Karl Friedrich William Mathy (* 17. March 1807 in Mannheim, "† 3 February 1868 in Karlsruhe) was a liberal politician, late banker and Minister of State of Baden.

Life

Mathy studied on the right of and coming ral sciences at the University of Heidelberg from 1824-1828 and occurred after a study trip to Paris 1829 as a coming ral trainee Mannheim the government service of Baden. it changed 1832 for tax management to Karlsruhe, however to its participation in the Hambacher celebration of the office was relieved and due to the support Frankfurt being awake tower and its cooperation at several radical newspapers and writings - under it "“Augsburger general newspaper"”, "“the freeintimate"” as well as the Rotteck Welcker' state encyclopedia - of the 1833 from the government service to dismiss and four weeks in remand taken. It emigrierte 1835 into Switzerland, where it as a teacher and journalist in Biel and Aarau worked. As a fellow combatant Mazzinis he wrote articles among other things for the Konstanzer of "“sea-sheets"” and "“La jeune Suisse"”. After it was taken in Switzerland because of the suspicion on affiliation to Mazzinis secret federation "“young Europe"” in remand, it extracted 1836 from the access of Swiss authorities by escape, pulled themselves 1837 after Grenchen and finally returned 1840 to bathing. In Karlsruhe it wrote for the local "“newspaper of Baden"”, the newspaper"” and the "“Mannheimer journal"”. Starting from 1842 he was publisher of the "“federal state parliament newspaper"”.

1842 became Mathy of delegates in the second chamber of Baden and were promoted to one the leader of the liberals opposition. 1846 became Mathy also member in the Mannheimer local council.

1843 created Mathy as well as Friedrich Daniel Bassermann in Mannheim the Bassermann publishing house and were 1847 one the founder and publisher of the liberal-intellectual German newspaper.

Prominent one of liberals politician 1848/49

Mathy belonged since 1844 to the resounding garden circle around Johann Adam von Itzstein. Contrary to its former fellow combatant Friedrich Hecker it represented increasingly less radical conceptions and set more strongly on evolutionary changes of German conditions. At the latest since its co-operation with Bassermann that stood formerly as radically which was afraid Mathy for a more moderate liberal program, which planned the German agreement in a smallGerman solution under Prussian guidance. Beyond that it continued to occur for Pressefreiheit, the abolition of medieval loads as well as - contrary to the radical democrats - for freedom of trade and handels as well as the abolition of customs borders.

Not least due to its position with the "“German newspaper"” Mathy of one of the supervisors of the Heppenheimer conference was on 10 October 1847. 1848 was it a president of the Mannheimer popular assembly and became a captain in the Mannheimer people resistance. In the March of of the same yearly he was participant of the Heidelberger meeting, that expressed the invitations to the Vorparlament, to which Mathy likewise belonged. Mathy of delegates was subsequently, in the fifties-committee and its authorized persons in the Schleswig-Holstein question. Of 18. May 1848 up to 21. May 1849 he was a delegate for Calw in the Frankfurt national assembly, where he ranked among the prominent members of the Casino parliamentary group.

From August 1848 until May 1849 it was active as an under-secretary of State in the realm Treasury of the provisional central power. Parallel, of April 1848 until May 1849, he belonged to the government of Baden as Council of State as a Minister without division. Here it tightened itself finally the anger and the Verachtung of the radical democrats around Struve and Hecker, when it arranged the arrest of the leading editor of the radical "“sea-sheets"” on 8 April 1848 arbitrarily, Joseph Fickler. After outbreak to the revolution of Baden belonged Mathy from May to June 1849 to the government-in-exile Grand Duke Leopolds at short notice as a president of the Treasury.

Retreat in the private after the failure of the national assembly

After the failure of its political program by Friedrich of William refusal of the emperor crown and the radicalization of the March revolution Mathy lived at short notice as a journalist in Frankfurt. It participated in the Gothaer Nachparlament and was 1850 delegates in the Erfurter union parliament. After the foreseeable end of the union politics and after it had lost its seat in the Mannheimer local council, he withdrew provisionally from the policy and worked themselves again as a journalist in Mannheim, among other things for the "“Weser newspaper"”, the Leipziger "“border messenger"” and the "“Mannheimer journal"”.

In August 1854 Mathy withdrew also from the Bassermann publishing house and went on switching Gustav Mevissens as leading coworkers to the Schaaffhausen' bank association to Cologne. 1855 he became a director von Hansemanns Disconto society in Berlin, 1857 first director of the Gothaer private bank in Gotha and 1859 first director of the German credit association in Leipzig.

Late career in the government service of Baden

1862 were appointed Mathy again into the government service of Baden, first as a director/conductor of the yard domain chamber, later than Ministers of Trade. 1863 it became authorized persons additionally of Baden at the German customs union. After war entrance of bathing on sides of Austria in the war of 1866 it laid down its government offices.

After the Prussian victory Mathy was appointed on 27 July 1866 as the Minister of State Badens. Under its government the traffic infrastructure of bathing was improved, among other things by establishment of the Schwarzwald railway and the Odenwaldbahn of Baden as well as the preparation of the conclusion of the Rhine navigation document. Its most important political goal as a head of the government was the connection of bathing at the north Germans federation. It died, before it could achieve this goal.

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