Hans von Querfurth
Hans Hugo Carl Edler von Querfurth (born September 11, 1849 in Wildenthal , † September 28, 1931 in Dresden ) was a German entrepreneur and politician. In the Saxon state parliament he was together with Gottfried Opitz leader of the conservative parliamentary group.
Live and act
The son of the ironworks owner Hugo Carl Edler von Querfurth (1820–1881) on Wildenthal and Schönheiderhammer was tutored by a private tutor until 1857. He enjoyed further education at the Krause'schen Institute in Dresden until 1865 and then at the grammar school in Zwickau until 1867 . Between 1867 and 1871 he studied mining science and metallurgy at the Bergakademie Freiberg . However, this study was interrupted by his military service, which he served from 1868 to 1870. He was wounded at the Battle of Sedan in 1870, which resulted in a stiff arm. After he was released from the hospital, he finished his studies and then joined his father's company, the Karl Edler v. Company, as an engineer at the end of 1871 . Querfurth , in the u. a. Special grate bars, malleable cast iron and enamelled hollow cast iron were produced. Together with his brother Horst, he was the owner of the company from 1878. In 1892 it had 463 employees. At the same time he owned the Lichtenau estate . He was a member of the Plauen Chamber of Commerce and the Association of Saxon Industrialists .
In a by-election in 1899 in the 42nd rural electoral district, he was elected as the successor to the late MP Gustav Rostosky in the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament. He retained this mandate until 1909, when Otto Zimmer was elected after the three-class suffrage was replaced by the plural suffrage in this constituency. Von Querfurth was a member of the board of the Conservative State Association in Saxony from 1903 to 1909 and was a conservative parliamentary leader in 1905 together with Gottfried Opitz.
Hans von Querfurth was half of the co-owner of the iron foundry Schönheiderhammer and the associated agriculture with 537 hectares before the First World War.
Querfurth was married twice. His first marriage was in 1876 with Emma Baumann (1854–1901), daughter of the lawyer, manorial estate owner and member of the state parliament Adolf Baumann on Trebsen . In 1921 he married Margarete Thamm (1889–1948).
literature
- Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952. Sächsischer Landtag, Dresden 2001, p. 121.
- 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. 446.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Flath: Local history and history of Schönheide, Schönheiderhammer and Neuheide , Schönheide o. J. (1909), Reprint 1992, p. 331 digitized in the State and University Library Dresden
- ^ Yearbook of the wealth and income of the millionaires of the Kingdom of Saxony , Verlag Rudolf Martin, Berlin 1912, pp. 165f. ( Digitized version in the Dresden State and University Library ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Querfurth, Hans von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Querfurth, Hans Hugo Carl Edler von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wildenthal |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1931 |
| Place of death | Schönheiderhammer |