Paul Pfizer

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Portrait of Paul Pfizer.
Right on the pillar: Paul Pfizer. Lithograph by Gustav Renz .
Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Paul Achatius Pfizer , from 1864 from Pfizer , (born September 12, 1801 in Stuttgart , † July 30, 1867 in Tübingen ) was a Württemberg politician, journalist, lawyer and philosopher.

biography

Paul Pfizer attended upper secondary school in Stuttgart from 1807 to 1819. Afterwards he studied law in Tübingen , but also heard philosophical and scientific lectures. In 1819 he joined the Old Germania Tübingen fraternity . After passing the 1st higher judicial service examination, he was secretary in the Württemberg Department of the Interior from 1823 to 1826. In 1826 he passed the second service examination and was then judicial assessor or senior judicial assessor at the court in Tübingen. In 1831 he resigned from the judicial service and then worked as a writer and lawyer in Stuttgart. In 1846 he decided to accept a job as an assistant to the Stuttgart City School. From March 9th to August 13th, 1848 he was State Councilor and Head of the Department of Churches and Schools (comparable to today's Ministry of Culture) of the Württemberg government Römer . From 1851 to 1858 Pfizer worked as a legal advisor at the court in Tübingen, and in 1858 he retired for health reasons.

politics

On April 30, 1832, he took part in the protest meeting of the elected representatives in Bad Boll, he was a co-signer of the resolution for the early convocation of the state parliament. In 1833 he was elected to the Württemberg state parliament in the Tübingen constituency, to which he belonged until 1838. There he became, together with Ludwig Uhland , one of the spokesmen for the liberal opposition.

In 1848 Pfizer was a member of the pre-parliament and was then a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Honor, ennoblement

Works (selection)

Pfizer's most important political pamphlet was his "Correspondence between Two Germans" from the spring of 1831. In it he called for the unification of the German states under the leadership of Prussia and excluding Austria . This publication led to his dismissal from civil service.

  • Correspondence between two Germans , 1831 (digital copies: first edition , 2nd edition 1832 ).
  • Thoughts on the goal and the task of German liberalism . Tübingen 1832
  • Political freedom and nationality , 1832, in: Georg Küntzel (Ed.): Paul Achatius Pfizer, Political essays and letters , Stuttgart 1924, p. 2 f.
  • About the constitutional relationship of Württemberg to the German Confederation. A contribution to the appreciation of the latest federal resolutions . Strasbourg 1832
  • About the development of public law in Germany through the Federal Constitution , 1835 ( digitized version ).
  • The right of tax approval according to the principles of the Württemberg constitution. With regard to conflicting provisions of the German Confederation . Stuttgart 1836
  • Thoughts on Law, State and Church , 2 volumes. Stuttgart 1842 (digital copies part 1 , part 2 ).
  • On the German constitutional question . Stuttgart 1862

literature

  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 . Düsseldorf: Droste-Verlag, 1998, p. 260 f. ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 314 f.
  • Christian Kennert: The world of thoughts of Paul Achatius Pfizer. A study of the thinking of German early liberalism . Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1986. ISBN 3-428-06003-2 .
  • Georg Küntzel (Ed.): Paul Achatius Pfizer, Political Essays and Letters , Stuttgart 1924.
  • 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. 660 .
  • Frank Raberg:  Pfizer, Paul Achatius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 343 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Theodor Schott :  Pfizer, Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 668-677.
  • Rainer Schöttle : Political Theories of Southern German Liberalism in the Vormärz. Studies on Rotteck, Welcker, Pfizer, Murhard. Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1994 (= Nomos-Universitätsschriften - Politik. Vol. 49).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1866, p. 37.

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personal data
SURNAME Pfizer, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfizer, Paul Achatius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg politician, journalist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1867
Place of death Tübingen