Eduard Lasker

Eduard Lasker (actually: Yitzhak Lasker, born October 14, 1829 in Jarotschin, today JAROCIN, Province of Posen, Poland, † January 5, 1884 in New York City ) was a Prussian politician and lawyer.

Life

Lasker was the son of Jewish nail manufacturers Daniel Lasker and his wife Rebecca. His first education he enjoyed by private tutors and at a yeshiva in Ostrowo. At age 13, he attended the Gymnasium in Breslau in 1842. In the high school years, he changed his first name to Edward. After reaching the Abitur in 1847 he began to study in the same year mathematics and philosophy at the University of Breslau.

The Revolution of 1848/49 saw Lasker in Vienna. End of the year but he was again found in Wroclaw at the university. Due to the political events influence, he now began to study law. In 1851 he took his Auskultator exam and two years later he passed his second state examination. Then he went to Britain, where he lived until 1856 three years. Here he has been accepted into the Masonic Lodge Tranquillity Ranked # 185 in London.

In 1857 he returned to Germany. At the Municipal Court in Berlin Lasker was very successful state examination; but as a Jewish citizen had no chance to be accepted into the civil service. During this time Lasker entered a publicist for the political ideas of his friend Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim. In the constitutional conflict in 1865 Lasker got the by-election a mandate in the Prussian House of Representatives.

Until their split in 1866 Lasker was a member of the German Progressive Party. 1866 belonged Lasker along with Karl and Hans Victor von Unruh Twesten to the liberal deputies who supported the Indemnitätsgesetz. 1867 Lasker helped with then to found the National Liberal Party (NLP ). After recently been Lasker was the leader of the left- liberal wing of the party. He embodied for the public opinion the idea of Parliament, wanted to expand its power and make it the decisive factor in politics. As in 1879, this policy collapsed, reminded the Frankfurter Zeitung, the " inkwell " of the National Liberals, to a statement Bamberger: " Anyone who uses the parliaments before the realm of freedom is founded in the foundation, which does not paves the progress, but the betrayal of the way ". Lasker broke up in 1880 by the National Liberals to start conjunction with other long -time companion, especially with Heinrich Rickert, von Stauffenberg and Ludwig Bamberger, the Liberal Association. This achieved, especially in Prussia considerable electoral success in 1884 and merged with the German Progressive Party for German Liberal Party under Eugen Richter and von Stauffenberg.

Although he was not last always exposed to stronger anti- Semitic hostility because of its origin, Lasker get great parliamentary successes in the diets of the North German Confederation and Empire and the Prussian House of Representatives. Lasker cleared the scandal surrounding the Berlin Northern Railway significantly parliament on with. The economic scandal surrounding the railroad king Bethel Henry Strousberg and the founder of the railway company Prince Putbus and Prince Biron of Courland also several politicians were involved - that brought the government loyal to be Representatives in conflict with Otto von Bismarck, who had set himself the goal of Lasker to isolate within the National Liberal Party.

From 1875 onwards ill Lasker hard and finally suffered because he still aufrieb in the business of politics, 1883 a total collapse. He wanted to recuperate through a longer stay in the United States. But already in the following year, Eduard Lasker died at the age of 54 years on January 5, 1884 in New York.

Bismarck ban a letter addressed to the Reichstag condolence to U.S. Congress passed to the Parliament. He had to return it on the ground to Washington, the activity of the deceased was not the German people have been useful. Ministers and officials were forbidden from Bismarck to attend his funeral. However, he paid tribute to him in his memoirs as "honest opponent ". 1901 Eduard Lasker was buried at the Jewish cemetery on the beautiful Allee in Berlin. Now he rests there along with Ludwig Bamberger in an honorary grave.

One of his major achievements is probably the Lex Miquel Lasker, which he could eventually prevail as a National Liberal Member of Parliament together with Johannes Miquel 1873. It extended the legislative powers of the kingdom of, among others, on the whole civil law and prepared so decisively the way for the uniform civil legislation of the Civil Code (BGB).

Works

• The two Laskertage in the House of Deputies. Speeches by the Lasker against Wagener and the Eisenbahnconcessionswesen in Prussia held in the House of Representatives on February 7 ( and 15 February ) 1873. Prague, Berlin 1873
• On the constitutional history of Prussia. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1874
• The dispute over the Justitzgesetze. Open Sendchreiben. ( With a survey of the issues and their resolution ). Moeser, Berlin 1876
• The future of the German empire. Speech to the Reichstag deputies Dr. E. Lasker held in the Charitable Society in Leipzig on 18 January 1877. Leipzig 1877 ( 4th ed Schloemp, Leipzig 1884)
• Paths and goals of the Culturentwickelung. Essays. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1881
• Experiences of a man's soul. Edited by Berthold Auerbach. Cotta bookstore, Stuttgart 1873 digitized
• William Kahn ( ed.): From Eduard Lasker's estate. Part 1 15 years of parliamentary history ( 1866-1880 ). Georg Reimer, Berlin 1902
• Against the Anti-Socialist Law in 1878. Bookstore National Association, Munich 1910 ( German champion freedom 12)