Egmont Lucius

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Egmont Lucius (born September 13, 1814 in Braunschweig ; † December 18, 1884 ibid) was a German politician in the Duchy of Braunschweig and a member of the Braunschweig State Assembly .

Live and act

Egmont Lucius, the son of a bookseller, attended the Pro and Obergymnasium in Braunschweig and studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg from 1836 to 1839 . After completing his law degree, he worked as an auditor from 1840, then as a lawyer from 1843 and finally as a notary from 1847 and from 1853 as a higher court attorney in Braunschweig.

Revolution 1848/1849 in Braunschweig : "Modern Industries", caricature by Hans von Veltheim . The Braunschweiger politicians are depicted as banter singers : Adolf Aronheim (left), August Hollandt (center) and Egmont Lucius (right).

In addition to his professional activity, Lucius was active as a Braunschweig politician for several decades. Until the revolution of 1848/49 he belonged to the left-liberal political spectrum. He had contacts with the Communist League in the Braunschweig State Assembly and was involved in political associations during the revolution. From August 1848 he was a co-founder and board member of the democratic people's association and from December 1848 to 1851 a member of the Braunschweig regional assembly .

After the failure of the Braunschweig Democrats' Congress in 1850, he turned to the National Liberals. In 1859 he was one of the signatories of the founding program of the German National Association . He was a co-founder of the Braunschweig local group of the German National Association and its local agent until 1863.

From 1873 to 1875 he was a member of the National Liberal Party in the Braunschweig State Assembly.

meaning

Egmont Lucius is characterized as “one of the leading liberal politicians in his native city” and as one of the “outstanding bourgeois representatives” in Braunschweig during the revolutionary period of 1848/49.

literature

  • Thomas Henne: Egmont Lucius (1814-1884). Lawyer, liberal politician. In: Joachim Rückert, Jürgen Vortmann: Lower Saxony lawyers. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-18241-4 , p. 382f.
  • Christian Juranek: Against quite a while. Hans Graf von Veltheim (1818–1854): life, literature, art. Dissertation, University of Hildesheim, 2006 (esp. P. 156f .: Brief biography of Egmont Lucius) Online edition
  • Dieter Lent: Lucius, Egmont . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 391 . (with portrait daguerreotype from the revolutionary year 1848, which shows Lucius as a popular speaker)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Cf. Dieter Lent: Lucius, Egmont. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 391 .
  2. ^ A b c d Christian Juranek : Against a whole time. Hans Graf von Veltheim (1818–1854): life, literature, art. (= Dissertation, University of Hildesheim). 2006, p. 156 online edition .
personal data
SURNAME Lucius, Egmont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician in the Duchy of Braunschweig and member of the Braunschweig State Assembly
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1884
Place of death Braunschweig