Carl Herz

German lawyer and Member of Parliament

For the American-Canadian mathematician, see Carl S. Herz.

Carl Herz

Born| 21 December 1831

Würzburg

Died| 8 May 1897(1897-05-08) (aged 65)

Aschaffenburg

Nationality| German
Occupation| lawyer

Carl Herz (21 December 1831 - 8 May 1897, Aschaffenburg[1]) was a German lawyer, and, between 1871 and 1883, Member of Parliament (Reichstagsabgeordneter).[1][2]

## Life

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### The lawyer

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Carl Herz was born into a catholic family in Würzburg, where he attended school locally.[3] He began his university studies in 1851, studying Jurisprudence at Würzburg and then at Heidelberg.[2] This was followed by a period of educational tours ("Bildungsreisen") abroad, which took in France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, North Germany and Denmark.[1] He obtained a job with the district court in Nuremberg in 1868.[2] After this, in 1871, he became a "supply prosecutor", substituting for any absences of permanent officers, in Aschaffenburg and Munich. Later in the same year he obtained a permanent post as a public prosecutor in Munich.[3]

Between 1883 and 1897 Carl Herz served as president of the district court ("Landgerichtspräsident") in Aschaffenburg.[1]

### The politician

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#### Bavaria

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Late in 1869, ahead of the 1870 session, he was elected to the lower house of the Bavarian parliament, sitting as a member of the recently founded Bavarian Progressive Party ("Bayerische Fortschrittspartei"),[4] and representing the Weißenburg (Middle Franconia) electoral district.[1] Following the upheavals that cleared the way for German unification the assembly mutated into a regional parliament (Landtag). Herz remained a member till 1887, although in 1881 the electoral district he represented changed, when he became the member for Würzburg.[1]

Within the chamber he served on various parliamentary commissions. He was a long-time chairman (then deputy chairman) of the petitions commission.

#### Germany

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From March 1871 Herz was able to combine his Bavarian parliamentary duties in Munich with membership of the newly established National Parliament ("Reichstag") in Berlin, again as a member of the Progressive Party ("Deutsche Fortschrittspartei" / DFP). Here again, he sat on several parliamentary commissions, including the petitions commission.[3]

Between 1871 and 1883, when he resigned his mandate in the national parliament for the last time, he represented an unusually disparate succession of electoral districts:[3]

* 1871-1874 Middle Franconia 4 (Eichstätt)[3]
* 1874-1877 Berlin 3[5]
* 1877-1878 Middle Franconia 3 (Ansbach-Schwabach).[3] He resigned his seat in July 1878.
* 1881-1883 Upper Franconia 3 (Forchheim)[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f "Herz, Dr. Carl". Geschichte des Bayerischen Parlaments seit 1819. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Augsburg. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
2. ^ a b c "Herz, Karl". Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. 1881. p. 158. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
3. ^ a b c d e f g "Personenedata ... Carl Herz". Parlamentarierportal (BIOPARL). Zentrum für Historische Sozialforschung (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz), Köln. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
4. ^ "Herz, Carl". Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. February 1874. pp. 192–193. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
5. ^ Michael B. Gross (2004). The War Against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-century Germany. University of Michigan Press. p. 276\. ISBN 0-472-11383-6.

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