Oskar Poensgen

Carl Oskar Poensgen (born February 27, 1873 in Cologne , † November 20, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Live and act

Poensgen came from the Düsseldorf iron and steel industrial family Poensgen . His parents were Ernst August Poensgen (1844–1873), merchant and consul of the Republic of Peru in Cologne, and Emilie Caroline Roezel (1850–1899). After studying law at the Universities of Lausanne, Berlin, Münster and Bonn (1894-1895) as well as the promotion of Dr. jur. he worked as an administrative lawyer, most recently as a Privy Councilor in the Imperial Statistical Office in Berlin. In 1915 he was one of the founders of the United Associations Information Center in Berlin (AVV / = central body of all national associations for journalistic support of war policy). He also wrote a number of state and labor law papers. His publication on the right to vote from 1909 remains remarkable , in which he cites, among other things, the status of the discussion about women's suffrage , which was only introduced in Germany in 1918: “With the general principle that the innate disposition of women does not allow them to exercise empowering political rights, however, there is little to be done. The talents and abilities of women today are so dependent on upbringing and tradition that one could not justify a generally valid sentence from them. It is correct that in the larger cultural nations today women are on average probably not as capable of exercising political rights as men. "

Oskar Poensgen family burial site, Berlin; Miner statue made by the sculptor August Kraus

Oskar Poensgen was married to Alma Grau (* March 16, 1888 - October 24, 1918), daughter of Bernhard Grau (1856-1924), General Director of Stolzenhagen-Kratzewieck near Stettin , since March 2, 1918 . The marriage remained childless. The family grave is located in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

• Communal social policy , two lectures, Krefeld 1902 (with Friedrich Goldschmidt)
• The right to vote to represent the people with special consideration of Prussia , Berlin 1904
• Paris, London and Greater Berlin in their administrative organizations . In: Prussian year books vol. 118 (1904), pp. 396-417
• Young liberal treatises〈Berliner jungliberale (Friedrich) Hammacher-Festschrift〉, Berlin 1904 (with Arthur Dix , Bruno Marwitz , Hjalmar Schacht )
• German world politics and the means to carry it out , Cologne 1907 (with Paul Helbeck)
• The right to vote , Leipzig: Teubner, 1909 (= From nature and spirit world . Vol. 249). ( Google books )
• The collective agreements in the German Reich at the end of 1911–1915 , Berlin 1912–1917
• The economic effects of the war and our duties , Berlin 1914
• The constitutional problem of Belgium , In: The Panther. German monthly for politics and people, Leipzig 1915
• What do the English have against us? , Berlin 1917
• Foreign legislation on professional associations, unification, arbitration and collective bargaining , Berlin 1918 (= Reichsarbeitsblatt special issue 18)

literature

• Edmund Strutz (Ed.): German Gender Book , Vol. 123 (1958), p. 347.

Web link

• Oskar Poensgen, Das Wahlrecht, 1909 - an excerpt from the status of the discussion about women's suffrage in 1909