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MATHY, KARL (1807-1868)

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MATHY, KARL (1807-1868) , Badenese statesman, was See also:born at See also:Mannheim on the 17th of See also:March 1807. He studied See also:law and politics at See also:Heidelberg, and entered the See also:Baden See also:government See also:department of See also:finance in 1829. His sympathy with the revolutionary ideas of 1830, expressed in his See also:paper the Zeitgeist, cost him his See also:appointment in 1834, and he made his way to Switzer-See also:land, where he contributed to the Jeune Suisse directed by Mazzini. On his return to Baden in 184o he edited the Landtagszeitung at Carlsruhe, and in 1842 he entered the estates for the See also:town of See also:Constance. He became one of the opposition leaders and in 1847 helped to found the Deutsche Zeitung, a paper which eventually did much to further the cause of See also:German unity. He took See also:part in the preliminary See also:parliament and in the See also:assembly of See also:Frankfort in 1848-1849, where he supported the policy of H. W. A. von See also:Gagern, and after the refusal of See also:Frederick See also:William IV. to accept the imperial See also:crown he still worked for the cause of unity. He was made finance See also:minister in Baden in May 1849, but was dismissed after a few days of See also:office. He then applied his See also:financial knowledge to banking business in See also:Cologne, See also:Berlin, See also:Gotha and See also:Leipzig. He was recalled to Baden in 1862, and in 1864 became See also:president of the new See also:ministry of See also:commerce. He sought to bring Baden institutions into See also:line with those of See also:northern See also:Germany with a view to ultimate See also:union, and when in 1866 Baden took sides with See also:Austria against See also:Prussia he sent in his resignation.

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war he became president of a new See also:cabinet, but he did not live to see the realization of the policy for which he had striven. He died at Carlsruhe on the 3rd of See also:February 1868. His letters during the years 1846-1848 were edited by See also:Ludwig Mathy (Leipzig, 1899), and his See also:life was written by G. See also:Freytag (Leipzig, 2nd ed., 1872).

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