German politician and leader of the National Liberal party, born on the 26th of June 1854 at Wolsag in the Black Forest. He began his career in as a lawyer at Mannheim. From 1885 to 1892 he was a deputy in the Baden Diet, and from 1893, with brief interruptions, a member of the Reichstag. In 1905 the National Liberal party elected him as president of the party. In the Reichstag he enjoyed a high reputation as a speaker, and he exercised an eminent influence on the course of politics. He died on the 1st of July 1917 at Mannheim.
