Karl Mayer (politician, 1835)

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Karl Mayer (born December 4, 1835 in Heilbronn ; † July 8, 1918 ibid) was a German farmer (estate administrator) and politician ( DP ).

Life

After attending school in Heilbronn, Mayer completed an agricultural training course and from 1853 to 1856 attended a three-year course at the agricultural school in Hohenheim . After that he was administrator of goods in the Kingdom of Hanover for several years . In 1869 he became the agricultural inspector of the Heilbronn sugar factory . a. occupied himself with the administration of the manors in Bonfeld and Fürfeld leased from the sugar factory . From 1891 he was the agricultural director of the sugar factory, which he remained until 1901.

As “one of the leading agricultural officials in Württemberg”, Mayer was a member of numerous committees and associations, primarily in the field of agriculture. From 1872 to 1910 he was on the board of the Heilbronn Agricultural District Association, from 1880 to 1895 a member of the Württemberg Railway Council and from 1892 to 1910 a member of the Central Office for Agriculture.

In politics, Mayer was active as a member of the national liberal German party . In the Württemberg state elections in 1889, he did not run for office (in the Heilbronn constituency ), but then went into local politics and was a member of the Heilbronn Citizens' Committee from 1892 to 1895 , and of the Heilbronn Municipal Council from 1895 to 1901 . A Reichstag candidacy in the Württemberg 3 constituency: Brackenheim, Heilbronn, Besigheim, Neckarsulm did not lead to success in the Reichstag election in 1893 ; Martin Haag of the People's Party was elected in the runoff election on June 24, 1893 . A candidacy for the Landtag in the Heilbronn constituency in 1895 was just as unsuccessful; Robert Münzing was also elected by the People's Party in the runoff election on February 14, 1895 .

On January 5, 1907, Mayer was appointed by King Wilhelm II to be one of the two representatives of agriculture in the First Chamber (Chamber of Classes) of the Württemberg estates . He joined the Chamber on February 7, 1907, where he was a member of the Economic Commission and, from 1908, of the Commission to deliberate on the draft law on the Chamber of Agriculture . On December 19, 1910, he resigned his mandate for health reasons. The king appointed Rudolf Ruoff , who entered the Chamber on February 10, 1911, to succeed him .

Mayer was a Protestant denomination and married. His son Gustav Mayer followed him on the board of the Heilbronn sugar factory.

Awards

Remarks

  1. ↑ Raberg gives the period from 1880 to 1905.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nanninga , p. 446
  2. ^ Entry on Gustav Mayer in the HEUSS database of the Heilbronn city archive, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-13365

literature

  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 555 .
  • Friedrich Dürr : Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume I: 741-1895. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, DNB  870345044 , p. 473, 478 (= publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 27. - Unchanged reprint of the 2nd edition from 1926).
  • Friedrich Dürr: Chronicle of the city of Heilbronn . Volume II: 1896-1921. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1986, DNB  870345052 , p. 11, 49, 64, 343 (= publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 28 - Unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1922).
  • Folkert Nanninga: Voting in the era of the establishment of an empire. The state elections of July 8, 1868 and December 5, 1870 in the Kingdom of Württemberg (=  publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B: Research . Volume 157 ). W. Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart, ISBN 3-17-018495-4 , pp. 446, 451-453 .

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personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1918
Place of death Heilbronn