Johann Georg Max Schmidt

Johann Georg Max Schmidt (also Maximilian ) (born August 23, 1840 in Altona ; † June 26, 1925 there ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Born as the son of a lawyer and judiciary, Schmidt went to a private school in Altona and the high school there. He studied law in Heidelberg and Kiel . During his studies he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity in 1859 and of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel in 1861 . In 1863 he took his exams in Kiel and became a lawyer in Altona and from 1865 also a notary . In 1883 he became city ​​councilor in Altona and was deputy citizen spokesman from 1886 to 1890 and, from 1891, as citizen spokesman, head of the city ​​council . In 1892 he became a judicial councilor and board member of the Schleswig-Holstein Bar Association , whose deputy chair he became in 1893 and thus also a member of the Bar Association's court of honor. In 1896 he became a member of the Provincial Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein and a deputy member of the Provincial Committee. He was also the deputy chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein City Council. In 1903 he became a privy councilor and in 1908 a privy councilor .

His son was the ethnologist Max Schmidt .

Honors

• 1898: Order of the Red Eagle , 4th class
• Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class
• Oil painting in the town hall of Altona

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 273-274.