Lothar argument

Lothar argument

Lothar Ottokar Wilhelm Streit (born February 6, 1823 in Gera , † June 2, 1898 in Zwickau ) was a politician of the German Progressive Party . He was the first Lord Mayor of Zwickau and a member of the Saxon State Parliament and the German Reichstag .

Live and act

The son of the Princely Schönburg court counselor and personal physician Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (1785–1871) spent his childhood in Waldenburg (Saxony) . From 1834 to 1841 he attended grammar school in Altenburg and then began studying law at the University of Leipzig , which he successfully completed in 1845. After briefly working as a legal candidate in Waldenburg, he completed practical training with various lawyers (including in Leisnig , Kamenz and Plauen and with Wilhelm Schaffrath in Neustadt in Saxony ). In 1849 he was appointed mayor of Auerbach , where he settled as a legal candidate. In March 1851 he moved to Zwickau as a lawyer . In 1860 he was elected mayor there and in 1874 was appointed the first mayor of the western Saxon city. He held this office until May 1, 1898. He died a few weeks later.

Streit had been one of the leading representatives of the Progress Party in the Kingdom of Saxony since the end of the 1860s and of the "Saxon Chamber Progress" since the mid-1880s. As a representative of the constituency encompassing the city of Zwickau, he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament from 1869 to 1898 . During this time he served as Vice-President of the Chamber. He was also a member of the Reichstag from July 1878 to October 1881 as a member of the 18th Saxon constituency .

Honors

Lothar-Streit monument in the Schwanenteichpark

In 1885 he was made an honorary citizen of Zwickau. In 1897 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (Dr. jur. Hc) by the law faculty of the University of Leipzig . The Lothar-Streit memorial was consecrated in the Schwanenteichpark on May 25, 1901. The granite cube bears a medallion image of Streits, which was created by the Leipzig sculptor Carl Seffner .

Web links

• Lothar Streit in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Lothar Streit - Zwickau's first mayor

literature

• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952. Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2001, p. 130.
• 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. 477-478.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Academic honorary degrees. archiv.uni-leipzig.de, archived from the original on February 26, 2012 ; Retrieved April 7, 2014 . 
2. ↑ City of Zwickau website: Lothar Streit - Zwickau's First Lord Mayor (accessed on April 11, 2018)