Johann Alfred von Zahn

Johann Alfred von Zahn (born September 9, 1839 in Dresden ; † December 16, 1910 ibid) was a lawyer, president of the Dresden state consistory and member of the Saxon state parliament .

biography

Von Zahn, son of George von Zahn, a department head and secret councilor in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior , first attended the Freiberg grammar school and, from 1851, the Kreuzschule in Dresden. He then studied law and camera studies in Leipzig from April 1857 to December 1860 , where he passed his legal state examination in March 1860.

Since 1868 Johann Alfred von Zahn was the official governor in Glauchau and director of the entire office of the entire Schönburg house . On October 28, von Zahn was elected in a by-election for Adam Friedrich Ferdinand Heinrich as a member of the 37th rural constituency of the Second Chamber in the Saxon state parliament. From Zahn held the office of deputy until 1875, and from 1873 to 1875 he was second secretary of the Second Chamber. From 1874 to 1884 he held the position of governor of Zittau . He then became senior consistorial advisor in the regional consistory of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony in Dresden, where he rose to president in 1892. He held this office until his death.

Von Zahn was married to his cousin Johanna Friedrike Wilhelmine von Zahn. He died in Dresden in 1910 and was buried in the Trinitatisfriedhof .

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 .

Web links

Zahn, Johann Alfred von . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

• Johann Alfred von Zahn in the Stadtwiki Dresden (with detailed genealogy)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ death survey . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 3 and 4, 1912, p. 233.