August Evelt

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August Evelt

August Evelt (born January 21, 1828 in Dorsten , † December 11, 1904 in Hechingen ) was a German judge and politician .

Life

As the son of a district court director, Evelt studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1848 he became active in the Corps Saxonia Bonn . At the age of 23 he entered the administration of justice in the Kingdom of Prussia as a trainee lawyer . In 1854 he came to Hechingen as a court assessor and assistant judge. The Prussian Ministry of Justice brought him to Berlin as an unskilled worker in 1858 . In the province of Westphalia he was temporarily a public prosecutor's assistant in Warendorf . In 1860 he returned to the Hohenzollern Lands as a public prosecutor . In Hechingen he became district court director in 1869 and district court president in 1876. In 1887 he received the character Geh. Senior Justice Council. In 1900 he went with 72 years in pension .

In his second home he managed to have the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn run via Hechingen. That is why the city of Hechingen granted him honorary citizenship in 1865 . When the (Prussian) Hohenzollern Lands were occupied by the Württemberg Army during the German War , he confidently confronted the Federal Commissioner, Count Leutrum . In 1873 he initiated the creation of the Hohenzoller Municipal Parliament , of which he was chairman for 25 years (1874–1899).

From 1867 to 1871 he sat in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation . As a member of the Liberal Reich Party , he represented the constituency of Hohenzollern in the Reichstag (German Empire) from 1871 to 1874 .

For the constituency of Sigmaringen (Hohenzollern) Evelt belonged from 1867 to 1869 in the faction of the Right Center, from 1870 to 1873 in the faction of the Liberal Center and in 1876 non-attached to the Prussian House of Representatives .

literature

  • Ernst Raßmann: News of the life and writings of Münsterland writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. New series, Münster 1881
  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 9, 1904, Reimer, Berlin 1906
  • Wilhelm Kosch , continued by Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Francke, Bern [et al.] 1963.
  • Bernhard Mann: Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives (1867-1918). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, volume 3)
  • Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 (with picture).
  • Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 3, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 16 , 114
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 118, short biography p. 399.
  3. ^ 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. 184.
personal data
SURNAME Evelt, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evelt, August Alexander Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judges and politicians (LRP, NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorsten
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1904
Place of death Hechingen