Gotthold Lessing (politician)

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing the Younger (born April 7, 1861 in Berlin ; † March 3, 1919 ) was a landowner and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Lessing was the son of Carl Robert Lessing and the great-great-nephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . From his father he inherited Meseberg Castle , which he moved to in 1891 with his wife Anna, nee. Cell, moved in. In 1934 his widow had to sell Meseberg Castle again.

From June 1896 to 1898 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Potsdam  3 ( Ruppin , Templin ) and in the Free People's Party . His cousin, the chamber judge Friedrich Müller (1845-1901), was also a member of the Liberal People's Party and the German Reichstag in 1898.

He and his widow Anna were buried in a mausoleum on Gut Meseberg near the Huwenowsee.

literature

  • Arend Buchholtz : The story of the Lessing family . Berlin 1909, Vol. II.
  • Jörg Kuhn : Ms. Mint director MF Lessing, née Voss, and the story of a grave slab in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf . In: Yearbook 2006 of the Association for the History of Berlin , Bd. LV. Berlin 2006, pp. 55-64. ISSN  0522-0033

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nathan's rings in Meseberg . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 9, 1995
  2. historismus.net ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historismus.net