Karl Theodor Gier

Karl Theodor Gier (born November 9, 1796 in Mühlhausen , Province of Saxony , † November 10, 1856 ibid) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

Gier studied medicine and law in Jena and took part in the wars of liberation as an original fraternity (member since 1817) . In 1815 he served as a volunteer hunter . In 1821 he was appointed as the youngest member of the municipal authorities of the city of Mühlhausen and, at the age of 33, was elected mayor in 1829.

He was a consistent advocate of bourgeois-liberal ideas and in 1847 initially belonged to the United State Parliament and as a member of the Casino parliamentary group from March 17 to April 25, 1849 for the 21st constituency of the province of Saxony (Mühlhausen) in the Frankfurt National Assembly . For this reason he was deposed as mayor in 1849 by decree of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Although Gier was reinstated in this office in 1850, the king refused to allow him to be re-elected in 1856. The politically sidelined greed died that same year.

Honors

In Mühlhausen a street was named after him Gierstraße and in 1996 his tomb in the old cemetery was erected in front of the Marienkirche there.

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 128.

Roswitha Henning: The Mühlhausen Mayors and Lord Mayors 1803 to 2012 , Mühlhausen Articles - Special Issue 24, 2012, ISBN 978-3-935547-55-0 , p. 27 ff.

Alfred Wandsleb: Karl Theodor Gier , in: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder, Volume 1, Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhundert, Magdeburg 1926, pp. 153–162.

Roswitha Willenius: Karl Theodor Gier - Wartburg festival participant , Prussian mayor and pre-March opposition , in: Student fraternities and bourgeois upheaval. On the 175th anniversary of the Wartburg Festival, ed. by Helmut Asmus, Berlin 1992.

Individual evidence

^ Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 168.

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Short biography

personal data
SURNAME	Greed, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 9, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mühlhausen , Province of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1856
Place of death	Mühlhausen , Province of Saxony

[1] Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 168.