Gustav Johannsen

Gustav Henrik Jøns Johannsen (born August 2, 1840 in Gunneby , † October 25, 1901 in Flensburg ) was a teacher, newspaper editor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Johannsen attended elementary school until confirmation and later the teacher seminar in Tondern . Thereupon he passed the teacher examination at the Soeborgs Seminarium in Copenhagen . From 1861 to 1864 he was a teacher in the Duchy of Schleswig. After the occupation of Schleswig by Prussia, he was dismissed in 1864. Afterwards he was a bookseller in Flensburg and from 1869 to 1882 editor of the Danish daily newspaper Flensborg Avis . From 1889 he was co-editor of the scientific and political magazine Sønderjydske Aarbøger . He was also the founder and director of Spare- og Lånekasse Flensborg og Omegn (in German: Spar- und Kreditskasse Flensburg und Umgebung, today Union-Bank AG ) and from 1897 he was the owner of a farm in Aagaard near Flensburg. He was also a city councilor, church elder and member of the Propstei Synod for the Propstei Flensburg.

From 1881 to 1884 and from 1886 until his death he was a member of the German Reichstag for the Danish minority, and from 1888 until his death he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives .

Gravestone for Gustav Johannsen in the mill cemetery in Flensburg

Johannsen died on October 25, 1901 after a serious illness. In Flensburg, the Gustav Johannsen-Skolen , a Danish school, is named after him.

Individual evidence

^ 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. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, pp. 107-108.
↑ 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. 201 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the different constituencies and the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , p. 869.

literature

Klaus Tolstrup Petersen: Gustav Johannsen - og moderniseringen af danskheden i Sønderjylland , Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2017 (University of Southern Denmark Studies in History and Social Sciences; 541), ISBN 978-87-408-3070-5 .

Web links

Johannsen, Gustav Heinrich Jöns in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Gustav Heinrich Joerns Johannsen . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Gustav Johannsen-Skolen

personal data
SURNAME	Johannsen, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Johannsen, Gustav Henrik Jøns; Johannsen, Gustav Heinrich Jöns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Teacher, newspaper editor and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gunneby
DATE OF DEATH	October 25, 1901
Place of death	Flensburg

[1] 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. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, pp. 107-108.

[2] 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. 201 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the different constituencies and the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , p. 869.