Gustav Richard Wagner

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Gustav Richard Wagner (born November 10, 1809 in Altenburg , † May 5, 1881 in Jena ) was a lawyer and member of the Reichstag .

Wagner was the son of the ducal Saxon tax council Johann Friedrich August Wagner and his wife Henriette Charlotte Christiana née Reichhardt. Wagner, who was of the Lutheran denomination, married on January 28, 1834 in Altenburg Maria August Waitz (born January 28, 1818 in Altenburg; † July 30, 1890 ibid), the daughter of the ducal Saxon chamber councilor Carl Friedrich Waitz.

From 1818 Wagner attended the private school Kersten in Altenburg and from 1823 the Gymnasium Fridericianum in Altenburg and from 1827 studied law first in Jena and then in Erlangen , where he also received his doctorate in 1831 . During his studies he became a member of the Jena Burschenschaft in 1827 and of the Old Erlangen Burschenschaft Germania in 1829 . From 1832 to 1842 he worked as a lawyer, from 1842 to 1862 as a state judicial councilor. From 1862 to 1876 he was Vice President of the Altenburg Court of Appeal , its President from 1876 to 1879, and President of the Senate of the Jena Higher Regional Court from 1879 to 1881 .

In 1848 he became captain and company commander of the civil guard in the 5th district of Altenburg, later colonel and commander of the entire guard.

From 1849 to 1854 he was a member and speaker of the town council (city council) of Altenburg. In 1850 he was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament . From 1851 to 1854 and from 1870 to 1879 he was a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Altenburg . There he was Vice President from 1851 to 1853 and President of the State Parliament from 1854 and 1870 to 1879. From 1867 to 1870 he was a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and from 1871 to 1878 a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Saxony-Altenburg and the National Liberal Party .

His son Karl Friedrich Richard Wagner was mayor of Plauen and was in charge of the management of the main committee and thus the chairmanship of the Association of German Mountain and Hiking Associations.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lengemann instead states that he was awarded a doctorate in Jena on July 28, 1869. hc was appointed
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 342, short biography p. 483.
  3. ^ 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. 282–283.

literature

  • Hermann Kalkoff (Ed.): National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual state parliaments. Contributions to party history. Publication distribution center of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 187-189.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: Members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups (= publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia. Large series, Vol. 6). Urban & Fischer, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 325.

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Gustav Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1881
Place of death Jena