Gert Tönnies
Gert Cornils Johannes Tönnies (born May 15, 1851 in Oldenswort , † July 3, 1928 in Kiel ) was a farmer and member of the German Reichstag .
Life
Gert Tönnies - older brother of the sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies - attended elementary school, received private tuition and graduated from the high school in Husum . From 1868 to 1872 he was a wholesaler apprentice in Hamburg , 1872–73 a year- old volunteer in the 16th Hussar Regiment and from 1874 to 1881 in one of the first wholesale houses in London as a correspondent and accountant. In 1882 he took over the family headquarters in Garding and became a farmer. There he was also deputy mayor and in 1889 mayor. For many years he was also a member of the administrative committee of the Schleswig-Holstein Agricultural Cooperative Association in Kiel and a member of the supervisory board of Schleswig-Holstein's main cooperative in Kiel since it was founded.
From 1898 to 1903 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein 4 ( Tondern , Husum , Eiderstedt ) and the National Liberal Party . Between 1908 and 1918 he was also a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and at times also a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Provincial Parliament .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Carstens: Ferdinand Tönnies. Frisians and citizens of the world. 2005, p. 21
- ^ 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. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 110.
- ↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne . Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 388 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3)
Web links
- Tönnies, Gert Cornils Johannes in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Johannes Gert Toennies . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
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SURNAME | Tönnies, Gert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tönnies, Gert Cornils Johannes (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer and politician (NLP), MdR |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1851 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldens word |
DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1928 |
Place of death | Kiel |