Anton Delius

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Anton Daniel Delius (born May 1, 1850 in Versmold ; † December 26, 1936 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a mayor and lord mayor of the city of Siegen .

Life

Anton Delius, son of the landowner Heinrich Anton Delius in Versmold, studied law and camera science at the universities of Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin after graduating from high school in Bielefeld . In 1870 he became a member of the Normannia Leipzig fraternity . After the legal trainee exam in July 1872 at the Berlin Court of Appeal and the Assessor exam in February 1877, he was appointed as a court assessor from March 1877 to represent a judge's position in Witten. In August 1877 Delius was transferred to the public prosecutor's office in Hagen and from there in March 1878 was appointed district judge in Altenkirchen.

After the death of the mayor of Siegen, Lamprecht, Delius was elected mayor on December 9th, 1881 by the city council in Siegen. After confirmation of the election on March 23, 1882 and his introduction as mayor on April 5, 1882, Delius was re-elected as mayor on December 18, 1893 and November 6, 1905 after the expiry of his terms of office by the city council. Delius, who was awarded the honorary title of mayor in 1917, retired on November 1, 1919. From 1890 to 1919 he was a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Westphalia for the constituency of Siegen and the NLP .

Honor

On the occasion of the visit of the Prussian king and German emperor Wilhelm II. To Westphalia, he granted the Siegen mayor Anton Delius the personal right to wear a gold chain of office . This chain of office was mayor Delius then on 27 January 1908 for the first time in public during a hard Diners at the premises of the company rest on the occasion of the 49th birthday of William II.

In Siegen a street was named after Anton Delius. ▼

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, p. 188.
  2. ^ The chain of office of the mayor of Siegen in the city archive ... Westfälische Rundschau from January 30, 2008, accessed on February 5, 2016

Sources and literature

  • Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 239.
  • Documentation from the City Archives of Siegen
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 188-189.
predecessor Office successor
Carl Hermann Lamprecht Mayor of Siegen
1882 - 1918 		Alfred Fissmer
personal data
SURNAME Delius, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delius, Anton Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord Mayor of the City of Siegen
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Versmold
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1936
Place of death Bad Oeynhausen