August Lucius

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August Lucius (born January 28, 1816 in Erfurt , † October 2, 1900 in Düsseldorf ) was a German merchant, landowner and member of parliament.

Life

He was Sebastian Lucius' first child and attended grammar school in Erfurt and secondary school in Elberfeld . He was an apprentice in Frankfurt am Main and then spent five years in England and America . He started out as a merchant, initially supporting his brother Ferdinand Lucius in his parents' company, Joh. Anton Lucius . From 1842 he became a farmer at the Stödten manor near Straussfurt in Thuringia , and later at the Lispenhausen manor near Bebra . He later moved to Düsseldorf. Lucius traveled a lot, even on distant continents. He liked to paint. The son Sebastian was also a painter.

As a member of the German Center Party , Lucius sat in the Reichstag (German Empire) for the constituency of Düsseldorf 4 (city of Düsseldorf) from 1882 to 1890 . He was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1886 to June 20, 1891. He was friends with the center politician Ludwig Windthorst .

literature

  • Robert von Lucius : The Erfurt family Lucius . In: Erfurter Heimatbrief No. 37 (1978), pp. 28-37.
  • August Lucius: Be prepared for everything except turning back - Erfurt, Havana, Rome , ed. by Robert von Lucius. Wolff Verlag , Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-941461-32-1 .

Web links

Commons : The Lucius Family  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 254 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 786-789.
personal data
SURNAME Lucius, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and landowner; MdHdA, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1900
Place of death Dusseldorf