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3 unusual facts about Eugène Ricklin


Eugène Ricklin

Six autonomists newspapers were then forbidden and the leaders arrested: among them, Joseph Rossé, Hauss and Ricklin.

Before war broke out, he tirelessly worked for the peace preservation and, in 1913 and 1914, went with the abbot Haegy to the interparliamentary peace conferences of Berne and Basel where he met again other active pacifists like Jean Jaurès.

In 1900, the Bezirkstag sent him to the Landesausschuss (Alsace-Lorraine's parliament) in Strasbourg, in place of the deseded Anton Cassal from Ferrette and, in 1903, he sat in the Reichstag in Berlin, having been elected deputy of the constituency of Thann-Altkirch.



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