August Eckardt

Friedrich August Eckardt (* 6. April 1871 in Lößnitz ; † 27. July 1938 in Stralsund ) was a German geologist , member of the Saxon parliament 1919-1933 and 1932-1933 briefly the President of the Parliament .

Life

The son of Karl Moritz Eckardt (1834-1897), since 1870 deacon in Lößnitz, spent his childhood in Lugau , where his father in 1875, the parish had begun. Prepared for his Abitur by his father , he was taught in Leipzig in 1888 and in the Princely School of Grimma in 1889 . Eckardt then studied geology from 1889 at the Freiberg Mining Academy . After working in Russia , he managed various coal mines in Saxony . In 1909 Friedrich August Eckardt studied again for a year at the Technical University of Dresden , where he wrote his doctoral thesis on drying lignite . From 1911 Eckardt was managing director of the newly founded mining association Zwickau .

In 1919 Eckardt was elected to the Saxon People's Chamber for the DNVP , where he particularly represented mining interests. In the election as President of the Landtag on November 24, 1932, Friedrich August Eckardt was elected with only 40 votes in the runoff election because the SPD and KPD , which together already had 45 votes, did not vote for the SPD candidate Kurt Weckel as one because of their differences . Eckardt, whose parliamentary group only had 10 seats , benefited from the NSDAP votes that had supported their own candidate Walter Dönicke in the first ballot . When the Landtag was reorganized after the " seizure of power " by the NSDAP, Eckardt was replaced as Landtag President by Dönicke.

Eckardt, who belonged to the Saxon state parliament from 1919 until its dissolution in 1933, withdrew from politics in 1933. He lived in Lichtentanne until 1936 , after which he lived with one of his daughters in Stralsund , where he died in 1938.

Works

• The development of coal mining in the Erzgebirge basin , Förster & Borries, Zwickau 1938
• The coal mining in Zwickauer u. Lugau-Oelsnitzer Revier , Förster & Borries, Zwickau
• The drying of brown coal and its profitability , Halle (Saale) 1913
• The economic reconstruction , Dresden 1919

Web links

• Josef Matzerath: Eckardt, Friedrich August . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Literature by and about August Eckardt in the catalog of the German National Library