Karl Braun (politician)
Karl Joseph Wilhelm Braun ( called Braun- Wiesbaden, Carl ) ( born March 20, 1822 in Hadamar, Hesse, † July 14, 1893 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German politician who stood up for free trade.
Education and work
Charles Brown was the son of the Dean Joseph Brown from Hadamar. He attended from 1836 to 1840 the school Philippinum Weilburg. After graduation, he studied philology and law at the University of Marburg. In 1840, he became active in the Corps Hasso Nassovia Marburg. In 1841 he moved to the Georg -August- University of Göttingen, where he also joined the Corps Nassovia. In 1856 he received a doctorate in law ..
He was an author at Siegen citizens sheet and the Nassau newspaper.
Since 1843 he worked in the public service. From 1855 to 1867 Brown was attorney ( Rechtsprokurator ) at the Higher Court of Appeal in Wiesbaden. Therefore, the addition in his surname ( Braun- Wiesbaden), says he to distinguish between, for example, the Austrian writer Karl Johann Braun (1802-1866) used. Since 1867 he worked as a lawyer in Berlin. From 1880 to 1887, he was an attorney at the Imperial Court in Leipzig. Then he was again a lawyer in Berlin.
Brown was among the founders of several public companies and sat on the board of the German Union Bank.
Political action
Brown was a member from 1849 to 1851 the national assembly and thereafter until 1866, the second chamber of the Parliament of the Duchy of Nassau. Between 1858 and 1863 he was President of the Parliament. He was a leading member of the Nassau -sian People's Party. In 1862 he joined the German National Team. Important his role was in the national accounts Congress, the Congress President after the foundation in 1858 he was one year until the last meeting in 1880.
After the annexation of Nassau's 1866 Brown belonged from 1867 to 1879 to the Prussian House of Representatives. He was a member of the North German Reichstag and 1871-1887 of the German Reichstag. He was there as one of the leaders of the factions of the National Liberal Party. In the Party itself Braun sat from 1867 to 1878 on the board.
He left the party in 1880 because of the agreement to Bismarck's tariff policy. He was from then on the secessionists, whose most prominent members of Ludwig Bamberger and Eugen Richter were at. 1873 Brown took over the publication of the newspaper Spenersche to Berlin, but in 1874 went down.
In addition, Brown was director of the Association for Nassauische archeology and historical research. He also published economic and constitutional writings.