Gustav Adolf Vodel

Gustav Adolf Vodel (born May 6, 1831 in Grünhain ; † August 5, 1908 in Blasewitz ) was a German lawyer and conservative politician in the Kingdom of Saxony . He was a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Live and act

The son of a postal manager studied after attending elementary school in October 1850, the University of Leipzig the law . In October 1856 he entered the royal Saxon civil service. After a legal clerkship at the District Court of Annaberg , he was appointed court clerk in Burgstädt in 1866 . In 1868 he was transferred to Bautzen . After a stint as a Councilor in the District Directorate of Leipzig , he was appointed in 1874 Amtshauptmann of Schwarzenberg appointed, but in 1877 after Zwickau added. In the 20th urban constituency in 1875, in a by-election that had become necessary after the death of Carl Eduard Mannsfeld , he was elected to the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament, of which he was a member until 1880. But he only seems to have participated in the Landtag in 1877/78. After he was appointed lecturer and secret councilor in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior in December 1880 , he resigned from his state parliament mandate. In a by-election, the entrepreneur Adolph Lange was chosen as his successor.

In November 1885 he took over the chairmanship of the arbitral tribunals for the companies of the Saxon State Railways, the companies of the postal and telegraph administration, Section VII of the Knappschafts- Berufsgenossenschaft , Section IV of the Berufsgenossenschaft der Gas- und Wasserwerke, the Sächsische Textil-Berufsgenossenschaft as well the Sächsische-Holz-Berufsgenossenschaft. In April 1892 he was appointed to the secret council in the Ministry of the Interior and promoted to the head of the I. Department. In July 1893 he took over the post of director of the III. Department of the Ministry.

He was the representative of the authorized representatives of the Kingdom of Saxony in the Federal Council and chairman of the state insurance office. From 1892 he was a member of the Competence Court and from 1897 a member of the Disciplinary Court. From December 1880 until his retirement in January 1903 he was government commissioner at the Agricultural Credit Association , then chairman of the association's board of directors until his death. Vodel died in Blasewitz near Dresden in 1908 and was buried in the Trinity cemetery.

Honors

For his support in building the railway to Johanngeorgenstadt , he was honored with honorary citizenship there in 1880 . In 1897 he was promoted to Dr. phil. appointed hc .

literature

• 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. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 483-484.
• Vodel, Gustav Adolf. In: Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , pp. 165 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} 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. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 484.
2. ↑ Josef Matzerath: Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 92; Matzerath accidentally leads him as Gustav Adolph Bodel
3. ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 4, 1908, p. 302.