Johannes Semler (politician, 1858)

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Johannes Semler 1905

Johannes Semler (born October 5, 1858 in Hamburg ; † September 23, 1914 there ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Semler first studied law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . In 1888 he became active in the Corps Suevia Strasbourg . As an inactive, he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Sorbonne . After taking his first exam, he completed a legal traineeship in Hamburg . After the assessor examination , he settled as a lawyer. From 1889 to 1907 Semler belonged to the Hamburg citizenship in the Left Center parliamentary group . For the National Liberal Party he was a member of the Reichstag from 1901 until his death . Since all of Hamburg's Reichstag constituencies at that time certainly fell to Social Democrats , Semler successfully ran for election in the Wittmund - Aurich constituency on Albert Ballin's initiative so that at least one representative of bourgeois Hamburg had a seat in the Reichstag. In this function he showed particular interest in the German colonies . He traveled to Togoland , German Cameroon and German South West Africa .

family

Semler was married to Susanne Mönckeberg , the eldest daughter of the Hamburg mayor Johann Georg Mönckeberg . He died shortly before his 56th birthday. Semler was the father of the CSU politician Johannes Semler (1898–1973) and the grandfather of the AEG CFO Johannes Semler jun. as well as the journalist Christian Semler .

Works

  • Togo and Cameroon, impression and snapshots from the parliamentary study trip (1905)
  • My observations in South West Africa (1906)

literature

  • German biographical yearbook . Published by the Association of German Academies, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1925.
  • Documents and materials on the history of the German labor movement . Published by the Institute for Marxism-Leninism at the Central Committee of the SED, Dietz Verlag 1966.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 101 , 45.
  2. ↑ see entry in the DNB catalog for Johannes Semler or under GND = 117469688
  3. ^ Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): Statistics of the Reichstag elections of 1907. First part: Comparative overview of the Reichstag elections of 1903 and 1907 based on the reports of the election commissioners . Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer und Mühlbrecht, 1907, p. 85 (= special publication for the quarterly issue of statistics of the German Empire) - Imperial Statistical Office (ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 90 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)
  4. ^ Ekkehard Böhm: Overseas trade and fleet construction. Hanseatic merchants and German naval armaments 1879–1902. Düsseldorf 1972, ISBN 3-571-09049-7 , p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Semler, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Semler, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (NLP), MdHB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1914
Place of death Hamburg