Louis Ernst

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Louis Ernst , also Ludwig Ernst , (born September 2, 1839 in Siegen ; † January 2, 1900 there ) was a member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Ernst graduated from secondary school in his hometown and studied natural sciences , especially chemistry , in Bonn and Heidelberg . Academic teachers included Robert Bunsen and Emil Erlenmeyer . In 1857 he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . In 1860 he received his doctorate. phil. He took as Seconde Lieutenant of Reserve and Landwehr - Infantry in the campaigns of 1866 and 1870-71 in part.

In November 1874 he became a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency Arnsberg 1 (Siegen, Wittgenstein , Biedenkopf ) and the National Liberal Party through a by-election for the resigned Heinrich von Achenbach , he kept this mandate until 1878. He was the head of the city council in Siegen. From 1890 to 1899 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia for the constituency of Siegen .

In Siegen he was later director of the meadow construction school . Ernst was chairman of the local city council and member of the district assembly from 1889 to 1900. A street in Siegen near the former meadow construction school is named after him.

The Siegen-Wittgenstein district archive recently acquired around sixty letters from Ernst, which he wrote to his parents during the war of 1866. The letters have been restored because of their poor condition.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 262.
  2. ↑ Compare short biography in: Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach . 12th edition. As of February 13, 1877. Verlag G. Hirth, Leipzig 1877, p. 147.
  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, pp. 139f; see. also A. Phillips (Ed.): The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1883. Statistics of the elections for the constituent and North German Reichstag, for the customs parliament, as well as for the first five legislative periods of the German Reichstag. Louis Gerschel publishing house, Berlin 1883, p. 88.
  4. ↑ The horror of war: Field Post in Siegen. In: The West. July 27, 2016.

literature

  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 5, Reimer, Berlin 1903.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 262-263.
  • Hermann Kalkoff (Ed.): National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual state parliaments. Publication distribution center of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917.
  • Josef Häming (editor), Alfred Bruns (ed.): The members of the Westphalia parliament 1826–1978. Addendum 1983. (= Westphalian source and archive directories. Volume 9). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1984, p. 263. (with picture)
  • Ludwig Burwitz, Armin Nassauer, Olaf Wagener (eds.): The German War of 1866. The field post letters of the soldier Louis Ernst. Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66658-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernst, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1900
Place of death Wins