Ludwig Haberkorn

This article deals with the Saxon politician. For the Hessian politician of the same name, see Ludwig Haberkorn (Politiker, 1810)

Ludwig Haberkorn (1811–1901)

Daniel Ferdinand Ludwig Haberkorn (born September 2, 1811 in Kamenz , † April 6, 1901 in Zittau ) was a German conservative politician. He was a member of the Saxon state parliament and long-standing President of the Second Chamber.

Live and act

The son of a bookbinder and sexton Ferdinand Daniel Ludwig Haberkorn (1782-1824) in Kamenz studied at the Universities of Halle (1830) and Leipzig (1831-1833) Jura . During his studies he became a member of the old Leipzig fraternity in 1831 . He then returned to Kamenz and took up a position as a deputy actuary at the city court until he was able to settle down as a lawyer in 1838. He later also held the post of patrimonial director.

In 1846 Haberkorn was elected to the city council of Kamenz. In the summer of 1849 he received a mandate in the Saxon state parliament and was elected as a member of the democratic fatherland associations to the office of vice-president of the Second Chamber. He was also a member of the restituted state parliament, which was convened in the summer of 1850. During the political reaction phase between 1850 and 1866, Haberkorn was one of the few Saxon state members of the liberal opposition. He remained a member of Chamber II for 44 years, but later switched to the conservative camp.

In Kamenz he was elected mayor in 1856 , but shortly afterwards changed to the mayor's office of Zittau, which he held until his resignation in 1886. At the Landtag in 1859 he was elected President of the Second Chamber after Karl Heinrich Haase, who was over 70 years old, waived his mandate . He belonged to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation as a member of the conservative parliamentary group or as a non-parliamentary group from February to August 1867. The change in electoral law in 1868 shifted the balance of power in the Lower House of Saxony to such an extent that the liberal camp had a majority in parliament. In view of this new constellation, Haberkorn was no longer able to hold onto the presidency. His successor was Wilhelm Schaffrath . After the National Liberals distanced themselves more from the left-wing liberals in view of the election success of the Saxon Social Democrats in the Reichstag elections in 1874 , they abstained from voting in the election of the President of the Second Landtag Chamber at the beginning of the Landtag in 1875/76. As a conservative candidate, Haberkorn benefited from this political constellation and was re-elected to office. He held it until the state parliament in 1889/90, before Karl Gustav Ackermann succeeded him in 1891. From 1873 to 1883 Haberkorn was a member of the parliamentary committee for the administration of the national debt. In the state parliament of 1891/92 he still took part as a simple member. On June 30, 1893, he voluntarily resigned his mandate for reasons of age.

In Zittau he was a member of the Freemason Lodge Friedrich August to the three circles .

Haberkorn monument in Zittau

Ludwig Haberkorn

Works

• The constitutional charter of the Kingdom of Saxony of September 4, 1831 otherwise and now, together with information about the time and duration of the state parliaments and their direction. Dresden 1881

Honors

Haberkorn received honorary citizenship from Kamenz in 1856 and from Zittau in 1871. The city of Zittau also honored him with a memorial located on Haberkornplatz. In 1882 he was given the title of Dr. jur. hc awarded.

He was honored by the members of the Second Chamber in 1885/86 by donating an oil painting and in 1886 with a life-size portrait in the directorate of the state parliament. In 1887 he was appointed to a Privy Council .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 . P. 407.
• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 . Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2001, p. 70f.
• Josef Matzerath: Haberkorn, Daniel Ferdinand Ludwig . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder: Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical manual . Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , ( photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties 5), p. 384f.
• Obituary for go. Rath Dr. jur. Daniel Ferdinand Ludwig Haberkorn . In: New Lusatian Magazine (NLM). Volume 77, 1901, ISSN  1439-2712 , pp. 303f. ( Digitized version )

Web links

• Ludwig Haberkorn in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Literature by and about Ludwig Haberkorn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Daniel_Ferdinand_Ludwig_Haberkorn ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the Upper Lusatia Biographical Lexicon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Andreas Neemann: Landtag and politics in the reaction time. Saxony 1849/50 to 1866 (contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties in Germany, volume 126), Düsseldorf 2000.