Karl Christian Heinrich Westphal

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Karl Christian Heinrich Westphal (born June 27, 1824 in Schwerin ; † August 11, 1890 ) was a lawyer, mayor of Schwerin and a member of the Reichstag .

Westphal visited the Fridericianum Schwerin and studied from 1844 to 1848 in Heidelberg and Rostock law . During his studies he became a member of the Heidelberg Castle Association in 1844 and of the Teutonia Heidelberg fraternity in 1845 . After passing the first examination, he joined the magistrate as an auditor, and in 1855 he was elected senator. In 1866 he was appointed syndic of the city of Schwerin and in 1870 the council elected him mayor. He was u. a. Director of the Magistrate Court and director of the board of all municipal schools.

From 1871 to 1874 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the National Liberal Party for the constituency of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 2 (Schwerin-Stadt).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Karl Westphal's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ 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. 268.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , p. 373.
  • 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

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personal data
SURNAME Westphal, Karl Christian Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, mayor and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1890