Paul de Chapeaurouge

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Paul Henri Adolph Wilhelm Franz de Chapeaurouge (born December 11, 1876 in Hamburg ; † October 3, 1952 there ) was a German lawyer and Hamburg politician. In the Weimar Republic he was a Hamburg senator and was a member of the Hamburg parliament for 21 years , after the war he also became a member of the Parliamentary Council . Several Councilors of State and Hamburg Senators emerged from his Chapeaurouge family . De Chapeaurouge was married to Oscar Louis Tesdorpf's daughter Elise.

Life and work

After graduating from the private Bertram School in Hamburg, de Chapeaurouge studied law. He had been a notary in Hamburg since 1904 and took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1914 to 1917 .

Political party

Paul de Chapeaurouge belonged to the National Liberal Party during the German Empire , which was reorganized into the German People's Party in 1918 . He was a member of this until 1933. As early as the turn of the year 1931/32 he was considering a cooperation with the NSDAP , which, however, did not lead to actual coalition negotiations due to the lack of a majority of the DVP, DNVP and NSDAP. In January 1933, however, the state party succeeded in winning negotiations, in which de Chapeaurouge was also involved. However, the negotiations failed in February 1933 due to the refusal of some state party members in the citizenry to vote for NSDAP senators. After the KPD was excluded from participation in Reich and Landtag sessions by an emergency ordinance of the Reich government, the right-wing parties had a majority in the citizenship even without the state party.

After the Second World War , de Chapeaurouge initially joined the Association of Members and Friends of the German People's Party of Erich Röper and Hermann Carl Vering , which pursued the goal of bringing about a bourgeois collection movement under the leadership of former DVP members. He turned down an offer from Christian Koch , whose Free Democrats party , which later became the Hamburg FDP regional association, to join. Finally, at the end of 1945 he founded the Father City Association of Hamburg , of which he was also chairman. Most of the members of the DVP Circle of Friends and the Liberal Party founded by the businessman Franz-Josef Weiss joined the VBH in early 1946.

In addition to his leadership role in the VBH, de Chapeaurouge made contacts with the former DNVP and DVFP Reichstag member Reinhold Wulle , who had just founded the German rebuilding party , a nucleus of the later DKP / DRP . When these contacts to the far right endangered the approval of the VBH, de Chapeaurouge withdrew from Wulle and intensified efforts to attract small groups in Hamburg, such as the party of civil rights around the former DVP member Wilhelm Kohrs , which he also decided to transfer to the VBH could move. In July 1946, Chapeaurouge finally succeeded in obtaining approval for his party from the military government. Knowing full well that the staffing of his organization was very thin, he offered the CDU , FDP, German Conservative Party and Lower Saxony State Party to run together under the umbrella of the VBH. After the FDP finally rejected this offer on September 22, 1946, Chapeaurouge only managed to secure list places with the CDU for himself and Vering, whose place was not even enough to move into the citizenship due to the election result; It was already too late for the VBH to run independently.

In 1949, the VBH, which only existed formally, became the shell for the list connection between CDU, FDP and DKP. As early as the end of 1948, Chapeaurouge had renewed negotiations with the CDU, FDP and German party and later also the DKP about an electoral alliance, with the FDP finally rejecting an alliance with the DP, so that only the CDU, FDP and DKP stood together. In addition to de Chapeaurouge, the FDP politician Edgar Engelhard was elected chairman of the VBH with equal rights. When the CDU, FDP and DKP were unable to agree on a joint parliamentary group after the election, the VBH also formally dissolved and de Chapeaurouge and the few remaining members of the father-city league joined the CDU.

MP

From 1917 to 1933 Chapeaurouge was a member of the Hamburg Parliament. In the first state election after the Second World War, Chapeaurouge ran for election as part of an election agreement of his VBH on the CDU list and moved back into parliament. In the township election in 1949 he was the top candidate of the VBH, which now functions as a list connection, and then belonged to the township until his death. After the formation of the electoral alliance on September 27, 1949, de Chapeaurouge was elected chairman of the VBH parliamentary group that had now been formed and held this office until the 1949 state elections.

Cushion stone for Paul de Chapeaurouge, Ohlsdorf cemetery

From September 1, 1948 to May 23, 1949, he was, alongside Adolph Schönfelder, one of the two members of the Parliamentary Council sent by the Hamburg Parliament . In the deliberations on the Basic Law, he spoke out against the constitutional abolition of the death penalty.

His son Alfred was also a member of the citizenry from 1953 to 1986 . His uncle Charles Ami de Chapeaurouge was a Hamburg Senator from 1869 to 1892.

Paul de Chapeaurouge was buried in the Jacques Henri de Chapeaurouge family grave , Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square Q 25 (north of the water tower ).

Public offices

From March 18, 1925 to March 6, 1933 de Chapeaurouge was a member of the Hamburg Senate . There he was responsible for the university and science department. After the resignation of the Social Democratic Police Senator Adolph Schönfelder on March 3, 1933, he also took over this office. Just three days later, however, he resigned angrily from the Senate after the police force had been transferred to SA Standartenführer Alfred Richter by Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick . In addition to this snub, it was also decisive for the resignation that de Chapeaurouge had lost support in the DVP because he was now considered a left wing man in the party, which was drifting further and further to the right.

As a university senator in 1929, in the text “ For and against the Academic City ”, he advocated making the Hamburg World Economic Archive an independent one and transferring it to a foundation.

Awards

Publications

  • State construction work in Hamburg after the war. Handfeste-Verlag, Hamburg 1926.
  • For and against the academic city. Insert in the Hamburg Correspondent of January 1, 1929.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Hamburger Rundblick" , in Hamburger Abendblatt from February 1, 1952, accessed on July 4, 2020.
  2. ↑ Honorary Senators of the University of Hamburg ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hamburg.de

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personal data
SURNAME Chapeaurouge, Paul de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chapeaurouge, Paul Henri Adolph Wilhelm Franz de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Hamburg politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1952
Place of death Hamburg