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Arthur Adolf count of Posadowsky Wehner, baron of Postelwitz (* 3. June 1845 in large Glogau; "† 23 October 1932 in Naumburg) was a German politician.
Posadowsky Wehner come of schlesischem Uradel, its father was the royal higher regional court advice Adolf Eduard count von Posadowsky Wehner, its nut/mother Amalie of He put 1864 down at the Evangelist High School into Glogau the Abitur, in order to study thereafter, the paternal tradition following, on the right of and political sciences in Berlin, Heidelberg and Breslau. He preserved special interest thereby at the state and church right.
After the graduation to the Dr. jur. it completed and locked 1867 first a two-year Referendariat at the Breslauer city court its study time 1869 with the second state examination. It returned however not to the government service and acquired instead a property, which it regaled in the future. 1871 he married Elise of Moeller, the daughter of an industrial tribunal president. With their it had two sons, of whom one deceased early, as well as two daughters.
Since the agricultural work was not able to satisfy it, Posadowsky Wehner entered 1871 again the political stage and received a position in the Provinzialregierung from floats. Between 1873 and 1882 he was as a land advice actively, first in the circle Wongrowitz, then in the circle Sent Posadowsky Wehner in this position used its large independence and strove moderately for a reconciliation between the Polish population majority and the German inhabitants of the districts, without neglecting the interests of the German empire at the same time.
As a member of the freeconservative party it sat from 1882 to 1885 in the Prussian Lower House. Afterwards it led the Provinzialselbstverwaltung Posens freshly lifted from the baptism and concentrated particularly on the improvement of the infrastructure. 1890 were appointed Posadowsky Wehner the national captain Posens.
Also in Berlin one became attentive on the rising Schlesier. Emperor Wilhelm II. appointed it on 1 September 1893 as the undersecretary of state of the realm Treasury, in addition he became authorized person in the Upper House of Parliament. Posadowsky Wehners politics strengthened the role of the realm Treasury opposite the dominating Prussian Treasury. It slowed the rise down of the debts, began with their repayment and implemented regulations for the protection of the agriculture.
After originally for these offices planned the Johannes of Miquel had rejected, ascended Posadowsky Wehner on 1 July 1897 to the undersecretary of state office for realm of the inside, vice-chancellor and to the Prussian Minister of State without division. Under it a paradigm change in the question carried out itself, how the monarchische state should deal with the social-democracy.
The so-called penintentiary collecting main supplied the cause for a re-orientation. With this law, which was brought by Posadowsky Wehner on suggestion of the emperor 1899 into Reichstag, persons, who prevent or to the strike tempt a worker from the practice of his work, should be able to be punished with prison. Against the voices of the conservative ones Reichstag the collecting main rejected on 20 November 1899. The renewed attempt, which abzugraben SPD by an extension of the catalog of repressive measures the water, had failed thereby. Posadowsky Wehner pulled from the defeat consequences and established new balance politics in relation to the social-democracy, by dealing with its demands and continuing the social legislation.
Among the outstanding achievements "of the era Posadowsky "the law ranked to the trade and industrial regulations from 1 June 1901. It introduced the sunning and holiday peace for workers to the industrie and building range, forbade the Kinderarbeit under 13 years, improved the maternity protection and forbade the night work. In municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants industrial tribunals became furnished, which should judge of work disputes. Further laws improved the worker and invalidity insurance, doubled on thirteen weeks the limited payment of the sickpay and obligated the state to take part in the building from worker's dwellings to. The advancement of the welfare state was supported by the SPD in Reichstag and increased the reputation Posadowsky Wehners with the social-democracy.
In addition Posadowsky Wehner in the customs tariff commission led a compromise between the demands federation of the farmers, which required a drastic increase of the corn duties from 3,50 Marks to 7,50 Marks for each quintal, and which opposite side, which warned of retaliatory duties for German products, here. The new customs law, which on 14 December 1902 with the voices of the center, which was ratified national liberals and the moderate conservative ones, an increase of the tariffs from 3,50 Marks specified to 5,00 Marks for rye and on 5,50 Marks for wheat. Thus the customs tariffs of the yearly 1892 were restored.
In the further process of its term of office Posadowsky Wehner saw itself suspended to increasing pressure relating to domestic affairs. Its sociopolitical eagerness and its close co-operation with the center brought the liberals and conservative ones against it up. When realm chancellor Bernhard von 1907 terminated the Kollaboration with the center due to diversities of opinion in the colonial policy, Posadowksy Wehner the political work basis was extracted. Therefore it withdrew on 24 June 1907.
From now on Posadowsky Wehner lived right knights of the Johanniterordens as Dechant of the Protestant cathedral chapter ""in Naumburg. It remained to the policy however and sat from 1907 to 1918 in the Prussian manor-house and from 1912 to 1918 as parliamentary groupless delegates in Reichstag. Between 1915 and 1917 he represented its son Nikolaus gotten sick as a land advice of Elbing.
The defeat that of empire in the First World War regretted Posadowsky Wehner deeply. It disapproved the new state order of the Weimar Republic, splintering the parties seemed it the unit of the German Reich to endanger. Nothing the defiance continued it also after 1918 its political working. He stood as a candidate on 11 February 1919 against Friedrich Ebert with the choice to the realm president, was subject however in that to Weimar national assembly with 49 to 277 with altogether 379 voices. Until 1920 he was leader of the parliamentary group of the DNVP. To the cut Putsch, which was welcomed by many DNVP members, it went to at the end of of 1920 on distance from the party, which had become too radical it, and finally left it.
When the inflation kulminierte in the years 1923 and 1924, it supported revaluing and of the concerning. 1925 one selected it in the Provinziallandtag of the province Saxonia, from 1928 to 1932 sat he for the small realm party for people right and revaluation in the Prussian federal state parliament, whose first meeting of the new legislative period he opened as a chairman by seniority. It died 1932 at the age of 87 years in Naumburg.
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