Günther Keyser

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Günther Friedrich Carl Ernst Keyser (born August 22, 1820 in Sondershausen ; † December 22, 1874 ibid) was a lawyer and politician in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . He was a member of the city council of Sondershausen, the Landtag in Sondershausen and the Reichstag of the North German Confederation .

family

Günther's father Georg Friedrich Keyser (also: Kayser; 1776–1842) was pastor in Sondershausen, archdeacon, superintendent and councilor. In addition, he was entrusted with the management of the newly founded high school in Sondershausen from 1829-1835 . Günther's mother Friederica Eleonora Christiane geb. Mönch (1788–1850) was the daughter of the unmarried Johanna Friederica Carolina Mönch (1766–1852) and Prince Christian Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, who ruled from 1758 to 1794 .

Günther had two siblings. His brother Thilo Eduard (1810–1896) studied theology and was a deacon in Sondershausen from 1840–1843. 1844-1860 he was director of the state seminar for elementary school teachers there; 1860–1890 pastor in Niederspier . Thilo was born with Marie. Married Countess von Gluszczewska (1826–1910). They had two children: Marie (1847–1944) married Schultzenstein with branched offspring, and Georg (1855–1939), whose marriage remained childless.

His brother Gustav Adolph (1807–1901) studied law and from 1830 worked in various administrative offices of the special government. 1850–1857 he was district administrator in Gehren . From the end of 1851 to 1862 he was a member of the Landtag in Sondershausen; there he counted among the conservatives. From 1862 to 1877 he was head of government (minister of state) and also head of the departments for internal and foreign affairs. In 1866 he was raised to hereditary nobility in the Schwarzburg special houses. Gustav was in his second marriage to Frieda geb. Rasch, widowed von Rüxleben (1841–1935) married. He didn't have any children.

Günther married Johanna Gabriele Friederike Busch (* 1824 in Arnstadt , † 1920 in Sondershausen), daughter of Ferdinand Benjamin Busch (* 1797) , lawyer, member of the government and 1850-1860 Vice-President of the newly established Court of Appeal in Eisenach, as well as the author of legal and bee studies . Günther's daughter Stefanie (1847–1926) became a writer; she published around 50 books and stories. She had no siblings. In her final years, Anna Kelm was her friend and neighbor.

The family was long-term friends with the high school teacher Thilo Irmisch (* 1816) , a well-known botanist, then also a regional historian and editor at Sondershäuser newspapers. Keyser was a member of the natural science association founded by Irmisch, Karl Chop and a few others at the beginning of 1863 , in which science-interested special houses met weekly for a free exchange of ideas. During the German War , he founded an association with Irmisch, his brother-in-law Hermann Busch and others, which from July to the beginning of October 1866 collected funds to support injured and sick soldiers and their families. In November 1868, together with Irmisch, his brother-in-law, the grammar school director Wilhelm Kieser and other dignitaries, he initiated a series of popular science lectures for the special houses bourgeoisie.

job

After graduating from high school in Sondershausen, Keyser studied law in Jena, Berlin and Leipzig from 1838 to 1841. He was government lawyer in Sondershausen from 1842 to 1850 and also administrator of the patrimonial court of the von Wurmb family in Großfurra . He was judicial officer in Keula from 1850 to 1852 , and in Ebeleben in 1853 . From 1853 he was the public prosecutor's representative in Sondershausen and Ebeleben. On October 1, 1854, he became a public prosecutor at the district court in Sondershausen. When the position of court director became vacant in June 1870, he moved there. He held the position until his death.

From January 1874 until his death Keyser acted as co-editor of a legal magazine that was run by his father-in-law (FB Busch) and his son Hermann Busch.

Keyser received the Schwarzburg Cross of Honor III. Class (1866) and II. Class (1871). Also in 1871 he became a knight of the 1st division of the Grand Ducal House Order of Vigilance or of the White Falcon of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and received the Prussian Crown Order III. Class.

politics

Parliament

Günther Keyser was elected to the state parliament of Sondershausen for the electoral period from December 29, 1851. This was the first Landtag in the country's history to emerge from the same general secret direct elections, a fruit of the revolution of 1848. Its main task was to adapt the liberal state constitution drawn up in the previous Landtag to the restorative demands of the Federal Reaction Decision.

