Friedrich Jost

Friedrich Jost (born November 22, 1862 in Bermuthshain ; † May 18, 1931 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Hessian politician ( HBB ) and a member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse .

education and profession

Friedrich Jost was a son of the small farmer Balthasar Jost and his wife Barbara nee. Kimpel. He initially trained as a blacksmith with his grandfather Johannes Kimpel and from 1883 worked as a wood turner and manufacturer of spinning wheels . From 1886 he made the first skis in his workshop in Vogelsberg . After 1921 he worked in the gravestone trade and, as a stonemason, created several war memorials in the Vogelsberg.

politics

On June 7, 1902, Friedrich Jost was elected mayor of Bermuthshain and was confirmed in this office in the 1911 and 1919 elections. During his tenure, the first aqueduct was built in the village from 1909 to 1910 and the land consolidation in the Bermuthshain district from 1909 to 1928 . In the mayoral election on June 28, 1925, he was defeated by the opposing candidate Otto Ernst August Pfannstiel. Due to irregularities, this election was declared invalid by the Lauterbach district office. Friedrich Jost therefore remained in office until February 1926, but decided not to run again when the election was repeated.

Friedrich Jost was also a member of the Lauterbach district assembly and was also a member of a commission for the improvement of the Hutweiden in Vogelsberg.

In the state election of November 27, 1921, he was elected to the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse for the Hessian Farmers' Union. Until his death he remained a member of the state parliament for the Lauterbach constituency for three electoral terms. His successor in the state parliament was Friedrich Wilhelm Stein .

Web links

• Biography of Friedrich Jost
• Jost, Friedrich. Hessian biography. (As of October 4, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).