Emil Cuno

Emil Cuno (born December 7, 1805 in Colditz ; † August 26, 1859 in Wermsdorf ) was a German lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Saxon State Parliament and President of the Second Chamber.

Live and act

The son of the judicial officer Friedrich Cuno in Colditz received his first school education until 1818 in Görnitz. After a further visit to the Prince's School St. Afra in Meissen , he studied at the University of Leipzig the law . As further legal training, he took a job in the judicial offices in Dresden and Grossenhain , so that he was able to take his second state examination in 1828. As a result he settled down as a lawyer and city judge in Schönheide in the Ore Mountains . Three years later he took over the office of city judge in the neighboring Eibenstock . When the city ceded jurisdiction to the state, he became an official clerk at the Eibenstock district court. As a representative of the 12th municipal electoral district, he was elected to the IInd Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament in 1836.

In 1838 Cuno became an assessor at the Zwickau Court of Appeal and thus rose to the higher civil service. In 1840 he was appointed district administrator of Freiberg , but in 1843 he returned to Zwickau as a councilor of appeal. When political associations arose in various places in Saxony in the revolutionary year of 1848, he took part in the founding of the Zwickau Citizens Association without supporting its orientation towards the republic. He moved into the state parliament of 1849/50, which was elected according to a liberalized suffrage, with the support of the German Association . The moderate liberal was elected chairman of the state chamber in a vote against Hermann Adolph Klinger to succeed the previous liberal chamber president Adolf Ernst Hensel , who was arrested after the dissolution of the state parliament on April 30, 1849 and the suppression of the Dresden May uprising . He held this post until the government under Ferdinand Zschinsky dismissed the state parliament in 1850 and restituted the parliament according to the electoral law of 1831. Cuno thereupon renounced further mandates.

He took up activities at the Higher Appeal Court in Dresden and the Leipzig Court of Appeal. He died in Wermsdorf in 1859, where he was staying for treatment.

Fonts

• The provisionally established public criminal proceedings in Saxony , Zwickau 1849

literature

• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 61f
• Josef Matzerath: Cuno, Emil . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor Tauchnitz, Carl Heinrich Heydenreich, Voigtlandischer Juristen Verein: Journal for justice and administration, initially for the Kingdom of Saxony. Bernhard Tauchnitz. jun. Leipzig, 1839, p. 288, online , accessed on April 5, 2010.