Moritz Klotz

Moritz Klotz (6 August 1813 – 11 August 1892) was a Berlin judge who became a politician in Prussia and, after 1871, in Germany.

His unusually long political career provides a line of continuity between the idealistic liberalisms of 1848 and the political liberalism that manifested itself in Germany after unification.

Life Klotz was born into a Protestant family in Potsdam during the closing years of the Napoleonic Wars. He attended secondary school (Gymnasium) in Potsdam and then went on to study jurisprudence at the university in nearby Berlin between 1831 and 1834. He was articled in 1836, and in 1840 he had was appointed a junior judge (Kammergerichtsassessor) in the second Berlin district court, Between 1877 and 1879 he served as the first vice-president of the parliament.