Otto Agricola

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Otto Ludwig Agricola

Otto Ludwig Agricola (born February 22, 1829 in Gotha ; † December 27, 1902 in Kreuznach ) was a German administrative lawyer . He was district administrator and member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation .

Life

Career

Agricola was the son of the Saxon senior consistory councilor Friedrich Johann Agricola and his wife Louise nee Perthes. He attended the Illustre grammar school in his hometown until 1847 and graduated in Erfurt in 1852 . In 1847/48 he studied natural sciences (philosophy) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and from 1849 to 1851 law at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , in Bonn, at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and in Gotha. In Bonn he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in 1847 . After that he entered the Gothic and in 1853 the Prussian civil service, became an ausculator and in 1855 government advisor . In 1858 he became a government assessor with the government in Danzig . From 1859 to 1860 he was an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and from January 20 to June 3, 1860 he took over the administration of the Schweidnitz District Office . He then worked as an unskilled worker in the Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province in Koblenz and, from October 4, 1861, as a district administrator in the Kreuznach district . From February 8, 1862 until his death on December 27, 1902, he was district administrator of the Kreuznach district and thus to this day the district administrator with the longest term in this district.

In 1867 he was a member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the constituency of Koblenz  4 ( Kreuznach , Simmern ) and the Free Conservative Association . From 1867 to 1870 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , also for the constituency of Koblenz 4.

family

He was married twice and had five children. On May 15, 1862 he married Therese Elmire (Emmy) nee Scherzer (1840–1866), daughter of the landowner and administrator in Gotha Martin Heinrich Scherzer. On March 4, 1869, he married Karoline Perthes (1840–1923), the daughter of pastor Friedrich Matthias Perthes, in Lübeck .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 54, short biography p. 370.
  2. ^ Krumm, LW: The district administrators of the Kreuznach district in the 19th century . In: Heimatkundliche Schriftenreihe des Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Vol. 15 (1983), pp. 67-106
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 160.
  4. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne : Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 46; for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 764-767.
  5. ↑ Order according to the manual about the Royal Prussian Court and State 1903, p. 688
  6. ↑ Honorary Citizen of the City of Bad Kreuznach, In: bad-kreuznach.de

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SURNAME Agricola, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agricola, Otto Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant, district administrator and member of the Reichstag
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1902
Place of death Kreuznach