Christian Gottlieb Riedel

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Christian Gottlieb Riedel (before 1873)

Christian Gottlieb Riedel (born January 31, 1804 in Luptin near Zittau, † September 30, 1882 in Zittau ) was a German farmer and liberal politician. He was a member of the Reichstag and the Saxon Landtag .

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The son of a landowner attended elementary school in Oberullersdorf from 1809 to 1816 . Subsequently he devoted himself to agriculture. At first he managed his parents' estate, but from 1825 that of his in-laws, which he then took over. From 1834 to 1877 he was a landowner in Kleinschönau near Zittau .

For the first time he was elected in 1842 as deputy member of the 21st rural electoral district in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament. From 1848 he held the regular mandate of the electoral district. On May 26, 1848, he submitted a petition , which he had been instrumental in initiating and supported by 4,000 eligible voters from Upper Lusatia , which called for, among other things, the repeal of the Upper Lusatian provincial constitution, the Saxon bicameral system and a democratization of the right to vote. After the electoral reform of November 1848 , he was a member of the state parliaments in 1849 and 1849/50 as a representative of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd electoral districts in the 1st Chamber.

After the old electoral law of 1833 had been restored, he resumed his mandate in the Second Chamber in 1850, which he was to keep until his death. Until 1869 he represented the 21st rural constituency, then the 1st rural constituency. Together with only two other members ( Christian Gottlieb Medicke and Gustav Woldemar Kretzschmar ) he voted against the legality of the reactivated meeting of the estates in 1850/51. In the 1850s and 1860s, as a representative of the left-liberal democratic opposition, he was largely politically isolated. During this time, he consistently pushed for the restoration of the Provisional Suffrage of November 15, 1848 . After the electoral reform of 1868 he became one of the leading representatives of the German Progressive Party in the Saxon state parliament. Between 1867 and 1871 he was a member of the constituent and regular Reichstag of the North German Confederation . He advocated the independence of the Progress Party from other national liberal efforts.

From 1835 to 1872, Riedel was consistently the community elder or community chairman of Kleinschönau. In 1843 he was the founder of the first agricultural association in Zittau and the surrounding area. From 1863 to 1877 he was chairman of the district poor association he co-founded. He was also a full member of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Credit Association and a member of the Upper Lusatian Provincial Parliament . He also belonged to the three circles of the Friedrich August Freemason Lodge in Zittau .

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. 450–451.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 450–451.
  2. ^ A b Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 122
  3. ^ Josef Matzerath: Aspects of the history of the Saxon state parliament - presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 49
personal data
SURNAME Riedel, Christian Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DFP), MdR, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Luptin near Zittau
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1882
Place of death Zittau