Gustav Humser

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Gustav Adolph Humser (born April 26, 1836 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 5, 1918 there ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Humser was the son of the merchant Wilhelm Heinrich Humser and his wife Marie Adelheid nee Spieß. After attending a grammar school in Frankfurt, he studied law in Heidelberg , Berlin and Göttingen . During his studies in 1856 he was one of the founders of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . In 1859 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . After his exams and legal clerkship , he became a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main in 1860 . He also became a notary and worked as a legal advisor to the orphanage and as a senior in the Frankfurt legal profession. From 1873 to 1908 he was a city ​​councilor in Frankfurt for the National Liberal Party . During this time he was deputy secretary in 1877, then deputy chairman until 1880 and then chairman of the Frankfurt city council until 1904 . From 1886 to 1917 he was a member of the Nassau municipal parliament in Wiesbaden for the constituency of the city ​​of Frankfurt . There he was from 1899 to 1917 Chairman of the Municipal Parliament and from 1900 to 1913 Vice-President of the Provincial Parliament of the Hesse-Nassau Province . From 1886 to 1913 he was a member of the state committee. In 1886 he became a judicial councilor , in 1901 a secret councilor . In Frankfurt-Nordend , Humserstrasse is named after him.

He married Anna Katherine Luise Wilhelmine Franziska May (1848–1880), the daughter of the businessman Eduard Georg May , on July 2, 1868 in Frankfurt am Main . Her daughter Elisabeth (Else) was married to Herbert von Meister . The daughter Anna Maria Metzler (1876–1974) married the banker Moritz von Metzler . The son Wilhelm (1870-1938) became Royal Prussian Major i. G.

literature

  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 2: Barbara Burkardt, Manfred Pult: The municipal parliament of the Wiesbaden administrative district 1868–1933 (= publications of the historical commission for Nassau. 71 = prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 17). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-930221-11-X , pp. 166–167.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 414.

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