Jacob Preuss

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Jacob Preuss (born December 26, 1768 in Steinbach ; † December 15, 1826 ibid) was mayor of Steinbach, local councilor and a member of the Nassau parliament. From 1818 to 1826 he was a member of the Nassau Landtag .

politics

Jacob Preuss head office, street side
Jacob Preuss' headquarters, courtyard side

Jacob Preuss was elected to the Nassau state parliament in 1818 as a representative of the group of landowners in the constituency of Dillenburg . There he was a member of the state estates of the Nassau Landtag (second chamber) until his death at the age of 58 . Jacob Preuss was succeeded by Joseph Adamy from Hadamar in 1828 .

family

Jacob Preuß was the son of the farmer Johannes Preuß and his wife Elisabetha, nee Bock. From his first marriage to Katharina Bausch from Oberweyer († 1799) he had 4 children. He had 8 children with Elisabetha Bill from Oberweyer (born January 16, 1780; † December 22, 1826), whom he married in Oberweyer in 1801 .

Parent company

Steinbach was largely destroyed in the course of the Thirty Years' War. The reconstruction takes place on the right and left of Langstrasse. The original building of Jacob Preuss is the current building at Langstrasse 39. It was built in 1702. After Jacob Preuss's death, his son-in-law Johann Georg Wolf, who came from Niedertiefenbach , lived here. He was initially married to daughter Anna Maria and, after her death in 1834, to younger sister Maria Anna.

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 297.
  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , p. 134.
  • School chronicle for the elementary school in Steinbach. Entry in 1826.
  • Church records for the Steinbach branch of the parish of Oberweyer in the diocesan archive of the Limburg diocese
  • "Das Hadamarer Land", biographical data under "Biographies" , accessed October 31, 2010

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