Julius Gensel

Julius Gensel, notary and lawyer in Leipzig, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce

In 1883 Julius Gensel had his representative villa built at Hillerstraße 3 in Leipzig's Bachviertel by the Berlin architect Friedrich Heinrich Stöckhardt .

Villa Dr. Julius Gensel at Hillerstraße 3 - floor plan

Walter Julius Gensel (born December 18, 1835 in Schellenberg , † March 9, 1916 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer and politician ( National Liberal Party ). He was a member of the Reichstag and the Saxon Landtag .

Life

The son of the judiciary, Ernst Walter Gensel (1806–1886), attended grammar school in Weimar from 1848 and then studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1854 to 1858 . In December 1863 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. From 1864 he worked as a lawyer in Leipzig, later also as a notary. On March 15, 1866, he took over the secretariat of the Chamber of Commerce in Leipzig and then gave up his legal practice. He was chairman of the Association of German Chamber of Commerce Secretaries. In 1900 he finished his work as secretary of the Leipzig Chamber of Commerce.

From January 1866 to December 1872 he was the city councilor of Leipzig. As a representative of the 9th urban constituency ( Döbeln , Leisnig , Waldheim , Mügeln ), he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon Landtag from 1869 to 1877, where he held the office of 2nd Chamber Secretary in 1869/70 and 1875/76 . He was also a consultant on tax reform issues. From January 1877 to July 1878 he represented the constituency of Saxony 15 ( Mittweida ) in the Reichstag in Berlin . From 1888 to around 1902 he was chairman of the National Liberal Association in the Kingdom of Saxony , later its honorary chairman .

Gensel was a member of the Committee of the National Economic Congress (since 1873) and the Association for Social Policy (since 1875). He was also chairman of the non-profit society and the arts and crafts museum in Leipzig, the association for people's welfare in Leipzig as well as the Leipzig branch association and the Saxon regional association of the society for the spread of popular education.

family

Gensel married Ottilie Voigt (1835-1887) on May 25, 1864, a daughter of Robert Schumann's friend Henriette Voigt . He published many of Schumann's letters, which were still in the family's possession at the time, and was friends with Clara Schumann , with whom he also corresponded.

Works

• The Gensel family. Annaberger Line , Leipzig: Frankenstein & Wagner 1886
• Robert Schumann's correspondence with Henriette Voigt. In: Die Grenzboten , vol. 51 (1892), second quarter, pp. 269–277 ( digitized version ), 324–337 ( digitized version) and 368–375 ( digitized version ) - extended special edition Leipzig: FW Grunow 1892
• From Rochlitzen's letters to Henriette Voigt , Leipzig: Merseburger 1906; Special print from the Leipzig calendar
• Henriette Voigt. Memories from Leipzig's musical life during Mendelssohn's time. In: Die Grenzboten , vol. 68 (1909), first quarter, pp. 393–400 ( digitized version )

literature

• Franz Neubert (Ed.): German Contemporary Lexicon. Schulze, Leipzig 1905.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 4th edition. Degener, Leipzig 1909.
• Bruno Volger (Ed.): Saxony's scholars, artists and writers in words and pictures. Self-published, Leipzig 1907–1908 (with picture).
• Hermann Kalkoff (Ed.): National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual state parliaments. Publication distribution center of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917.
• Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 3, Saur, Munich et al. 1996.
• 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 , pp. 376-377.
• Eckhard Hansen, Florian Tennstedt (Eds.) U. a .: Biographical lexicon on the history of German social policy from 1871 to 1945 . Volume 1: Social politicians in the German Empire 1871 to 1918. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-038-6 , p. 59 ( online , PDF; 2.2 MB).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical article about Julius Gensel and his wife

Web links

• Gensel, Walther Julius in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Julius Gensel . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)