Markus Pflüger
Markus Pflüger (born May 8, 1824 in Lörrach ; † September 5, 1907 there ) was a German revolutionary and politician, pioneer for the Baden revolutionary Gustav Struve . From 1871 to 1903 he was a member of the Baden Landtag and from 1874 to 1898 of the German Reichstag, first for the National Liberal Party and later for the German Liberal Party .
Life
He was the first-born child of the Schopfheim master butcher and Hirschwirt from Lörrach, Markus Pflüger, and the Kandern butcher's daughter Elisabetha Senn. After attending the Lörracher Pedagogy on Basler Strasse, the forerunner of the Hebel-Gymnasium , several years of teaching and traveling in France, England and Switzerland followed. When he returned home, he ran the “Hirschen”, which at the time was the largest inn in Lörrach and also the local post office . Today the Karstadt department store is located there. On January 22nd, 1850 he married the Grenzach landlord's daughter Johanna Magdalena Müller.
Pflüger was a left-wing liberal liberal . Its political significance is that the then only 24-year-old as chairman of the Committee for the arming of the people as well as the captain of the first Fähnlein these vigilantes much the ground prepared for the initial success of the Republican uprising in Loerrach under Gustav Struve in the wake of the March revolution in Grand Duchy of Baden ( Struve Putsch ). On September 21, 1848, Struve proclaimed a republic from the balcony of the Loerrach town hall . At the behest of Struve, plaques with the inscription “German Republic” were then attached to the office building and also to Pflüger's post office. After the suppression of the Baden revolution, Markus Pflüger, like Struve, had to flee temporarily to the nearby, liberal Switzerland . However, Pflüger did not change his attitude or his political commitment later either. In 1898 he held a celebration in his inn to commemorate the Baden Revolution that had taken place 50 years earlier .
From 1858 to 1903 he was a member of the Lörrach town council, from 1871 to 1903 he was a member of the Baden state parliament. From 1874 to 1898 he was - with one interruption - an additional member of the Reichstag in Berlin. Due to his left-liberal attitude - Pflüger was also a strict opponent of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck - he was attacked in Lörrach and no longer elected in 1887, whereupon he ran for election in the Karlsruhe / Bruchsal constituency in 1890 and 1893 and was elected there. When the German Liberal Party split in 1893, Pflüger joined the Liberal People's Party led by Eugen Richter , which voted against the military plans of Chancellor Leo von Caprivi . The following table shows his party and constituency changes:
| Parliament | Constituency in the Grand Duchy of Baden | Political party | elected |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1874-1877 | Constituency 4: Lörrach , Müllheim | National Liberal Party | Yes |
| 1877-1878 | Constituency 4: Lörrach , Müllheim | National Liberal Party | Yes |
| 1878-1881 | Constituency 4: Lörrach , Müllheim | National Liberal Party | Yes |
| 1881-1884 | Constituency 4: Lörrach , Müllheim | Liberal Association | Yes |
| 1884-1887 | Constituency 4: Lörrach , Müllheim | German Radical Party (DFP) | Yes |
| 1887-1890 | Constituency 4: Lörrach , Müllheim | German Radical Party (DFP) | No |
| 1890-1893 | Constituency 10: Karlsruhe , Bruchsal | German Radical Party (DFP) | Yes |
| 1893-1898 | Constituency 10: Karlsruhe , Bruchsal | German Radical Party (DFP); after its split in 1893 Liberal People's Party (FVp) | Yes |
| 1898 | did not run for office anymore | No |
Pflüger was also active in other areas. Together with other colleagues, he achieved the construction of the Wiesentalbahn , the first privately financed railway line in the Grand Duchy of Baden; the first section to Schopfheim was opened on June 7, 1862. It connected Lörrach to the rail network of the German Empire and thus contributed significantly to the upswing of the city. In Lörrach, Pflüger was also a parish council , co-founder of the volunteer fire brigade and the district hypothekenbank . The oldest social institution in the Lörrach district , a nursing home built in 1877 for disabled, addicted and lonely old people in Schopfheim-Wiechs , was created on the initiative of Markus Pflüger.
Honors
Markus-Pflüger-Strasse in Lörrach and the Markus-Pflüger-Heim nursing home in Wiechs that he initiated and which still exists today are named after him. Since 2010, the city of Lörrach has been awarding the Markus Pflüger Prize at the New Year 's reception . The prize is to be awarded every two years to a maximum of two deserving citizens and consists of a sculpture created by the Lörrach artist Rudolf Scheurer .
See also
When researching the Reichstag database, there is a risk of confusion with the Württemberg Reichstag member Georg Pflüger .
literature
- Friedrich Weill: Markus Pflüger . In: Badische Biographien, IV. Part, (edited by A. Krieger and K. Obser), pp. 504–506 online at the Badische Landesbibliothek
- Helmut Steinsdorfer: Marcus Pflüger (1824–1907): on the 150th birthday of the liberal Baden and German politician from Lörrach . In: Badische Heimat - 55. 1975, pp. 103-108
- Walter Jung: Personalities in the Lörrach district . In: The district of Lörrach . Stuttgart u. a .: Theiss Verlag, 1980.
- Christian M. Vortisch: Markus Pflüger and his methods in Lörrach road construction . In: The Markgräflerland . Schopfheim: Geschichtsverein, 1983, pp. 81-83.
- Eugen Zürcher: Markus Pflüger: in memory of his 150th birthday . In: Our Lörrach . Lörrach-Tumringen: Kropf & Herz, 1974, pp. 161-165.
- Evangelical church register Lörrach, births 1824 and marriages 1850, in: Freiburg State Archives (Badische Standesbücher, inventory L 10, No. 2658 and 2663)
- Willi Adam: A man who stayed true to his mind. In: Badische Zeitung from September 21, 2019 online; accessed on September 23, 2019
- Carola Hoécker: From militant to parliamentarian. Letters from the Reichstag member Marcus Pflüger (1824–1907) , Lindemanns Bibliothek Volume 347, Info Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-96308-064-7
Web links
- Markus Pflüger in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Speech by Markus Pflüger in the Reichstag on the wine tariffs on December 16, 1891
- Speech by Markus Pflüger in the Reichstag on the Tobacco Tax Act on April 13, 1893
- Speeches by Markus Pflüger in the Baden State Parliament in the digital collections of the Baden State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hirschen in Loerrach
- ↑ s. Steinsdorfer p. 106
- ↑ created on the basis of the data by - Ulrich von Alemann, Jens Walther: "The roots of the plural party system in Germany. Anti-democratic pluralism in the German Empire". In: Nils C. Bandelow , Simon Hegelich (eds.): Pluralism-strategies-decisions , Wiesbaden 2011, p. 182 and 189
- ↑ s. List of the Reichstag constituencies of the German Empire
- ↑ see Steinsdorfer p. 107
- ^ Badische Zeitung : Markus Pflüger Prize of the City of Lörrach , June 24, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pflüger, Markus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marcus Pflüger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German revolutionary and politician (DFP, FVp), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Loerrach |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1907 |
| Place of death | Loerrach |