Karl Gustav Ackermann

Karl Gustav Ackermann

Karl Gustav Ackermann (born April 10, 1820 in Elsterberg , † March 1, 1901 in Dresden ) was a German conservative politician ( German Conservative Party ). He was a long-time member of the Reichstag and the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament .

Life

Karl Gustav Ackermann was the first son of the royal Saxon appellate council and court director Gustav Adolph Ackermann (born January 16, 1791 in Auerbach i. V .; † February 19, 1872 in Dresden) and Caroline, née. Wagner, born. His younger brother was the Leipzig publisher and bookseller Albin Ackermann-Teubner .

After graduating from high school in Grimma, he studied from 1840 to 1843 at the University of Leipzig and from 1843 to 1845 in Heidelberg the law . In 1840 he became a member of the Old Leipzig Burschenschaft . In 1841 he became active in the Corps Misnia Leipzig . He began his legal career in 1845 as the office secretary in Königsbrück ( Saxony ), and from 1847 to 1849 as a council actuary at the Dresden city council. In 1849 he settled in Dresden as an independent lawyer and notary .

In 1853 Ackermann was elected to the city council of Dresden, where he became its board member in 1865. As early as 1857 he became the syndic of the Dresden fund exchange , where he recommended himself through successful work for this position at the Saxon Bank , which he took over in 1865.

In 1869 Ackermann was elected to the Reichstag of the North German Confederation and two years later to the Reichstag of the German Empire. First he was a member of the Liberal Reich Party , then he joined the German Reich Party before he joined the German Conservative Party . As an opponent of freedom of trade , Ackermann supported the protective tariff policy . Between 1880 and 1883 Ackermann acted as the second Vice President of the German Reichstag. During this time he worked as a financial procurator . He supported cooperation between the Conservatives and the National Liberals .

He was one of the leaders of the Saxon Conservatives and was one of the founders of the Conservative State Association in 1875, of which he was a member of the board from 1875 to 1891. In 1894 he was interim chairman of the association for several months.

He belonged to Chamber II of the Saxon Landtag between 1869 and 1871 as a representative of the 2nd constituency of the city of Dresden and from 1877 until his death as a representative of the 5th urban constituency. At the beginning of the Landtag in 1891/92 he was elected President of the Chamber by the MPs. He held this office until the parliamentary sessions of 1897/98. At the age of 78, he decided not to be re-elected, thus enabling his son-in-law Paul Mehnert to take up this position.

Ackermann died shortly before his 81st birthday and was buried in the New Annenfriedhof in Dresden-Löbtau.

family

In 1848 he married Agnes Benedektine Teubner (1824-1891), the daughter of the Leipzig publisher Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner . With her he had a daughter, Katharina Agnes (1854–1934).

medal

Members of the Reichstag parliamentary group of the German Conservative Party (from left to right): Rudolph Wichmann , Otto von Seydewitz , Helmuth von Moltke , Count Konrad von Kleist-Schmenzin , Otto von Helldorff , Karl Gustav Ackermann.

• Order of Civil Merit (Saxony) , Knight's Cross
• Albrechts Order
• Royal Crown Order
• House order of Albrecht the Bear
• Cross of Honor of Schwarzburg

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig
• Councilor , on the occasion of his 60th birthday (1880)
• Honorary Citizen of Dresden (1878)

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. 339-340.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 1–2.
• 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. 1 f. ( Online , PDF; 2.2 MB).
• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952. Sächsischer Landtag, Dresden 2001, pp. 75f.

Web links

• Karl Gustav Ackermann in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Karl Gustav Ackermann . In: Heinrich Best : Database of the members of the Reichstag des Kaiserreich 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich) (the exact dataset must be determined with the search function)
• Karl Gustav Ackermann in the Deutsche Fotothek
• Josef Matzerath: Ackermann, Gustav . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 151 , 31
2. ↑ German Gender Book , Vol. 125, p. 6.