Jacob Astor

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Jacob Astor

Jacob Astor (born December 23, 1867 in Bernkastel , † December 4, 1938 ibid) was a German politician of the ZENTRUM .

Life and work

After completing primary school, Astor attended grammar school in Trier up to Obersekunda and then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Trier by 1887. Until 1891 he served with the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 . After he was co-owner of a Moselle wine shop (wholesalers and retailers) in Bernkastel-Kues from 1890 to 1907 , he then took over a long-established fashion goods business (also wholesalers and retailers). During the First World War he was employed as station commander for Trier-West and at times also in the Reich Ministry of War.

Astor sat on the supervisory board of the purchasing association of West German manufacturers and was chairman of the Reich Association of Retailers' Associations and from 1912 to 1934 chairman of the retail trade association (since 1921 trade association for the retail trade ).

MP

Astor was a city councilor in Bernkastel-Kues . From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Wittlich - Bernkastel . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly . From July 28, 1931, when he replaced his late party friend Peter Kerp , until July 1932, he was again a member of the Reichstag .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Hillger, Handbook of the German constitutional assembly, Leipzig 1919, article on Jacob Astor
  2. ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 95 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)

literature

  • Hermann Hillger: Handbook of the constituent German national assembly. Berlin, Leipzig 1919.

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personal data
SURNAME Astor, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernkastel
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1938
Place of death Bernkastel