Albin Kutschbach

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Albin Hugo Kutschbach (born March 24, 1853 in Leipzig ; † November 16, 1936 there ) was a writer, print shop owner, diplomat and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Kutschbach was born the son of Johann Gottfried Kutschbach (1811–1875) and his wife Emilie Alwine (1823–1862). He attended the first citizen school, the secondary school of the first order and the commercial school in Leipzig and later also studied economics here . He first entered his father's business, but sold it after his father's death and made long trips.

In the Balkans he took part in various military undertakings, including the occupation campaign in Bosnia in 1878, where he became a brigadier general .

Back in Germany, Kutschbach was the editor of various newspapers and publisher of the Allgemeine Deutsche Exportblatt and the Chemnitzer Zeitung, as well as the owner of a book printer in Chemnitz . He was also the author of historical and political works, u. a. published in 1929 The Fire of Europe and 1936 Under the Sun of the Bosporus , about which it says in the introduction: "The novel snatches the old Constantinople from oblivion, and it can claim to be historically not without value."

From 1881 to 1884 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency Kingdom of Saxony 20 ( Marienberg - Zschopau ) in the parliamentary group of the Liberal Association .

He then worked as the private secretary of the Romanian king and on behalf of the Foreign Office as a diplomat in the Balkans. Through this experience, he was generally regarded as a Balkan expert and campaigned for better economic relations between Germany and the Balkans.

Kutschbach was also a member of the Freemason Lodge Psyche in Opole .

In his work A City Tour - Memories of an Old Leipziger , he describes old Leipzig, its inhabitants and life in the city in great detail. In his honor, the Kutschbachweg in Leipzig-Lindenau was named after him in 1937.

Fonts

  • Lassalle's death . E. Schmeitzner, Chemnitz 1880
  • Sophie Solützeff - F. Lassalle . Schmeitzner, Chemnitz 1881
  • The final act in the Balkan drama . German letter newspaper company, Leipzig-Naunhof 1912
  • The Serbs in the Balkan War 1912-1913 and in the war against the Bulgarians . Franckh, Stuttgart 1913
  • Memories of an old Leipziger's youth . HFA Timm, Leipzig 1926
  • The seat of fire in Europe . E. Haberland, Leipzig 1929
  • History of the cloth shearers guild in Leipzig . Bielefeld, Leipzig 1931
  • Under the Bosphorus sun . Payne, Leipzig 1936

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. the dedication in the "Jugenderinnerungen eines Alten Leipzigers".
  2. ^ Kutschbach, Albin Hugo in the database of members of the Reichstag
  3. ^ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon , revised and expanded new edition of the edition from 1932, Munich 2003, 951 pages, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3
  4. ↑ A city tour - memories of an old Leipziger (online)
  5. ^ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Straßeennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 130

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personal data
SURNAME Kutschbach, Albin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kutschbach, Albin Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, print shop owner and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1936
Place of death Leipzig