Philipp Koehler

Philipp Köhler (born August 6, 1859 in Langsdorf ; † January 10, 1911 in Langsdorf) was a farmer , mayor and member of the Reichstag .

Life

Philipp Köhler was the son of the farmer Johann Henrich Köhler XI. (1833–1896) and his wife Katharina nee Hofmann (1838–1918). Köhler attended elementary school in Langsdorf from 1865 to 1871, a private school in Hungen in 1872 and the grammar school in Darmstadt from 1872 to 1874 . After that he was a farmer in Langsdorf and Bettenhausen . In 1882 he served in the 2nd Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 116 (Kaiser Wilhelm) in Gießen . In 1884 Philipp Köhler, who was of Protestant denomination, married Dorothea, née Bommersheim (1863–1936). Between 1897 and 1906 he was mayor, head of the local court and registrar in Langsdorf. He was also a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1890 for the electoral district Oberhessen 2 / Butzbach and in 1893 for the electoral district Oberhessen 4 / Hungen- Lich . In 1899 and 1905 he was elected unanimously. He belonged to the Hessian farmers' union . From December 1905 he was second president of the 2nd chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse until he left the state parliament in 1911. Furthermore, he was the initiator and board member of the Grand Ducal Hessian Chamber of Agriculture and a committee member of the agricultural association for the province of Upper Hesse . He was the founder of numerous public associations, cooperatives, etc. Under Otto Böckel , he was a co-founder of the Central German Farmers 'Association in 1890, and since 1894 chairman of this association, which in 1904 became part of the Farmers' Association.

From 1893 to 1903 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1 ( Gießen , Grünberg , Nidda ) and the anti-Semitic German Reform Party . From 1907 to 1912 Köhler again represented the constituency in the Reichstag, where he joined the faction of the German Social Party . On July 1, 1896, his mandate in the Reichstag was declared expired because a postal agency had been transferred to him. In the runoff election he was able to defend his mandate against Philipp Scheidemann . From 1898 to 1903 he was no longer a full member of the Reform Party faction, but merely an intern.

literature

Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , pp. 157–158.
Wilfried Schlau: Köhler, Philipp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 310 f. ( Digitized version ).
Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 463.
Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 221.

Web links

Köhler-Langsdorf, Philipp in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Philipp Koehler . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Koehler, Philipp. Hessian biography. (As of January 10, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

↑ for the meaning of the name symbol "XI.", Compare the ordinance regarding the designation of local citizens of the same name
↑ For the individual elections see Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 15, 2). Half volume 2. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1317-1322.
^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 260.

personal data
SURNAME	Koehler, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Koehler-Langsdorf, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German farmer, mayor and politician (HBB), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Langsdorf
DATE OF DEATH	January 10, 1911
Place of death	Langsdorf

[1] r the meaning of the name symbol "XI.", Compare the ordinance regarding the designation of local citizens of the same name

[2] For the individual elections see Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 15, 2). Half volume 2. Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1317-1322.

[3] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 260.