Eduard Geiger

Eduard Geiger (born April 12, 1854 in Deutsch Krone , † February 27, 1922 in Göttingen ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

As the son of a businessman, Geiger attended grammar school in Bromberg and Küstrin . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Leipzig . In 1874 he became a member of the Leipzig fraternity of Dresdensia . He switched to the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . After the first state examination in 1877/78, he served as a one-year volunteer and retired as a secondary lieutenant. After legal clerkship in Breslau , Deutsch Krone, Küstrin and Stettin , he joined the internal administration of Prussia in 1883. He became a government assessor in Stettin and in 1893 in Aurich . In 1883 he became an estate official in the Göttingen district administration. From 1885 to 1918 he was district administrator in the district of Lehe . In 1906 he became a secret councilor and city ​​councilor .

From 1899 to 1919 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hanover for the Lehe constituency . On September 1, 1919, he resigned and Theodor Pieschel succeeded him.

Honors

• Red Eagle Order 4th Class (1897)
• Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 3rd Class (1907)

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 110-111.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , p. 360.
• Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , p. 120.