Johannes Wetzlich

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Johannes Oskar Wetzlich (born June 14, 1871 in Dresden ; † October 12, 1922 there ) was a German politician of the DNVP .

Life and work

Johannes Wetzlich was the son of the glazier and later conservative member of the state parliament Eduard Wetzlich (1839–1905). After attending the Dresden Citizens' School and the Realgymnasium , which he left at the age of 16, Wetzlich, who was an evangelical believer , completed an apprenticeship in glazing , which he completed in 1891. In 1896 he passed the master craftsman examination and from then on worked as a wholesaler and retailer with glass products. He also founded an art shop.

In the Reichstag elections in 1907 and 1912, Wetzlich was a candidate for the anti-Semitic German Reform Party and around 1910 chairman of the German Reform Association in Dresden.

During the First World War he was deployed from 1914 to 1916 in a Landsturm battalion as a front-line soldier in Belgium.

From 1908 to 1917 Wetzlich was a city councilor and from 1917 until his death an unpaid city councilor in Dresden . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly for the DNVP . His brother Karl Eduard Wetzlich was also a city councilor in Dresden from 1901 to 1919.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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 , p. 489.
  2. ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs 1910. II. Part 5th section, p. 169.
personal data
SURNAME Worry, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wetzlich, Johannes Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician of the DNVP
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1922
Place of death Dresden