At the beginning, the group of MPs around the liberal 'March Minister' and MP Friedrich Chop attempted to weaken the group around the Conservative MP (and Chop's predecessor) Albert von Holleuffer by means of election contestation. Günther Keyser belonged to von Holleuffer's group, which narrowly won the decisive vote (9 against 8 votes), whereupon Chop resigned from the government office and state parliament mandate. After this weakening of the liberal side in government and parliament, the restructuring of the constitution proceeded consistently.

According to the amended constitution, a new two-class electoral law was adopted in which the highest taxed persons were represented more strongly than the general voters and where - as "an institution that has not yet been met" - there should be four members of parliament jointly appointed for life by the prince and state parliament . Due to the new constitutional situation, the electoral period was ended on May 23, 1853, the state parliament was dissolved and a new election was scheduled.

For the new electoral term (November 28, 1853 to the end of 1855, with the first session from November 28, 1853 to March 25, 1854) Günther Keyser was elected to the group of general voters. This state parliament elected him on December 2nd as its vice-president. In October 1854 Keyser's mandate expired because of his appointment as prosecutor; he decided not to submit a new application.

Imperial politics

Keyser belonged to a 'fleet committee' that called for patriotic contributions to a German (Prussian) navy in August 1861.

In the election for the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation on February 12, 1867, Keyser applied for the constituency of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Thanks to the support from the special houses subordinate , in particular also from the local workers' association, he narrowly missed the required absolute majority and easily reached it in the 'shortlist' (runoff) on March 2nd. In the election for the ordinary Reichstag on August 31, 1867, he immediately achieved an absolute majority. As a member of the Reichstag, he was also a member of the Customs Parliament , which met from May 1868.

Keyser initially joined the faction of the center, later the Free Conservative faction. He resigned from the Reichstag on February 16, 1870.

City council

Keyser was elected city councilor in Sondershausen on November 11, 1867 (in direct public election according to a three-class right to vote ). He held this office until his death.

