Johann Anton tenth

Johann Anton Zehnter (born March 24, 1851 in Messelhausen , † December 17, 1922 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer and central politician .

Life

Johann Anton Zehnter studied law in Würzburg and Heidelberg and became secretary in the Baden Ministry of Justice in 1879. In 1881 he went to Mosbach as a public prosecutor, where he was promoted to district judge in 1882. In this position he moved to Constance and later to Karlsruhe. In Karlsruhe he was promoted to the higher regional judge and returned to Mosbach in 1894. From 1904 to 1910 he was president of the regional court in Offenburg and then until 1918 in Heidelberg. With his promotion to the higher regional court president in Karlsruhe shortly before the overthrow of the monarchy, he briefly became a member of the first chamber of the Baden assembly of estates . He remained Baden's highest judge until his death in 1922.

From 1898 to 1918 Zehnter belonged to the Reichstag , where he represented the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Baden 14 ( Tauberbischofsheim ) as a member of parliament . In addition, he was from 1899 to 1918 a member of the Gernsbach electoral district in the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly. After 1907 he became the tenth group leader of the Center Party and from 1917 to 1918 he was president of the Second Chamber. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the National Assembly of Baden . He was also a member of the Weimar National Assembly .

Tenth's grave is in Messelhausen.

Honors

1906 honorary doctorate from the law and political science faculty of the University of Freiburg
Commander's Cross, Second Class, of the Order of the Zähringer Lion

Fonts

On the history of the Jews in the margraviate of Baden-Durlach . In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine , New Series 11 (1896), 12 (1897), 15 (1900)
History of the place Messelhausen. A contribution to the state, legal, economic and moral history of Eastern Franconia . Winter, Heidelberg 1901.
The Baden Constitution of March 21, 1919 . Mannheim et al. 1919, 1921.

Individual evidence

^ Reibel, Carl-Wilhelm: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates . Second half volume. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Vol. 15). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 1310-1313.

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Anton Zehnter in the catalog of the German National Library
Johann Anton Zehnter in the database of members of the Reichstag
Speeches by Johann Anton Zehnter in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Baden state library

personal data
SURNAME	Tenth, Johann Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tenth, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (center), member of the Baden state parliament, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH	Messelhausen
DATE OF DEATH	December 17, 1922
Place of death	Karlsruhe

[1] Reibel, Carl-Wilhelm: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates . Second half volume. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Vol. 15). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 1310-1313.