Karl Mehnert (politician, 1811)

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Johann Karl Gotthelf Mehnert (born September 24, 1811 in Grünlichtenberg , † September 27, 1885 in Dresden ) was a German politician and manor owner .

Life

The son of Johann Karl Gotthelf Mehnert (1786–1867), landowner in Grünlichtenberg , studied agriculture in Leipzig . He was appointed special replacement commissioner by the Saxon government. From 1848 he owned the manor Klösterlein near Aue , which included 152 hectares of land. Together with Heinrich Eduard Minckwitz and Gustav Philipp , he founded the Agricultural Credit Association for the Kingdom of Saxony in 1866 , which he headed until 1885.

In 1849/50 he was a representative of the 50th, 52nd and 53rd electoral districts of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament . During this time he worked as a replacement commissioner . Between 1863 and 1869 he represented the 16th electoral district and, following the change in electoral law in 1869, the 35th rural electoral district in the II. Landtag Chamber. He kept the mandate until his death in 1885. He belonged to the Conservative Group. From 1870 to 1885 he was also a full member of the state culture council and from 1872 chairman of the agricultural district association in the Erzgebirge in Chemnitz.

Mehnert's grave in the Inner Neustädter Friedhof in Dresden

He was with Ernestine Mehnert, geb. Zacher (1826–1897) married and had two sons, Maximilian Mehnert (1861–1941) and Paul Mehnert (1852–1922), who were also members of the Saxon state parliament. The latter was President of the Second Chamber from 1899 to 1909.

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 , p. 425.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistical Bureau in the Ministry of the Interior (ed.): State Handbook for the Kingdom of Saxony 1850 , p. 45
  2. ^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 115
personal data
SURNAME Mehnert, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehnert, Johann Karl Gotthelf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünlichtenberg
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1885
Place of death Dresden