Moritz Mohl

Moritz Mohl (born February 9, 1802 in Stuttgart , † February 18, 1888 in Stuttgart) was a German economist and economic politician.

Life

Mohl studied state economics in Tübingen , then visited the agricultural institute in Hohenheim , became a trainee lawyer in the Ministry of Finance in 1826 , then an assessor at the higher customs administration in Stuttgart and in 1831 an assessor at the tax chamber in Reutlingen. After spending five years in France researching the state of the economy and the school system in that country, he was appointed senior tax council in Stuttgart in 1841.

In 1848 he took part in the sessions of the preliminary parliament , was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly by the constituency of Heidenheim - Aalen , where he belonged to the moderate left, and gave up his job.

He also took part in the rump parliament . In accordance with anti-Semitic efforts that were emerging at the time , he was the only one to call for restrictions on the proposed equality of rights for Jews, as they were a foreign element in the German people. He applied passionately, but without success, for the addition: "The peculiar conditions of the Israelite tribe are the subject of special legislation and can be regulated by the empire." His application was vigorously rejected , especially after Gabriel Riesser's reply .

In all subsequent meetings of the Württemberg estates , Mohl belonged to the extreme left in the Second Chamber until 1887. He was a member of the Customs Parliament and until 1874 of the Reichstag .

He was one of the most ardent supporters of the Greater German Party. His "warning to protect southern Germany from extreme dangers" (Stuttgart 1867) fought the annexation of the southern German states to the North German Confederation ; after 1870 he fought against any expansion of competence in the empire.

In word and writing he was the most active champion of the Protective Customs Party, especially through his reports on the Estates on the Franco-Prussian trade agreement (Stuttgart 1863). He died in Stuttgart on February 18, 1888.

The parents were the Württemberg jurist and politician Benjamin Ferdinand von Mohl (1766-1845) and his wife Louisa Friederica Autenrieth (1776-1843). She was a sister of Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Autenrieth , Chancellor of the University of Tübingen. Mohl's brothers were: Robert von Mohl , Julius Mohl and Hugo von Mohl .

plant

Mohl published numerous pamphlets on issues of the day. He fought u. a. for the franc system as the basis of the German coinage system ( Zur Münzreform , Stuttgart 1867), for the restriction of paper circulating funds ( via banking maneuvers etc. , Stuttgart 1858), for a railway system centralized in the hands of the individual states ( via the draft of a Reich Railway Act , Stuttgart 1874) and for the tobacco monopoly.

literature

Peter Michael Ehrle: Mohl, Moriz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 691 f. ( Digitized version ).
Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 575 .
Otto Trüdinger: Mohl, Moriz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 430-434.
Jörg Westermayer: Politics as a Profession. The parliamentarian Moritz Mohl. 1802–1888 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 111). Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-5204-8 (also dissertation, University of Munich, 1996)
Michael P. Hensle: Mphl, Moritz. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present . Volume 2/2: People L – Z. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24072-0 , pp. 558f.

Web links

Wikisource: Moritz Mohl - Sources and full texts

Moritz Mohl in the database of members of the Reichstag
Moritz von Mohl's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Remarks

↑ Stenographic report on the negotiations of the German constituent national assembly in Frankfurt am Main, ed. by Prof. Franz Wiegand, Volume 3, Leipzig 1848, pp. 1 754 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Mohl, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and economic politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	February 18, 1888
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Stenographic report on the negotiations of the German constituent national assembly in Frankfurt am Main, ed. by Prof. Franz Wiegand, Volume 3, Leipzig 1848, pp. 1 754 ff.