Johann Schmitt (politician, 1845)

Johann Baptist Schmitt (* 8. December 1845 in Volkach , † 1. October 1906 ibid) was 1901-1904 Member of Parliament in the Chamber of Deputies in the Bavarian Parliament. From 1900 to 1905 he was mayor of Volkach.

Live and act

Johann Baptist Schmitt was born on December 8, 1845 in the Bavarian district court town of Volkach. He probably grew up in the house on Hauptstrasse 7, where his father Joseph Schmitt may have worked as a baker . Schmitt later learned to be a confectioner in order to succeed his father. He merged the house with a neighboring property and ran a bakery with a wine press and a gingerbread shop for the production of so-called Masonic gingerbread .

On January 1, 1900, Johann Schmitt was elected mayor of his hometown. He held this office until December 31, 1905. In 1901, Schmitt also succeeded the late Ignaz Aumüller as a member of the constituency of Haßfurt / Ufr in the Bavarian state parliament. He continued the committee work of his predecessor and dealt in particular with a reform of the basic value levy . In 1904 he left the state parliament. Johann Schmitt died in Volkach on October 1, 1906.

See also

• List of mayors of Volkach

literature

• Gerhard Egert: The mayors of the city of Volkach 1720–1990 . In: Ute Feuerbach (Ed.): Volkach. 906-2006 . Volkach 2006. pp. 122-124.
• Günther Schmitt: House chronicle of the city of Volkach as a mirror of the bourgeoisie. From the end of the 17th century until today (= Volkacher Hefte vol. 19) . Volkach 2017.

Web links

• Johann Schmitt in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schmitt, Günther: House chronicle of the city of Volkach as a mirror of the bourgeoisie . Pp. 46-48.
2. ^ Egert, Gerhard: The mayors of the city of Volkach 1720–1990 . P. 123.
3. ^ House of Bavarian History: Johann Schmitt , accessed on September 6, 2018.