Hugo Gottfried Opitz

Hugo Gottfried Opitz (born March 29, 1846 in Netzschkau , † July 13, 1916 in Treuen ) was a German lawyer and politician . He was one of the leading conservative politicians in the Kingdom of Saxony .

Live and act

The son of Johann Gottfried Opitz (1813–1878), feudal lord and court lord on Kauschwitz , Syrau and Jößnitz and his wife Christiane Emilie born. Zeidler (1812-1892) was born in 1846 at Netzschkau Castle . After attending high school in Plauen, he studied from 1866 at the universities of Leipzig , Berlin and Heidelberg law . He completed his studies in July 1870 with the legal university examination and the grade sufficient IV . During his studies, he acquired legal practice at various courts. From September 1870 to March 1872 he worked on the expedition of the lawyer and member of the state parliament Wilhelm Schaffrath in Dresden . In April 1872 he moved to the Dresden court office as an accessist and then worked in the civil service from September 1872 to February 1873, from which he was released at his own request. The admission to the legal state examination was denied to him in May 1875 due to insufficient test work by the Saxon Ministry of Justice .

In April 1876 he worked as an unskilled worker for the lawyer Leonhardt in Mittweida and then joined the expedition of the lawyer and mayor Friedrich Eduard Eule in Auerbach in May 1876 . In October 1876 he passed his legal state examination and was subsequently appointed as a lawyer . In August 1877 he moved from Auerbach to Treuen, where he worked as a lawyer until his death. He was admitted to the Plauen Regional Court including the Chamber for Commercial Matters and the Treuen District Court. In October 1885 he was also hired as a notary . From 1903 at the latest, he was a deputy member of the Plauen Disciplinary Chamber of the Disciplinary Court for Notaries.

In a by-election for the late MP Hermann Grimm on October 18, 1881, Opitz was elected to the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament in the 22nd municipal constituency . He represented this until the state election in 1905, when he succeeded in re-entering the state parliament in the 25th rural constituency. He was one of the leading politicians of the Saxon Conservatives, from 1899 until his death he led the conservative faction of the II. Landtag Chamber. He was a member of the state parliament's committee for the administration of national debt. Opitz was also active in the Landtag administration: from 1899 to 1909 he was 2nd Vice President of the Landtag Chamber, at the Landtag 1909/10 and from 1913 until his death he was 1st Vice President of the Chamber.

Opitz was a member of the board of the Conservative State Association in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1887 until his death . He was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran regional synod, and from 1912 a full member and temporarily chairman of the administrative board of the Agricultural Credit Association . From 1902 until his death he was a member of the state culture council appointed by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior . He was also a member of the board of directors of the Erbländischen Ritterschaftlichen Kreditverein based in Leipzig and in-house counsel for the Vogtland district estates. He was appointed Privy Councilor by the Saxon King .

Opitz owned the manor Treuen upper part, to which 80 hectares of land belonged. His fortune was given in 1912 at 1.2 million Reichsmarks. He was born with Marie Hansel († 1915) from Leipzig married. The Reich and Landtag member Wilhelm Zeidler was a cousin of Opitz.

In addition to his political work, Opitz dealt with the writing of philosophical writings.

Fonts

• Young songs . 1869
• The constitutional law of the Kingdom of Saxony . 2 volumes, Leipzig 1884–1887
• Expert opinion on the draft of a civil code for the German Reich . Leipzig 1889
• Outline of a science of being . 1897
• On the way to God: A study and appendix: Is there a philosophy? 1907
• The modern age on the warpath against God . 1909
• The philosophy of the future . 1910
• The new water law in the Kingdom of Saxony . 1910
• Christianity in the open air of philosophical criticism . 1911
• The I as an interpreter for the knowledge of the not-I. 1913
• The thought of salvation in the light of philosophy and religion . 1914
• A philosophical legacy to the thinker people . 1915

literature

• 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 , pp. 437-438.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Gottfried Opitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Hugo Gottfried Opitz in the Saxon Bibliography