Gustav Hermann Köselitz

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Gustav Hermann Köselitz (1822–1910)

Gustav Hermann Köselitz (born October 18, 1822 in Annaberg ; † October 2, 1910 there ) was a politician of the German Progressive Party . He was the vice mayor of his hometown and a member of the Saxon state parliament .

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The son of the Annaberg merchant and trader Julius Karl Köselitz (1782–1846) went to Vienna after attending the trade school in the nearby industrial city of Chemnitz , where he worked in the dye workstrained by Alfred Corra. He then worked in Germany, France and Switzerland and in 1844 settled as a silk dyeing owner in his hometown of Annaberg. From the 1860s he was a city councilor and from 1871 on as a city councilor of Annaberg. From 1880 he held the office of paid city judge and was deputy mayor in this function. From 1879 to 1885 he represented the 19th urban constituency in the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament. In 1892 his work was honored with the appointment of an honorary citizen of Annaberg. He was a knight of the Order of Albrecht.

Köselitz was born on November 3, 1845 with Karoline. Grimmer (born October 29, 1819 in Horskau, † March 14, 1900 in Annaberg), daughter of a master tailor from Währing near Vienna. The marriage had eleven children. Her son Heinrich Köselitz was a writer and composer who was friends with Friedrich Nietzsche and published his works. His younger brother Rudolf Köselitz worked as a painter and illustrator.

literature

  • Gotthard B. Schicker : Köselitz: World Citizens from Annaberg - A Family and City Biography, ERZDruck, Marienberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-946568-23-0
  • Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952. Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2001, p. 110.
  • 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. 411.
  • Helmut Unger , Reinhart Unger: Civil offices in Annaberg from 1503-1919. Issue 2. Adam-Ries-Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz 1998, ISBN 3-930430-27-4 , p. 27 ( sources on the local and family history of the Erzgebirge 22, 2).

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