Friedrich Wilhelm May

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Friedrich Wilhelm May (* 1820 in Polenz ; † 1905 in Dresden ) was a German farmer and liberal politician ( German Progressive Party ). He was a long-time member of the Saxon state parliament and landowner in Polenz near Neustadt in Saxony , where he worked in agriculture for several decades.

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm May came from a respected farming family in the village of Polenz, which was an independent village until 1994. His ancestors had been running an estate in Polenz on the northeastern edge of Saxon Switzerland since 1566 , which he managed alone after the death of his parents.

From 1854 to 1902 - almost half a century - he was a member of the peasantry in the Saxon state parliament , where he represented the 8th and 11th electoral district, among others. In 1894 he celebrated his 40th anniversary in parliament. He introduced various petitions to the state parliament.

At the age of 82, Friedrich Wilhelm May left the Saxon state parliament. Most recently he lived as a rentier in the Saxon state capital Dresden, where he died in retirement in 1905 at the age of 85 as one of the longest-serving members of the state parliament and was buried with full honors. At times, Johann Gottlieb Schinke , landowner in Kunnersdorf , was his deputy.

literature

  • Christian Gottlieb Riedel , a well-deserved member of the state parliament, who has been faithful and well-deserved for five and twenty years
  • 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 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder: Saxon Parliamentarians 1869–1918 , 2001, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Landtag files 1833–1918, Volume 1, C. Meinhold, Dresden, 2001.
  3. ^ State Handbook for the Free State of Saxony, 1854–1902
personal data
SURNAME May, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DFP), member of the state parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
DATE OF BIRTH 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Polenz
DATE OF DEATH 1905
Place of death Dresden