Emil Mumssen
Emil Max Gotthold Augustus Mumssen (born August 21, 1871 in Hamburg ; † December 24, 1939 there ) was a German lawyer and Hamburg senator.
Life
Mumssen was born as the son of Wilhelm Mumssen (1835-1882), a senior teacher at the Johanneum School of Academics . He grew up in Hamburg and also attended the Johanneum, which he completed with the Abitur. Mumssen studied law in Tübingen , Leipzig and Berlin before settling in Hamburg as a lawyer in 1895. He worked for the law firm Mumssen & Grallert for over 10 years before he became in-house counsel for the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft in 1906 . In 1907 Mumssen was elected to the Hamburg parliament by the notables , joining the Left Center parliamentary group. He was the only member of that faction ever to be elected to the Senate. During his tenure as a citizen, Mumssen was also elected a member of the Higher Administrative Court . On February 19, 1909, he was elected to the Senate for the late Johann Otto Stammann . Mumssen left the Senate during the First World War in April 1918 to become director of the Hamburger Hochbahn . Carl Wilhelm Petersen was elected as his successor to the Senate. Mumssen worked as director of the Hochbahn until his early retirement in 1933.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life dates can be found in the manuscript Citizenship Members 1859-1958 in the State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- ↑ Membership directory of the Hamburg citizenship, 1907
- ^ Adolf Buehl : From the old council chamber: Memories 1905 - 1918, Hamburg 1973, p. 21
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| SURNAME | Must, Emil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mumssen, Emil Max Gotthold Augustus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator and director of the elevated railway |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1939 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |