Wilhelm Grabow 1862 (IZ 38-193 H Scherenberg)

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Grabow (15 April 1802 – 15 April 1874) was a Prussian civil servant, judge, and politician.

Biography

In 1848, he was the main author of the election law for the

Prussian National Assembly The Prussian National Assembly (German: ''Preußische Nationalversammlung''), came into being after the revolution of 1848 and was tasked with drawing up a constitution for Prussia. It first met in the building of the '' Sing-Akademie zu Berlin ...

, of which he was the president from 27 June to 26 October. He resigned the presidency, and his mandate, voluntarily. In the parliament, he belonged to the constitutional right, and played a significant role. Grabow was the only representative who took part in the congress of constitutional associations on 22 July 1848. The Potsdam election district No. 8 elected him in 1849 to the

Prussian House of Representatives The Prussian House of Representatives (german: Preußisches Abgeordnetenhaus) was the lower chamber of the Landtag of Prussia (german: Preußischer Landtag), the parliament of Prussia from 1850 to 1918. Together with the upper house, the House of ...

and he became its president in the first legislative period from February to April. He joined the right centre. Due to his oppositional stance over the imposition of the constitution of 5 December 1848, and especially the question of the three class franchise, his election to lord mayor of

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in 1850 was not confirmed. After long hesitation, his election to mayor of

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was permitted, but limited to 12 years, rather than for life. Out of protest against the abolition of universal suffrage, against the new electoral law and the re-establishment of the local and provincial assemblies, Grabow withdrew from political life for a while. He only rejoined the House of Representatives from 1858, serving as its vice-president in 1860-1861 and, from January 1862 to February 1866, as its president again. He led a right-liberal faction, named after him. In 1866, he declined to be re-elected president, in order to allow a reconciliation with the government. In the previous years, he had repeatedly protested against the weak budgetary powers of the second house, which had put him at odds with

Otto von Bismarck Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (, ; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of J ...

's ministers.

Footnotes

*Klaus Herdepe: ''Die preußische Verfassungsfrage 1848''. Neuried 2002, , p. 174f. *Bernd Haunfelder: ''Biographisches HB für das preuß. Abgeordnetenhaus 1849–1867''. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1993, . *Jürgen Theil: ''Prenzlauer Stadtlexikon und Geschichte in Daten''. Prenzlau 2005, p. 66f. *Klaus Grabow: "Carl Friedrich Grabow". In: ''Mitteilungen des Uckermärkischen Geschichtsvereins zu Prenzlau''. Heft 2, 1993, p. 50–58. *Olaf Gründel: "Grabow". In: Friedrich Beck, Eckart Henning (eds.): ''Brandenburgisches Biografisches Lexikon''. Potsdam 2002, p. 149. *Werner Pöls: "Grabow, Wilhelm". In: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' (NDB). Band 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, , p. 701 *Karl Wippermann: "Grabow, Wilhelm". In: ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB). Band 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 542–547. *Helge Dvorak: ''Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft. Band I Politiker, Teilband 2: F–H''. Heidelberg 1999, p. 164–165. {{DEFAULTSORT:Grabow, Wilhelm Members of the Prussian House of Representatives Members of the Provincial Parliament of Brandenburg Member of the Prussian National Assembly 1802 births 1874 deaths

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