Louis Jordan (politician)

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Louis Jordan (born September 17, 1837 in Berlin ; † December 6, 1902 there ) was a farmer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Jordan was the offspring of a Huguenot family and a member of the French colony in Berlin. He attended the agricultural academy and university in Jena from 1859 to 1861. Between 1856 and 1859 and from 1862 to 1864 he had learned agriculture on various estates in the Mark and Silesia and in 1864 bought the Lindenhoff estate near Rawitsch . He owned this until 1874, then only moved to Glogau and in 1888 to Berlin. In Glogau he was a member from 1876 to 1888, from 1880 to 1888 head of the city council, member of the debt deputation, the savings bank board of trustees and the district council. From 1889 he was the first chairman of the Berlin Craftsmen Association and publisher of the people's calendar "The Good Comrade".

From 1890 to 1893 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Liegnitz  1 Grünberg , Freystadt and the German Reich Party .

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