literature

  • The German. Sondershäuser newspaper together with government and intelligence paper for the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. [Sondershausen: Eupel.] (Incomplete) digitized version .
  • State manual for the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 1874. Weimar: Böhlau 1874. Digitized .
  • Negotiations of the state parliament of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Meeting minutes. Digital copies .
  • German Reichstag: manuals and minutes. Digital copies .
  • Address books from Sondershausen. Digital copies .
  • Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 287.
  • Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and a biographical manual (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Vol. 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 193, short biography p. 425.
  • Thuringian Pastors' Book, Volume 2: Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. 1997. ISBN 3768641481 . (here: p. 216f.)
  • Jochen Lengemann (collaboration: Karl-Heinz Becker, Jens Beger, Christa Hirschler, Andrea Ziegenhardt): Landtag and regional representative of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 1843–1923. Biographical manual. 1998. ISBN 3437353683 . (P. 68–76; P. 202–204: Short biography Günther Keyser, with portrait; P. 310: genealogical graphics.)
  • Jochen Lengemann: Descendants from illegitimate relationships of ruling Schwarzburg counts and princes. Episode 1: Prince Christian Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Johanna Mönch and the Keyser / von Keyser family. In special houses contributions. Püstrich. Journal for Schwarzburg culture and regional history. Issue 9, 2007, pp. 148–157 and Issue 12, 2011, pp. 196f. (here: pp. 151–157.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In detail Hermann Gresky in Der Deutsche 1926 No. 296 .
  2. ^ Obituary in Der Deutsche 1896 No. 106 . In his work JG Fr. Cannabich […]. A biographical monument. there are autobiographical remarks about him and his mother, e.g. B. p. 33 .
  3. ↑ Lengemann, Descendants, pp. 153–155 and 196.
  4. ↑ Lengemann, Landtag p. 204f.
  5. ↑ Obituary in Der Deutsche 1920 No. 94 .
  6. ↑ His father Gabriel Christoph Benjamin Busch (* 1759) , pastor in Arnstad, was also very active in publishing. ( Pastors' book, p. 108f.)
  7. ↑ Cf. Stefanie Keyser: How I became a writer. In Die Gartenlaube 1884, pp. 828–830. Wikisource .
  8. ↑ See Adressbuch 1919 p. 11 and 1925 p. 12 . Her obituary is signed by Anna Kelm, the widow of her uncle Gustav and the descendants of her uncle Thilo: Der Deutsche 1926 No. 26 . Thank you notice in No. 30 ; Obituaries in numbers 27 and 31 .
  9. ↑ Life paths in Thuringia. Fourth collection. 2011. ISBN 9783939718574 . Pp. 162–167: Biography No. 344. (here: p. 166.)
  10. ^ See Natural Science Association in Sondershausen. In: Contributions to the Schwarzburgische Heimatskunde. By Th. Irmisch. [Ed. by Gustav Wilhelm Hallensleben.] Second volume. Sondershausen 1906, p. 146f. (Reprint from government and news bulletin for the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen No. 46 of April 15, 1884, p. 183.)
  11. ↑ Der Deutsche 1866 No. 79 , 87 and 124 .
  12. ↑ Der Deutsche 1868 No. 140 and 155 .
  13. ↑ Lengemann, Landtag p. 262f.
  14. ↑ Der Deutsche 1870 No. 78 .
  15. ↑ Der Deutsche 1874 No. 299 .
  16. ^ Obituary in Archive for Theory and Practice of General German Commercial and Exchange Law. Vol. 31 , Berlin 1875, p. 81.
  17. ↑ Der Deutsche 1866 No. 95 and 1871 No. 112 .
  18. ↑ State Handbook SWE 1874 p. 47 .
  19. ↑ Der Deutsche 1871 No. 117 .
  20. ↑ Lengemann, Landtag, pp. 29–33.
  21. ↑ Life paths in Thuringia. Fourth collection. 2011. ISBN 9783939718574 . Pp. 43-46: Biography No. 312.
  22. ↑ Lengemann, Landtag pp. 192–194.
  23. ↑ together with his brother Gustav (at the time district administrator in Gehren) and two other district administrators, cf. Bruno Huschke's description in Der Deutsche 1903 No. 83 .
  24. ^ Minutes of the 3rd Landtag, 2nd session .
  25. ↑ From January 1852 to May 1855 the management of the government was on an interim basis with the director of the departments for church, school and justice, the rather conservative Friedrich Schönemann. (Lengemann, Landtag p. 31, note 92.)
  26. ^ Friedrich Lammert, Constitutional History of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Development of a German territorial constitution in the context of cultural history and constitutional law. Bonn and Leipzig: Kurt Schroeder 1920, p. 125.
  27. ^ Election law of October 1, 1852. Digitized .
  28. ↑ Lengemann, Landtag p. 71, note 113.
  29. ↑ State Parliament meeting November 13, 1855 p. 8 .
  30. ^ Members were the district court director Wilhelm FJ Hülsemann, the district administrator Bernhard Maempel , the mayor Friedrich Laue and other special houses dignitaries; see. The German 1861 No. 102 and 1862 No. 18 .
  31. ↑ Der Deutsche 1867 No. 10 .
  32. ↑ Der Deutsche 1867 No. 21 and No. 29 .
  33. ↑ Der Deutsche 1867 No. 109 .
  34. ^ German Reichstag: Handbooks, Vol. 3, 1867 p. 106] and Vol. 8, 1869 p. 242 .
  35. ^ German Reichstag: Protocols Vol. 10, 1870 p. 9 .
  36. ↑ according to the city code of July 10, 1857, §§63ff .
  37. ↑ Der Deutsche 1867, No. 137 ; Lengemann, Landtag p. 203 note 24.
  38. ↑ Der Deutsche 1874 No. 304 .


personal data
SURNAME Keyser, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keyser, Günther Friedrich Carl Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer, member of the Reichstag
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondershausen
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1874
Place of death Sondershausen