden" International and the need for a social reform party. 5th edition, partly changed. Popular edition. 100 p. 1876. Niendorf Berlin.
  • Wilmanns, Carl: Book of forms for the law, concerning foreclosure in immovable property: from July 13, 1883; issued on official initiative. 32 p. 1883 Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to other information, direct line-up of Peter Gustav Wilmanns ( memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), he died in 1897
  2. ↑ Specht, Fritz / Schwabe, Paul: 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 Berlin: Verlag Carl Heymann, 1904, p. 38
  3. ↑ Massimo Ferrari Zumbini: The Roots of Evil. Founding years of anti-Semitism. From the Bimarck period to Hitler . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 149; Matthew Lange: Golden International. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Volume 3: Concepts, ideologies, theories. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-24074-4 , p. 111 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  4. ↑ John David Seidler: The Conspiracy of the Mass Media. A cultural history from the bookseller plot to the lying press . transcript, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3406-8 , p. 221 f. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  5. ↑ Fricke 1968; P. 149
  6. ↑ anti-Semite petition ; in: German History in Documents and Pictures (DGDB)
  7. ↑ http://www.wilmanns.de/genealogie/wil3.html
  8. ↑ Direct lineage from Peter Gustav Wilmanns ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wilmanns, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilmanns, Karl Gustav Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1898
Place of death Berlin