August Dennig

August Dennig (born August 1, 1805 in Pforzheim ; † September 6, 1883 there ) was a German politician and member of the Reichstag .

Live and act

August Dennig attended the Lyceum and the engineering school in Karlsruhe, then he studied for a year in Göttingen. He then traveled to Northwest Europe until 1834. After his return he took over the family-owned jewelry company. In 1840, as the successor of his late father, he also took over his timber trade and rafting with the Netherlands. From around 1861 he was President of the Pforzheim Chamber of Commerce for at least ten years. In 1871 he became a judge at the Karlsruhe-Pforzheim Commercial Court.

Dennig got into politics as a member of the Pforzheim municipal council around 1840. From 1845 to 1852 he was a member of the second chamber of Baden . In 1848 he was a member of the preliminary parliament . In 1850 he was an elected member of the Erfurt Union Parliament . In 1860 he was appointed to the first chamber of Baden, where he was president of the budget commission for many years. From 1868 to 1870 he was a member of the customs parliament . He was elected to the Reichstag from 1871 to 1874 from the constituency of Baden 9 (Durlach-Pforzheim) . He was a member of the National Liberal Party .

He was married to Luise Amalie Finkenstein, the daughter of an entrepreneur friend. They had at least one daughter named Emilie Dennig (1839-1917). She was married to August Benckiser .

literature

Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanac. 9th edition, 1871
Hermann Kalkoff (Ed.): National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual state parliaments. Publication distribution center of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917

Web links

August Dennig in the database of members of the Reichstag
August Dennig's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)
^ 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. 255.

personal data
SURNAME	Dennig, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dennig, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH	September 6, 1883
Place of death	Pforzheim

[1] Federal Archives: Members of the Pre-Parliament and the Fifties Committee (PDF file; 79 kB)

[2] 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. 255.