Carl Bernhard Bacon

Seal mark Bernhard Speck - Mayor - Advocat (Lawyer) & Notary - Neustädtel

Carl Bernhard Speck (born January 18, 1831 in Reichenbach , † March 4, 1905 in Neustädtel ) was a German lawyer and conservative politician . He was the mayor of the Erzgebirge mountain town of Neustädtel and a member of the Saxon state parliament .

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The son of the legal advisor and magistrate Karl Heinrich Speck in Reichenbach was initially taught by a private tutor until 1844. After visiting the Prince's School Grimma he studied from April 1851 at the University of Leipzig the law . In March 1854 he passed his law university examination. He completed his practical preparatory service with his brother-in-law, the Werzeit lawyer Adolph Temper and at the Werdau Justice Office. After he had passed his second state law examination in December 1855, he took up a position as a recorder at the Werdau and Klingenthal court offices . In January 1857 he became an actuary at the Schneeberg District Court , where he was appointed as a lawyer in January 1862. As a lawyer he settled in Neustädtel in 1862, where he took over the office of mayor in the same year. From 1868 he also took on the duties of a notary .

From 1877 to 1895 he represented the 41st rural constituency in the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament . From 1881 he acted as deputy second secretary, from 1885 to 1895 as first secretary of the chamber. He resigned his office as mayor of Neustädtel in June 1900 and went into retirement. In March 1901 he also finished his notary's office. Until then he was a member of the Disciplinary Court for Notaries at the Zwickau Disciplinary Chamber. In 1901 he was appointed to the judiciary .

Speck was a long-time member of the district assembly and the district committee of the Schwarzenberg district administration as well as deputy chairman of the district committee of the Schneeberg district. In his hometown Neustädtel he was honored for his work by being made an honorary citizen .

literature

• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952. Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2001, p. 129.
• 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 , p. 471.

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