Richard Hasenclever

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Richard Hasenclever (born May 16, 1812 in Ehringhausen (Remscheid) , † June 8, 1876 in Düsseldorf ) was a writer , medical councilor , co-founder of the Old Catholic movement and a member of the Reichstag .

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Hofgartenstrasse 8, where Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow died
Richard Hasenclever grave in the southern part of the Golzheim cemetery

Richard Hasenclever was the son of the businessman David Hasenclever and Henriette, geb. Locksmith and brother of the district administrator Georg Hasenclever . He studied medicine in Bonn and Berlin . During his studies in 1832 he became a member of the Marcomannia Bonn fraternity . Then he settled in Düsseldorf as a doctor. In 1845 he married Sophie (1824-1892), the daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow , who became known as a poet and translator . Hasenclever later became a district physician in Grevenbroich and headed a military hospital as a medical adviser.

In 1873 Hasenclever founded the Old Catholic Association together with like-minded comrades, from which the Old Catholic community in Düsseldorf emerged. He published the work The New Dogma of the Pope's Infallibility Considered in the Light of Reason and Ancient Doctrine (1874), signed the Koblenz lay address and became a member of the Synodal Representation. He also directed private choirs and composed especially for church singing. In 1874 he wrote the book About the basics of a rational musical education .

From 1855 to 1861, Hasenclever was politically active as a deputy from Düsseldorf in the Prussian second chamber and was then elected to the first German Reichstag in the constituency of Aachen 1 ( Malmedy-Montjoie-Schleiden ), where he was one of the most decisive as a member of the Liberal Reich Party Belonged to opponents of the ultramontane party. The Hasenclever family first lived at Hofgartenstrasse 8, also the house where the father-in-law died, and then at Goltsteinstrasse 24 at Hofgarten .

The grave of Sophie and Richard Hasenclever is in the southern part of the Golzheim cemetery .

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  1. ↑ Short biography and picture in: Horst Conrad, Bernd Haunfelder: Prussian Parliamentarians. A photo album 1859–1867. (= Photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties). Preface by Lothar Gall. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, p. 71.
  2. ^ 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. 181; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag. Verlag Louis Gerschel, Berlin 1883, p. 113; for biography see also: Georg Hirth (Ed.): Deutscher Parlament-Almanach . 9th edition of May 9, 1871. Verlag Franz Duncker, Berlin 1871, p. 196.
  3. ↑ Hasenclever, R., Dr. med. u. Sanitätsrath, Hofgartenstr. 8 , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1859, p. 30
  4. ↑ Goltsteinstrasse 24, Hasenclever, Dr. med. in address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1865.

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SURNAME Hasenclever, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, doctor and politician (LRP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehringhausen (Remscheid)
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1876
Place of death Dusseldorf