August Kuntzen

August Wilhelm Sigmund Kuntzen (born October 8, 1807 in Westerbrak , † January 29, 1885 in Braunschweig ) was a lawyer, railway director and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Kuntzen attended grammar school in Braunschweig and the university in Göttingen . After studying law , however, he switched to administration and was employed by the tax and finance authorities. After that he was a member of the management of the Braunschweigische Eisenbahnen for 30 years and after the sale of these state railways he retired in 1871. From 1869 he was a member of the state assembly in Braunschweig and from 1875 a member of the state synod and the city council, as well as a member of the church council and provisional for many years.

From 1877 to 1881 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency Braunschweig 2 ( Helmstedt , Wolfenbüttel ) and the National Liberal Party .

literature

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.
Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 357 .

Web links

August Kuntzen in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of August Wilhelm Kuntzen . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

^ 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. 279.

personal data
SURNAME	Kuntzen, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kuntzen, August Wilhelm Sigmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, railway director and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	October 8, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Westerbrak
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 1885
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] 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. 279.