George Phillips (canon lawyer)

In the same year he married Charlotte Housselle, who belonged to a French Protestant family settled in Berlin.

Phillips formed a close friendship with his colleague K. E. Jarcke, professor at Berlin since 1825, who had entered the Catholic Church in 1824.

Jarcke having moved to Vienna in 1832, Phillips accepted in 1833 a call to Munich as counsel in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior.

In consequence of the Lola Montez affair, in connexion with which Phillips signed, with six other Munich professors, an address of sympathy with the dismissed minister Abel, he was relieved of his chair in 1847.

In 1848 he was elected deputy of a Münster district for the National Assembly of Frankfort, at which he upheld Catholic interests.