Eduard Lasker ( German: Eduard Lasker ; 1829–1884) is a German lawyer and politician .
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Biography
Eduard Lasker was born on October 14, 1829 in Yarocin [5] into a Jewish family; his father Daniel Lasker was a respected merchant in the city and led the life of an Orthodox Jew, showing his son an example of honesty and hard work. In the parental home, Lasker studied the Jewish language , and then began to study general subjects, dreaming of becoming a doctor over time. However, at the end of the gymnasium, Lasker decided not to enter the medical faculty, but the law faculty of the University of Wroclaw [6] .
During the revolution of 1848 he volunteered for the student legion and fought in Vienna on the barricades [7] [8] .
At the end of the revolution, Lasker served in the Berlin City Court, and after a three-year resignation (1870–1873), he transferred to the Prussian Administrative Court [8] .
In 1861-1864 he published a number of articles on the Prussian constitution in Deutsche Jahrbücher (they came out as a separate book under the title: Zur Verfassungsgeschichte Preussens , Leipzig , 1873) [8] .
The German progressive party nominated him as his candidate for the election of the Prussian parliament in 1865, where E. Lasker met until 1879 [8] [9] .
Edward Lasker was elected to the Reichstag in 1867 and remained in it continuously until his death [8] .
He soon parted with the progressives; Imbued with a deep national feeling, Lasker stood, after the brilliant victories of Prussia, for ending the conflict with Bismarck, for a new military loan, etc., and became one of the most prominent leaders of the new, national-liberal party in Germany [8] .
Possessing a great oratorical talent, diligence and remarkable erudition, he took part in the debate on almost all issues, budgets, the criminal code, the administrative organization of the state, craft regulations were developed with the constant and vigorous participation of Lasker [8] .
He played the largest role in 1873, when he began a campaign against the then prevailing system of railway concessions and related abuses. His speech in the Landtag against Wagener is known, which entailed a number of displacements in the Ministry of Commerce and the fall of Minister Itzenplitz himself; after it, in the Prussian railway policy, a turn is observed towards state management of the railway economy [8] .
The motive that prompted Lasker in 1880 to secede from the National Liberal Party and form the so-called secession was the entry of Bismarck and the government on the path of patronizing politics in general and, in particular, agricultural protectionism. The merger of secession with the progressives, to which Lasker sought, occurred after his death [8] .
Edward Lasker died on January 5, 1884 in the city of New York [8] [10] and was buried in the capital of Germany [6] .
The Washington Chamber of Deputies expressed its condolences to the German people on the death of Lasker, "a fighter for free and liberal ideas, which contributed a lot to the social, political and economic success of his fatherland ." This resolution was transmitted to the German Reichstag via Otto von Bismarck , but the latter refused to transmit it to the address on the grounds that it condemned the policy of Emperor Wilhelm I , and even insisted on the recall of the American ambassador Sergant, who entrusted him with the resolution. On this occasion, there was a request to the Reichstag, followed by a heated debate about the legitimacy of Bismarck’s actions [8] .
In addition to the works mentioned above, Eduard Lasker wrote many articles, some of which are collected in the collection: “ Wege und Ziele der Kulturentwickelung ” (Lp., 1881), “ Erlebnisse einer Mannesseele ” (Lp., 1873), published by Auerbach, but soon by the author himself withdrawn from sale, and the brochure: " Die Zukunft des Deutschen Reichs " (Lp., 1877) [8] [11] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118569848 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ In "ESB", probably by mistake, the city of Poznan was named the birthplace of Lasker.
- ↑ 1 2 Lozinsky S.G. Lasker, Edward // Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron . - SPb. , 1908-1913.
- ↑ Baumbach, Rickert, Haenel und Gneist, “L.” (Stuttgart 1884).
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Vodovozov V.V. Lasker, Edward // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Heinrich Joachim Gehlsen . Das Buch vom “großen” Lasker oder Leiden und Freuden einer schönen Mannes - Seele. Kritisch - logisch - dramatische Glosse. Commissionsverlag. Springer'schen Buchhandlung, Berlin; Bernhard Hermann, Leipzig 1874/1875
- ↑ Ernest Hamburger . Juden im öffentlichen Leben Deutschlands. Regierungsmitglieder, Beamte und Parlamentarier in der monarchischen Zeit 1848–1918. In: Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts. Band 19. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 1968
- ↑ Heinrich August Winkler . Preussischer Liberalismus und deutscher Nationalstaat. Studien zur Geschichte der Deutschen Fortschrittspartei 1861–1866. Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 1964.
Literature
- Lozinsky S.G. Lasker, Edward // Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron . - SPb. , 1908-1913.
- Bamberger . "Eduard Lasker" ( Leipzig , 1884).
Links
- Lasker, Edward (politician) at the German National Library .