Theodor Barth (politician)
Wilhelm Theodor Barth (born July 16, 1849 in Duderstadt ; † June 3, 1909 in Baden-Baden ; pseudonyms: Ferdinand Svendsen and Junius ) was a German politician ( NLP , LV , DFP , FVg , DV ) and publicist at the time of German Empire . From 1881 to 1884, from 1885 to 1898 and from 1901 to 1903 he was a member of the German Reichstag and from 1898 to 1903 also in the Prussian House of Representatives .
Life
As the son of the pharmacist Carl Barth and his wife Mathilde Juliane (née Plathner, widowed Wenkebach), Barth spent his childhood in Bremerhaven from 1853 . He attended the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim and then studied economics and law in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin from 1868 to 1871 . At the age of 21, Barth was promoted to Dr. jur. doctorate , a year later he passed the state examination in law. After completing his academic training, Barth first worked as a lawyer in Bremen , then as an official assessor in Bremerhaven and finally in 1876 became in-house counsel for the Bremen Chamber of Commerce .
Political career
As a determined opponent of Bismarck's protective tariff policy , he represented the Hanseatic cities in the Federal Council's Customs Tariff Commission in 1879 , which, under the chairmanship of Baron von Varnbuler, discussed new tariffs.
Barth began his actual political career as a national liberal , but soon switched to left-wing liberalism . There he gradually turned away from Manchester liberal positions and propagated the social responsibility of liberalism. As a consequence, he increasingly sought cooperation with the Social Democrats and repeatedly came into opposition to the respective leadership of his own party. In the German Freedom Party , to which he had belonged since 1884, he gradually developed into the "soul of the opposition" against chairman Eugen Richter . When they split up in 1893, he joined the Liberal Association and not the Liberal People's Party led by Richter . At times he worked closely with Friedrich Naumann , who joined the Freethinking Association in 1903. However, the ways of the two parted again in 1908 when Barth founded the Democratic Association together with Rudolf Breitscheid and Hellmut von Gerlach , which split off from them in protest against the participation of the Liberals in the Bülow Block . In his new party, however, Barth was unable to achieve anything significant, as he died a year after it was founded.
Emancipation of women
Theodor Barth was one of the first male supporters of women's emancipation .
editor
From 1883 to 1907, Barth was the editor of the journal Die Nation , which he founded , a liberal weekly magazine in which not only politicians and writers, but also scientists such as Lujo Brentano and Theodor Mommsen published.
Web links
- Literature by and about Theodor Barth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Theodor Barth in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Wilhelm Theodor Barth . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
- Theodor Barth dies 100 years ago ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Liberal deadline for the Liberalist Archives of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
literature
- Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 9 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
- Ernst Feder : Theodor Barth and the democratic idea. Perthes, Gotha 1919, DNB 580851532 .
- Theodor Heuss : Barth, Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 606 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Konstanze Wegner : Theodor Barth and the Liberal Association. Studies on the history of left-wing liberalism in Wilhelmine Germany (= Tübingen studies on history and politics. Volume 24). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1968, DNB 458590355 .
Remarks
- ↑ Entry there largely mixed with Marquard Adolph Barth
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wegner 1968, p. 10.
- ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1867-1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-770-05146-7 , p. 55.
- ↑ Helene Lange: Memoirs. Berlin: Herbig, 1925, chap. 23, URL: https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/langeh/lebenser/chap022.html
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SURNAME | Barth, Theodor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barth, Wilhelm Theodor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, MdR and publicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1849 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Duderstadt |
DATE OF DEATH | June 3, 1909 |
Place of death | Baden-Baden |