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

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