August Penzig

August Gottwerth Penzig (born June 8, 1826 in Altenburg , † March 4, 1896 in Menton ) was a German businessman and politician ( National Liberal Party ).

Live and act

The son of the Prießnitz pastor Johann August Penzig (1792-1826) received a private school education. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked as a merchant in a wholesaler in Meerane . He was a member of the Chemnitz Chamber of Commerce . In 1873 he left for health reasons his shares to the existing shareholder , the company under the company A.G. Penzig successors continue led, and retired as reindeer into private life. Penzig had lived in Dresden since 1876 and had been a member of the board of directors of the Saxon Bank in Dresden since March 1878 .

Penzig was politically involved as a city councilor , in the city ​​council and as deputy mayor of Meerane. Penzig was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament from 1866 to 1869 as a deputy member of the 14th municipal constituency. He was then from 1869 to 1881 a member of the 14th urban constituency. From January 1877 to July 1878, Penzig was a representative of the 9th Saxon constituency ( Freiberg - Hainichen ) and from October 1884 to February 1887 as a representative of the 15th Saxon constituency ( Frankenberg - Mittweida ) also a member of the Reichstag in Berlin .

Penzig was the owner of the royal Saxon memorial cross and the imperial war commemorative coin for the Franco-German War of 1870/71 .

literature

• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical manual. (= Photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , Volume 5.) Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 439.

Web links

• August Penzig in the database of members of the Reichstag