Carl Herz (21 December 1831 – 8 May 1897, Aschaffenburg[1]) was a German lawyer, and, between 1871 and 1883, Member of Parliament (Reichstagsabgeordneter).
[2] This was followed by a period of educational tours ("Bildungsreisen") abroad, which took in France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, North Germany and Denmark.
[1] Late in 1869, ahead of the 1870 session, he was elected to the lower house of the Bavarian parliament, sitting as a member of the recently founded Bavarian Progressive Party ("Bayerische Fortschrittspartei"),[4] and representing the Weißenburg (Middle Franconia) electoral district.
From March 1871 Herz was able to combine his Bavarian parliamentary duties in Munich with membership of the newly established National Parliament ("Reichstag") in Berlin, again as a member of the Progressive Party ("Deutsche Fortschrittspartei" / DFP).
[3] Between 1871 and 1883, when he resigned his mandate in the national parliament for the last time, he represented an unusually disparate succession of electoral districts:[3]