Julius Pfeiffer

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Ernst Gustav Julius Pfeiffer (born December 23, 1824 in Dittersbach auf dem Eigen , Kingdom of Saxony, † March 19, 1910 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer , manor owner and national liberal politician .

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The son of Johann Gottfried Pfeiffer, owner of the hereditary, feudal and judicial kretscham estate in Dittersbach auf dem Eigen, attended the grammar school in Zittau from 1838 to 1845 . He graduated in law and Kameralistik at the University of Leipzig in which he in 1849 with the promotion of Dr. jur. completed. He then traveled for several years through southern Europe, Asia Minor and Africa and stayed in the Orient for several years. For a short time he was employed by the administrative authority of Löbau and the Leipzig district directorate , but left the civil service after marrying Malwina Josepha von Stremitzberg in 1859.

The manor Burkersdorf , which his father had acquired in 1837 and which included 517 hectares of land, he took over in 1851 for a purchase price of 95,000 thalers. He was Justice of the Peace of Burkersdorf. In 1870 he was a delegate of the German Red Cross to Sedan and Paris.

From 1857 to 1868 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament as deputy member of the manor owners of Upper Lusatia . After the electoral reform of 1868 , he represented the 3rd rural constituency in the Landtag Chamber from 1869 to 1887. From 1875 until his retirement in 1887, he held the office of Vice-President of the Chamber. From March 1871 to July 1878 he also represented the 1st Saxon constituency in the German Reichstag . In 1895 he was appointed for life as a member of the I. Landtag Chamber by the Saxon King.

Pfeiffer was also a member of the supervisory board of the Oberlausitzer Bank based in Zittau . He worked as a writer and devoted himself in particular to travel reports.

literature

  • 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. 440-441.

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