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PAUL LUDWIG ADALBERT FALK (1827-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 149 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL
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LUDWIG
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ADALBERT
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FALK (1827-1900)  ,
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German politician, was
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born at Matschkau,
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Silesia, on the loth of
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August 1827 . In 1847 he entered the Prussian
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state service, and in 1853 became public prosecutor at
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Lyck . In 1858 he was elected a
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deputy, joining the Old Liberal party . In 1868 he became a privy-councillor in the
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ministry of
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justice . In 1872 he was made
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minister of
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education, and in connexion with
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Bismarck's policy of the Kultur-kampf he was responsible for the famous May
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Laws against the Catholics (see
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GERMANY:
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History) . In 1879 his position became untenable, owing to the
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death of
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Pius IX. and the
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change of German policy with regard to the Vatican, and he resigned his
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office, but retained his seat in the Reichstag till 1882 . He was then made
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president of the supreme
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court of justice at
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Hamm, where he died in 'goo .

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