Friedrich August Mahla

Friedrich August Mahla (born July 26, 1829 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † December 26, 1913 there ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Mahla took as a student of law at the University of Heidelberg on the Palatine uprising of 1849 in part why he the Swiss fled exile. As early as 1848 he had become a member of the old Heidelberg fraternity Franconia . He lived in Lausanne until 1854 . In 1854 he passed his exams and in 1859 took over his father's law firm in Landau. In 1883 he became a member of the Reichstag for the National Liberal Party in the Reichstag constituency of Palatinate (Bavaria) 2 . Mahla was honorary mayor of the city of Landau in the Palatinate from 1887 to 1904. The city of Landau made him an honorary citizen in 1904 ; it was the city's first grant of honorary citizenship. The women's rights activist Elisabeth Mahla was his granddaughter.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the Reichstag. 5th legislative period, III. Session 1883. Berlin 1883, p. 161 ( digitized version ). Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the Reichstag. 5th legislative period, 4th session 1884. Volume 3, Berlin 1884, p. 29 ( digitized version )
2. ^ Hans Blinn: The Social Democratic Party of Germany in the city of Landau in the Palatinate. Landau 1966, p. 124.
3. ^ City of Landau in the Palatinate: Honorary Citizen Accessed on August 5, 2016

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 10.
• Hans Ziegler: Friedrich August Mahla. A contribution to the history of the Palatinate uprising. In: Palatinate home sheets. Volume 11, 1963, No. 5, pp. 33-35.

Web links

• Biography of Friedrich August Mahla . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)