Ignatz Feigel

Georg Igna (t) z Aloysius Feigel (born January 23, 1855 in Krapendorf ; † October 26, 1922 in Cloppenburg ) was a Catholic politician in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Family and life

Ignatz Feigel was the son of the merchant Ferdinand Feigel and his wife Maria nee Caesar. He attended high school in Vechta . After his father's death, he left school in 1873 and took over his father's business.

Ignatz Feigel married Anna Christina Maria nee Stindt (born August 12, 1850) on May 9, 1879, the daughter of the businessman Thomas Stindt and his wife Helene Beeuen in Marienhafe . After the death of his first wife, he married Elisabeth, nee gr. Arkenau, for the second time. Fourteen children resulted from these two marriages.

politics

Ignatz Feigel was elected to the city council in 1881 and was mayor of the city of Cloppenburg from 1885 to 1910. The "Bürgermeister-Feigel-Straße" in Cloppenburg is named after him.

During his tenure, the dairy cooperative was founded, the existing railway network was expanded, the gas works was built and the savings and loan fund and the secondary school were set up.

He belonged to the German Center Party . From 1902 to 1922 he was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament for his party . There he was temporarily chairman of the finance committee. In the first electoral term of the Weimar Republic's parliament in 1919, he was parliamentary group leader of his party. Between 1920 and 1920 he was Vice President of the State Parliament.

swell

• Albrecht Eckhardt: From the bourgeois revolution to the National Socialist takeover. The Oldenburg State Parliament and its deputies 1848–1933. Isensee, Oldenburg 1996, ISBN 3-89598-327-6 , p. 93 ( Oldenburger Forschungen NF 1).

Web links

• Biography of Ignatz Feigel (PDF; 8.4 MB) In: www.lb-oldenburg.de accessed on June 4, 2011