Albert Traeger

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Albert Traeger
Albert Traeger, 1863
A few weeks before his death, the 82-year-old Traeger headed the opening of the newly elected Reichstag on February 7, 1912 as President of the Age
Unveiling of the grave monument for Albert Traeger in the Dreifaltigkeitskirchhof II (1912)
Memorial plaque in Naumburg , Herrenstrasse, with different dates of life

Christian Gottfried Albert Traeger (* 12. June 1830 in Augsburg ; † 26. March 1912 in Charlottenburg ) was Privy Councilor and from 1874 until his death nearly four decades as a member of the governing bourgeois - left-liberal parties parliamentarians in the German Empire , which also worked as a writer and journalist.

Life

Traeger was born as the son of an editor in Augsburg . The family moved to Naumburg in 1838 , where the father initially headed a commercial business, but died in 1844. After graduating from the Domgymnasium , Traeger studied law and political science in Halle and Leipzig from 1848 to 1851 . In 1862 he became a lawyer and notary in Kölleda . In 1867 Traeger married the 26-year-old Caroline Ritter from Magdeburg . With her he fathered three children, of whom the couple lost a son in 1872. His wife died in 1873 at the age of 32. After her death Albert Traeger moved with the two remaining daughters to Nordhausen on November 10, 1875 , and in 1891 to Berlin. In 1896 he received the title of Counselor and in 1908 that of a Privy Councilor of Justice .

Traeger was 1874-1878 and 1881-1887 in the constituency Grünberg - Freystadt in Lower Silesia and 1890-1912 in the Oldenburg constituency II ( Ammerland , Wesermarsch , Friesland ) for the German Progressive Party , the German Liberal Party , the Liberal People's Party and finally for the Progressive People's Party Member of the German Reichstag . On February 7, 1912, as senior president , he chaired the opening session of the 13th German Reichstag .

Traeger was friends with Eugen Richter and connected by his convictions and was in correspondence with Ludwig Windthorst . Traeger also emerged as a writer and journalist. Among other things, he wrote poems and novels for the magazines Die Gartenlaube and the Berliner Tageblatt . In 1870, like Emanuel Geibel , he represented a German national war poetry. As editor of the yearbook German Art in Pictures and Songs from 1865 to 1886, he adapted to the taste of the Wilhelminian era .

His poems, first published in Leipzig in 1858, reached their 18th edition in 1911. His market-leading anthologies Voices of Love (1861), German Songs in Volkes Herz und Mund (1864) and Songs, Ballads, Romances, harmoniously combined with the visual arts (1871) , were created in Kölleda . His poetry has been criticized by Arno Holz . His short stories and social sketches went rather unnoticed.

Traeger was buried in the Trinity Cemetery II in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Honors

The Traegerstrasse in the Berlin district of Schöneberg and the Albert-Traeger-Strasse in Kölleda and Nordhausen were named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Poems . Keil, Leipzig 1858 (19th edition Union, Stuttgart 1909)
  • Transitions . CF Winter, Leipzig and Heidelberg 1860
  • German art in pictures and songs. Original contributions by German painters, poets and musicians . Klinkhardt Verlag, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna 1865–1884
  • 1870. Six poems of time . Lipperheide, Berlin 1870
  • Poems . Publisher of Ernst Keil's successor. 17th increased edition 1892
  • Greetings to the Berliner Tageblatt . In: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary German History - 1872–1897. Anniversary font . Ed. by the editorial staff of the Berliner Tageblatt , Rudolf Mosse , Berlin 1897, p. 195

literature

Web links

Commons : Albert Traeger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Albert Traeger  - Sources and full texts

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nordwest Zeitung , edition of February 13, 1982, supplement: Oldenburger Nachrichten .
personal data
SURNAME Traeger, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Traeger, Christian Gottfried Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret judicial council and politician (DFP, FVP, FVp), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1912
Place of death Charlottenburg