August Reichensperger

August Reichenspergerplatz ( born March 22, 1808 in Koblenz, † July 16, 1895 in Cologne) was a German lawyer and politician as well as supporters of the Cologne Cathedral.

Life

Sperger rich father, who came from simmering, was criminal judge then Präfekturrat in Koblenz, the capital of the then Département de Rhin -et -Moselle. After this early ( 1812) passed away, the mother raised her four children alone and allowed her two sons even a study. Reichenspergerplatz studied after high school 1827 law in Berlin, Bonn and Heidelberg. He became the Dr. phil. doctorate before he entered government service. His first job he found at the Regional Court Trier, where he worked from 1844 to 1848. Subsequently, he was from 1849 to 1879 Appellationsgerichtsrat in Cologne, where at times acted by his brother Peter.

Since 1840, Reichenspergerplatz dedicated for the further construction of the Cologne Cathedral, he was a founding member of the Central Cathedral Association in Cologne.

In 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and 1850 of the Erfurt Union Parliament. In both cases, he fought the Prussian hegemony and agreed in each case against the Prussian Erbkaisertum and the Union plans. A seat in the Prussian House of Deputies had Reichenspergerplatz 1850 to 1863 and sat as one of the leading persons of the Catholic faction. On September 6, 1858, he was president of the Catholic Conference in Cologne. From 1871 to 1884 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the electoral district of Krefeld and joined the newly formed Group of the Centre Party. In addition to Ludwig Windthorst, Hermann von Mallinckrodt and his brother Peter, he was one of the leaders of political Catholicism and a committed champion of the Catholic lay movement in Germany. In 1851 he was involved in the founding of the " Academic Reading Association" (now K.St.V. Askania Burgundia Berlin) in Berlin involved in CT and in 1871 its honorary member.

Reichenspergerplatz had many and varied interests and dealt only with politics closely with art, architecture and literature.

In 1895 was Reichenspergerplatz honorary citizen of the city of Cologne, before he was already in 1889 an honorary citizen of Oppenheim and became in 1892 an honorary citizen of Koblenz year.

After his death, the city of Cologne in 1897 named the square at the intersection of Merlo and the Weißenburgstraße with the Riehler street in Reichenspergerplatz to. Here the Justice building for the Cologne Higher Regional Court and other courts in 1911 was inaugurated. The local metro station carries the name of the place.

Reichenspergerplatz is buried in an honorary grave in the cemetery Melaten.

Works

  • The 14 still images in Domchore of Cologne. 1842
  • The Christian-Germanic architecture, Trier. 1852
  • The Catholic interests in the 19th century. 1853
  • Miscellaneous Writings on Christian art. 1856
  • Parliamentary speeches 1848-57. 1858
  • Phrases and keywords. 1872
  • All sorts from the fields of art. 1867
  • William Shakespeare. 1871
  • Augustus Pugin, the new founder of Christian art in England, Freiburg. 1877
  • The masons of the Middle Ages. 1879
  • For the modern history of Dombaus in Cologne. 1881
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