Jens Jessen (politician)

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Jens Jessen

Jens Jessen (born February 5, 1854 in Mögeltondern ; † July 22, 1906 in Copenhagen ) was a German-Danish editor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Jessen attended the seminar in Tondern and the University of Göttingen . In his youth he was a tutor. He passed the exam for secondary school teachers (French and English) and the exam for rectors in Kassel . After that he was supposed to become head of a Danish secondary school in Hadersleben , but this was closed by the authorities. Since July 1, 1882 he was editor-in-chief and since 1883 also publisher of the daily Flensborg Avis . As an editor, he was sentenced to a total of four years in prison. He was also the author of several writings: Mellem Östersö og Vesterhav (1887), Talesprog og Skriftsprog (1891) and Valgtaler 1902 . In 1898 he ran for the Reichstag election in the 4th Schleswig constituency (Tondern- Husum ). On March 8, 1902, he was elected as a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Schleswig-Holstein 1 ( Hadersleben , Sonderburg ) and re-elected on June 16, 1903. The mandate ended with his death.

In Mögeltondern a monument was erected for him and in Flensburg was the Jens Jessen Skolen , a primary and secondary school of the Danish minority , named after him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 107.
  2. ↑ Ulrike & Karl-Heinz Kreiter: Mögeltondern - Møgeltønder , accessed on August 29, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Jessen, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish editor and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Mögeltondern
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1906
Place of death Copenhagen