Ernst Emil Horst

Ernst Emil Horst (born October 5, 1843 in Graupzig ; † February 6, 1917 in Dresden ) was a German conservative politician .

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The son of the leaseholder Johann Gottlob Horst auf Graupzig with Gödelitz received his first education as private lessons. After attending secondary school in Dresden, he studied at the agricultural academy in Tharandt . He embarked on a career as an agricultural official. He leased the Rothschönberg manor and from around 1895 was the owner of the estate in Mulda with 105 hectares of land. In 1901 he was appointed to an economics councilor.

In a by -election made necessary by Gustav Hahn 's resignation, he was elected to the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament in the 17th rural constituency on January 18, 1886 , to which he belonged until his death in 1917. He was a board member of the Conservative Association in the district of Meißen and a long-standing member of the administrative board of the Agricultural Credit Association in the Kingdom of Saxony . From 1912 to 1914 he served as its chairman. He was also a member of the administrative committee of the fire insurance chamber for building insurance.

Horst died almost blind in 1917 in Dresden. Georg Andrä was elected as his successor in the Saxon state parliament in a by-election.

literature

• Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 398-399.