Julius Leemann

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Julius Leemann

Julius Leemann , von Leemann since 1905, (born October 26, 1839 in Stuttgart , † July 15, 1913 Stuttgart) was a German farmer, agricultural cooperative, university professor and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Leemann was the only child of the chief police commissioner and chief magistrate Carl Friedrich Leemann . He attended high schools in Stuttgart and Ulm and passed without a school leaving examination. Between 1857 and 1859 he ran agricultural practice on estates in Kleinglattbach and Lautenbach and from 1859 to 1861 he attended the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy . From 1861 to 1872 he was a practical farmer on his Gliemenhof estate near Schwäbisch Hall , where he mainly ran a dairy farm. He was head of the agricultural winter school in Heilbronn and agricultural expert for the Württemberg Neckar District from 1872 to 1888. He was also head of the Heilbronn agricultural district association and the 4th agricultural district association in Württemberg from 1875 to 1888 and head of the Association of agricultural credit cooperatives in Württemberg since 1881. Since 1889, he was an extraordinary member of the department for field clearing at the Royal Württemberg Central Office for Agriculture. He was also chairman of the board of directors of the agricultural accident insurance trade association for the Württemberg Neckar district between 1888 and 1891.

From 1884 to 1891 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the National Liberal Party , which appeared in Württemberg as the German party , and the constituency of Württemberg 11 ( Hall , Backnang , Öhringen , Weinsberg ). He was also a member of the Württemberg Landtag from 1877 to 1891 and of the German Agriculture Council from 1880. Politically, he was particularly committed to grain tariffs and the cooperative law.

As a result of his appointment on July 17, 1891, he resigned his parliamentary mandates as full professor of agriculture, agricultural technology and cooperative systems at the University of Tübingen . Even after his retirement in 1905, he remained an associate professor of agriculture for three years.

In 1905 he was awarded the Cross of Honor of the Order of the Württemberg Crown combined with the personal title of nobility. In 1963, his grave in the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart was not kept, but has been tended by the city ever since.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 243.

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