August Walter (politician)

Georg Ludwig August Walter (born December 10, 1827 in Boizenburg , † March 28, 1888 in Dresden ) was a German businessman and politician ( German Progressive Party ). He was a member of the German Reichstag and the Saxon Landtag .

Life

August Walter was born as the younger son of Pastor Gottlob Walter (1800–1871) and his wife Dorothea Marie Luise, born in Saxony. Sperling (1800–1845), a Mecklenburg pastor's daughter, was born. He spent his childhood and youth in Boizenburg and Waren (Müritz) , where his father had taken over a pastor's position in 1835, received private lessons from his father, completed commercial training in Grabow from 1842 and then worked as a clerk in various industries. In 1853 he was the accountant of the leather industrialist Daniel Beck in Döbeln , in 1855 he was tenant of a paper mill in Nossen and then settled in Dresden in 1859. He was the owner of the Schilling & Walter lighting business in Dresden .

In 1862 Walter was one of the founders of the municipal association. From 1865 to 1870 he was city councilor of Dresden and during the participation of the deputy chairman Wilhelm Schaffrath in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation from February 1867 to 1869 Walter held the post of second vice chairman on an interim basis. From 1867 he was chairman of the Dresden trade association and later also chairman of the suburb of all Saxon trade associations. He was one of the initiators of the Saxon trade shows. From 1869 to 1885 he represented the constituency of Dresden 1 in the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament. From January 1877 to July 1878 and from October 1881 to October 1884 he was also a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Saxony 10 ( Nossen , Döbeln ).

In 1881 Walter is named as the owner of the Wettinhöhe in the Lößnitz .

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 handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 487-488.

Web links

• Literature about August Walter in the state bibliography MV
• Georg Ludwig August Walter in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of August Walter . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)