Karl Zeitz

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Karl Zeitz (born October 26, 1844 in Salzungen , † May 4, 1912 in Meiningen ) was a brewery owner and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Zeitz attended grammar school and lived for a long time in other European countries. a. in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy. Zeitz gives information about his biography up to 1870 in his war memoirs, first published in 1893. According to this, Zeitz did not comply with his father's wish to become a lawyer, but left high school at the age of 17 before graduating from high school. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Nuremberg. At the age of 19 Zeitz went to Paris in 1863, where he learned French and worked in various trading offices. At the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Zeitz was a commercial agent for tin soldiers from Nuremberg in Paris. At the beginning of the war, Zeitz, who was not a conscript, volunteered for the 2nd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 32, with which his brother Theodor also served. Zeitz experienced the whole war and was u. a. involved in the battles of Wörth, Sedan, Orléans and Le Mans. His war memoirs, in which he describes the campaign of 1870/71 in great detail and with a good knowledge of France and its inhabitants, albeit not without nationalistic undertones, appeared in several editions. a. in an illustrated small youth edition. The anecdotally constructed war memories by no means conceal the atrocities and hardships of war, but subordinate them to the experience of comradeship and unification of the empire.

Zeitz was the owner of a brewery named after him and a member of the municipal council and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Meiningen. Karl Zeitz financed the construction of the Henneberger House , in the basement of which he ran an inn.

In the well-known Thuringian spa town of Liebenstein (from 1906 Bad), Karl Zeitz ran a brewery together with the innkeeper Georg Heym on the estate. The brewery was run on a lease from 1850 to 1877, Zeitz was probably not a partial tenant until between 1864 and 1877.

From 1884 to 1890 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen 1 ( Meiningen , Hildburghausen ) for the National Liberal Party .

Until 1990 there was a Karl-Zeitz-Straße in Meiningen.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Zeitz: War memories of a campaign volunteer 1870-1871. Altenburg 1905. p. 1ff.
  2. ↑ http://heimatfreundebali.jimdo.com/heimatgeschichte/gaststätten/felsenkeller/
  3. ^ 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. 281.

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personal data
SURNAME Zeitz, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brewery owner and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Salting
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1912
Place of death Meiningen