Paul Forster

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Artur Paul Förster (born November 14, 1844 in Delitzsch ; † December 31, 1925 in Berlin ) was, like his brother Bernhard Förster , an anti-Semitic publicist and politician in the German Empire .

" Berlin Movement ": Middle Otto Glagau ; clockwise Adolf König , Bernhard Förster , Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg , Theodor Fritsch , Paul Förster and Otto Böckel , around 1880

Life

Paul Förster was born the son of a pastor. Of his two older brothers, Theodor Förster became superintendent in Naumburg and Halle as well as a professor at the University of Halle and Bernhard Förster a high school teacher and political agitator.

Förster studied in Göttingen and Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1873 and then worked as a high school teacher in Berlin. He appeared as an agitator in the Berlin movement and was a co-initiator of the anti-Semite petition 1880/81, which called for the withdrawal of equality laws for Jews. From 1889 to 1907 he ran for various anti-Semitic groups for the Reichstag. In the Reichstag election in 1893, he won one of the four seats of the German Social Party by by-election alongside Liebermann von Sonnenberg , Adolf König and Hans Leuss . Until 1898 he was a member of the DSP or the German Social Reform Party .

Förster was the founder and chairman of the German People's Federation , which, however, had no influence on politics, and chairman of the International Association for Combating Scientific Animal Torture (Association against Vivisection ) based in Dresden.

Works

  • Our German social principles and demands. Lecture given at the German Social Party Congress in Breslau. With the program of the German social party, Germanicus Verlag, Leipzig 1892 (collection of German social pamphlets 4)
  • How do we stand - how do we win? : Speech by the Reichstag member Prof. Dr. Paul Ranger, held in support of the "Anti-Semitic Association of North Germany" on the second Norddeutsche Antisemitentage ... 1893 ... Berlin ... . Anti-Semitic Association for Northern Germany, Berlin 1893
  • Remember that you are a German! German social! One for all! All for one! . Berger, Leipzig 1900
  • Hans von Mosch : The German parties before the judge's seat of Germania. Dramatic festival to celebrate the 2nd foundation festival of the Deutsch-Socialen Verein zu Breslau. With a foreword by Paul Förster . Breslau undated
  • Forward and through! A war cry . 2nd probably edition Gsellius, Berlin 1914
  • The Ahlwardt case in public opinion and in the light of truth. A polemic. Third change and an afterword about the "Judengunten" trial, presumably edition by GA Dewald, Berlin 1893

literature

  • Miriam Zerbel: Animal Welfare in the Empire. A contribution to the history of associations. Lang, Frankfurt 1993, ISBN 363145869X (series: Munich studies on modern and recent history, volume 4)
  • Daniela Kraus: Förster, Paul , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/1, 2009, p. 238f.

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personal data
SURNAME Forester, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Förster, Paul Artur (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Delitzsch
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1925
Place of death Berlin