Daniel Raht

(Joseph Martin) Daniel Raht (born March 10, 1823 in Wiesbaden , † October 16, 1900 in Weilburg ) was a Nassau lawyer and politician ( Nassau Progressive Party , German Progressive Party ). From 1861 to 1866 he was a member of the second chamber of the Nassau Landtag and from 1864 President there.

Life and education

After attending high school in Weilburg 1837-1841 studied Daniel Raht to 1843 at the university- Heidelberg and then at the University of Goettingen law and put 1844 there his degree from. From 1845 to 1846 he was an accessist at the court and appeal court in Dillenburg and then at the same court official accessist until 1847. He then moved to Hachenburg in the same position for two years , where he was promoted to official procurator in 1849. In 1850 he was dismissed from the civil service, but in 1853 he was reinstated as official procurator. In 1863 he was appointed court court procurator in Dillenburg and judiciary. From 1873 he worked as a lawyer and from 1898 at the latest as a notary .

politics

In 1861 he was elected to the second chamber of the Nassau estates in a by-election for constituency I (Dillenburg) in the group of landowners. He defended this mandate in the elections of 1863, in which he appeared for the newly founded liberal Nassau Progressive Party. From 1864 to 1866 he was the last president of the second chamber of the Nassau estates until the annexation by Prussia .

Daniel Raht was a founding member of the Nassau Progress Party and at the beginning of 1863 co-author of the party program. He campaigned for liberal reforms, the return to the constitution of 1848 and the establishment of a German nation-state.

From 1886 to 1892 Daniel Rath represented the constituency of Oberlahnkreis in the electoral group of the larger landowners in the Nassau municipal council . From 1886 to 1900 he was also a member of the district committee of the Wiesbaden administrative district . In the municipal council, Daniel Raht was committed to maintaining the Nassau stick book .

family

Daniel Raht was the son of the President of the Higher Appeal Court and member of the Nassau state parliament (Johann) Adolph (Andreas) Raht (born June 11, 1789 in Rennerod; † November 26, 1858 in Hochheim am Main) and his wife Josephine, née Neuchâtel († July 6, 1826 ), who married Adolph Raht on May 16, 1822.

Daniel Raht married his wife Julie Gottliebe Georgine Bertha, née Wimpf (born August 28, 1835 in Ahausen) on August 21, 1854 in Massenheim.

literature

• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 300.
• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , no.192.
• Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , p. 262.

Web links

• Raht, Joseph Martin Daniel. Hessian biography. (As of March 10, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).