Alexander Zeiss
Alexander Zeiss , also Alexander Zeiss (born August 8, 1861 in Horn , † February 10, 1938 in Schwalenberg ) was a German Reformed pastor and member of the state parliament.
Life
Zeiß was the son of the pastor, painter and teacher Emil Zeiß . Alexander Zeiß became a parish assistant to his grandfather Wilhelm Zeiß in Schwalenberg in 1884. In 1885 he became a pastor there, and remained in office until his retirement in 1934.
He combined his pastoral care with social commitment. In 1895 he initiated the founding of the Christian Ziegler trade union. The Lippe workers were often hired out as migrant bricklayers. With this commitment, Zeiß earned the nickname “Ziegler Pastor”.
In 1902, Zeiß founded the Heimatschutzverein Schwalenberg and initiated the annual Heimatspiele. He also promoted education. The schools in Schwalenberg, Brakelsiek and Lothe went back to his initiative.
politics
In a by-election on March 31, 1900 in the fourth constituency of the 3rd class , he was elected to the Lippe state parliament. The non-party Zeiss received 964 or 67.6% of the votes in the constituency. Also in the following elections he won the mandate as a social liberal candidate until 1918 after the November Revolution general and equal elections were introduced. In the state parliament he joined the left-wing liberal faction of the Lippe Liberal People's Party led by Adolf Neumann-Hofer .
Honors
The school in Schwalenberg is called the Alexander-Zeiß-Grundschule.
literature
- Erich Wenneker: Zeiss, Alexander. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1592-1593.
- Jürgen Hartmann: Völkische Movement and National Socialism in Lippe until 1925; in: Lippische Mitteilungen, Vol. 60, 1991, ISSn 0342-0876, p. 153.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zeiss, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zeiss, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor and politician, MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | horn |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1938 |
| Place of death | Schwalenberg |