August Westphal
August Friedrich Gottfried Westphal (born November 4, 1834 in Schwerin ; † August 11, 1890 ) was a landlord and member of the German Reichstag .
Life
Westphal attended the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Schwerin. From 1835 to 1861 he worked as a practical farmer on the Meezen and Holdorf estates near Gadebusch in Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From 1861 he was the tenant of the Count of Kielmannseggschen Vorwerk Melusinenthal, which belonged to the County of Gülzow in Lauenburg .
In a by-election on September 25, 1879 for the resigned MP Friedrich Hammacher , he became a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Schleswig-Holstein 10 (Lauenburg) and the National Liberal Party . He exercised this mandate until 1884, after he was able to win the Reichstag election in 1881 despite the manipulation of District Administrator Albert von Bennigsen-Foerder .
Web links
- Westphal, August Friedrich Gottfried in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of August Westphal . 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. 114.
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| SURNAME | Westphal, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Westphal, August Friedrich Gottfried (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landlord and politician (NLP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1890 |