Paul Vogel (politician, 1845)

Robert Sterl : Paul W. Vogel (1925)

Paul Wilhelm Vogel (born August 6, 1845 in Chemnitz , † February 14, 1930 in Dresden ) was a German national liberal politician. He was a long-time member of the Saxon state parliament and president of the Second Chamber.

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The son of the Chemnitz commercial councilor, furniture fabric and paper manufacturer Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm Vogel (1810–1870) and his wife Thekla geb. Schneider, sister of the Saxon Minister of Justice (1866–1871) Robert Schneider , received his first education at a Chemnitz community and secondary school as well as at a Progymnasium. Since 1859 he attended the Meißner Fürstenschule St. Afra , but passed his Abitur at a Zwickau grammar school after he had left the Fürstenschule shortly before completing the upper prima after a dispute with the director there. He then studied chemistry and physics at the universities in Vienna , Berlin and Leipzig . In 1866 he moved to Heidelberg , where he matriculated for the subjects of mathematics and philosophy. In 1868 he completed his studies there with a legal dissertation.

In October 1868 he joined his father's company as an authorized signatory , which he managed from 1876 to 1887 together with his brother Hermann Vogel (1841-1917). He then left the company, moved to Dresden and became politically active for the National Liberal Party . In 1890 he was elected chairman of the National Liberal Reich Association in Dresden. He was a member of the Dresden city council from 1894 to 1898 and 1906 to 1919, and from 1909 first vice chairman. From the 1901/02 state parliament he was a member of the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament and acted there between 1903 and 1908 as the deputy chairman of the national liberal parliamentary group. From 1909 he was also deputy chairman of the National Liberal Party of Germany at the Reich level . He was also involved in several industry interest groups. Since 1905 he was a member of the board of directors of the Central Association of German Industrialists .

In the Saxon state parliament he was one of the advocates of plural suffrage , which in 1909 replaced the three-class suffrage that the Conservative Party had favored. After the state elections in 1909, the balance of power shifted in favor of the National Liberals, so that Vogel was elected President of the Chamber in place of Paul Mehnert . He held this office until the state parliament was dissolved in 1918, when the Dresden workers 'and soldiers' council occupied the Dresden state house . In the Weimar Republic he was one of the founding members of the German People's Party .

He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Technical University of Dresden .

Fonts

• The term of the legal transaction offending against morality according to §138 Abs. 1 BGB , Diss. Leipzig 1906.
• Memories from my public work in Dresden . In: Dresdner Kalender 1925, pp. 208–215.

literature

• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952. Sächsischer Landtag, Dresden 2001, pp. 79–80.
• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 484-485.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. Technical University of Dresden, accessed on January 28, 2015 . 

Web links

• Josef Matzerath: Vogel, Paul Wilhelm . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .