August Niebour

August Karl Adalbert Niebour (born January 29, 1821 in Gut Mansholt near Wiefelstede , † September 15, 1891 in Oldenburg ) was a lawyer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Niebour was the son of the court councilor and tax director Johann Conrad Niebour (1786–1849) and his wife Christiane Ernestine Wilhelmine, born. Heyn (1792-1873). He had nine siblings, including the professional officer and politician Wilhelm Niebour (1813–1895) his brother. The family lived on the Mansholt estate near Wiefelstede that the father farmed part-time.

Niebour was initially taught by private tutors and attended the old grammar school in Oldenburg from 1830 to 1837 . At the age of 16 he began to study law in Bonn and Jena . In 1840 and 1846 he passed both state exams. As a lawyer he first worked in Neuchâtel (Friesland) and then in Varel .

With the German Revolution in 1848 , Niebour began to be politically active and published a paper on the introduction of jury courts , one of the popular demands of the popular movement. Together with his brother Wilhelm, he became a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament in 1849 , both of whom represented left-wing liberal positions. Together with Dagobert Böckel , who was related to him by marriage , Niebour opposed the alliance treaty with reactionary Prussia . In 1852 he was not represented in parliament for two years. After his return, Niebour was its president from 1858 to 1861 . In the conflict with the state government, on April 17, 1861, he resigned as president of the state parliament and a little later also from his state parliament mandate.

Between 1860 and 1862 he was a city councilor in Varel and from 1862 to 1870 deputy mayor . He was also involved in the Varel Schleswig-Holstein Association and in the Workers' Education Association . After the founding of the North German Confederation , Niebour, who had actually advocated the Greater German Solution , joined the left-liberal Progress Party and in the summer of 1870 was one of the founding members of the party's central electoral committee for the 2nd Oldenburg constituency ( Jever , Brake , Westerstede , Varel , Elsfleth , land dignitaries ), to whose 1st chairman he was elected. Niebour retained this position until he moved to Oldenburg in 1879.

From October 1884 to February 1885 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg 1 ( Oldenburg , Eutin , Birkenfeld ) and the German Progressive Party . He resigned this mandate on February 11, 1885 and withdrew from politics.

family

Niebour was married to Anne Hermine Adele born in 1852. Wahn (1830–1870), daughter of auctioneer Hermann Anton Wahn and Anna Catharina born. Kruckenberg. The couple had four children, including u. a. the later President of the Higher Regional Court Eduard Niebour and the senior teacher and writer Minna Niebour .

literature

• Hans Friedl: Niebour, Johann Georg Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 514-515 ( online ).

Web links

• Niebour, August Karl Adalbert in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of August Karl Adalbert Niebour . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

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. 276.