Albert Hänel
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Albert Hänel was a German
Germany
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 jurist
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 and politician
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.

Biography

Hänel was born in Leipzig. He studied at Vienna
University of Vienna
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, Leipzig
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, and Heidelberg, in 1860 became a professor at Königsberg
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, and in 1863 at Kiel. One of the founders of the Liberal Party in Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
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 after the annexation of the duchies to Prussia in 1866, he was elected to the Prussian Chamber of Deputies and the Reichstag
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 of the North German Confederation
North German Confederation
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, and subsequently to the Imperial Reichstag. He became known as a leader of the so-called “Fortschrittspartei,” or Progressists, which, after the fusion with the Secessionists in 1884, was styled the “Deutschfreisinnige Partei.” Upon the breakup of the party in 1893, he represented the ‘Freisinnige Vereinigung’ (Liberal Union), but in the elections of the same year to the Reichstag he was defeated by the Social-Democratic candidate. In 1898 he was reelected.

Works

His writings include:
  • Studien zum deutschen Staatsrecht (1873-88)
  • Die Gesetzgebung des deutschen Reichs über Konsularwesen und Seeschiffahrt (1875)
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