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SIMS, GEORGE ROBERT (1847– )
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See also:SIMS, See also:GEORGE See also:ROBERT (1847– ) , See also:English journalist
and dramatic author, was See also:born on the 2nd of See also:September 1847. He was educated at See also:Hanwell See also:College and at See also:Bonn, and commenced journalism in 1874 as successor to Tom See also:Hood on Fun.
accept this dignity at the hands of a See also:democracy, refused the offer. See also:Simson, bitterly disappointed at the outcome of his See also:mission, resigned his seat in the See also:Frankfort See also:parliament, but in the summer of the same See also:year was elected See also:deputy for See also:Konigsberg in the popular chamber of the Prussian Landtag. Here he soon made his See also:mark as one of the best orators in that See also:assembly. A member of the See also:short-lived See also:Erfurt parliament of 185o, he was again summoned to the presidential See also:chair.
On the See also:dissolution of the Erfurt assembly, Simson retired from politics, and for the next few years devoted himself exclusively to his academical and judicial duties. It was not until 1859 that he re-entered public See also:life, when he was elected deputy for Konigsberg in the See also:lower chamber of the Prussian Landtag, of which he was See also:president in 186o and 1861. In the first of these years he attained high judicial See also:office as president of the See also:court of See also:appeal at Frankfort on the See also:Oder. In 1867, having been elected a member of the constituent assembly of the See also:North See also:German Federation, he again occupied the presidential chair, as he did also in the first See also:regular See also:Diet and the Zoll-parliament which succeeded it. On 18th See also:December 187o Simson arrived at the See also:head of a deputation in the German headquarters at See also:Versailles to offer the imperial See also:crown to the See also: Simson continued as president of the Reichstag until 1894, when he retired from the chair, and in 1877 resigned his seat in the Diet, but at See also:Bismarck's urging, accepted the See also:presidency of the supreme court of See also:justice (Reichsgericht), and this high office he filled with See also:great distinction until his final retirement from public life in 1891. In 1888 the emperor See also:Frederick bestowed upon Simson the See also:order of the See also:Black See also:Eagle. His See also:political career coincides with the era of German struggles towards unity. As a politician he was one of the leaders of See also:modern Liberalism, and though always loyal when appeals were made to patriotism, such as See also:government demands for the See also:army, he remained obdurate on constitutional questions; and he resolutely opposed the reactionary policy of the Prussian Conservatives. On his retirement from the presidency of the Reichsgericht, he See also:left See also:Leipzig and made his See also:home in See also:Berlin, where he died on the 2nd of May 1899. His Life was written by his son, See also:Bernard von Simson, under the See also:title Eduard von Simson, Erinnerungen aus seinem Leben (1900). (P. A. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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