Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen ( German: Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen ; January 10, 1803 , Hünshofen - December 3, 1890 , Cologne ) - Prussian and German banker and statesman, liberal, one of the leaders of the Rhine bourgeoisie.
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Biography
In 1825, he founded with his brother a bank office in Cologne. One of the first in the press for conducting railways in Germany. In 1841, he established the Cologne Tug and Shipping Society. In 1843, Cologne elected him to the Rhine provincial Sejm, in which he made a proposal for freedom of the press, and in 1845 - a proposal for the implementation of the people's representation promised in 1815. At the United Diet of 1847, where he held on to the right-wing faction of the liberal party, Camphausen made a proposal to periodically convene this assembly.
March 29, 1848 he was placed at the head of the Prussian Ministry, but immediately had to enter the fight against democratic elements. When the draft constitution drafted by Hansemann was submitted by Camphausen to the national assembly and seemed unsatisfactory to the liberal majority, he resigned on June 20. At the end of July he was appointed Commissioner of Prussia to the central German government in Frankfurt; in this title, he stood for the Hagern program and tried to bring it into line with the claims of individual governments. When Prussia spoke out in favor of rejecting the imperial constitution, Kamphausen resigned and left Frankfurt. In Erfurt, he, as rapporteur of the commission, defended the adoption of the entire constitution for a closer German alliance. In the Prussian first chamber and the chamber of gentlemen, to which he was elected in 1850, belonged to the opposition.
After leaving the civil service, he returned to banking, but in 1868 left it too, taking up astronomy at his own observatory and even receiving a degree at the University of Bonn . At the same time, he did not completely break with politics until the end of his life: in 1860 he received a life-long seat in the Prussian House of Lords, and in 1867-1871 he was a deputy of the North German Reichstag from the old liberals.
Literature
- Camphausen, Ludolph // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
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- Camphausen Ludolph - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- Soviet historical encyclopedia .