Maximilian Mehnert

Wilhelm Maximilian Mehnert (born September 21, 1861 in Klösterlein near Aue , † February 17, 1941 in Dresden ) was a German politician. From 1915 to 1918 he was a member of the Saxon State Parliament ( Conservative State Association in Saxony ).

Live and act

The son of the Landtag member Karl Mehnert (1811-1885) was born and raised on the manor Klösterlein , which his father owned from 1848 to 1874. He attended the Vitzthumsche Gymnasium in Dresden and then studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Bonn between 1881 and 1884 . He completed a preparatory service at the district courts in Leipzig and Dresden . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. From 1885 he owned the hereditary court in Krögis near Meißen , which included 81 hectares of land.

First he worked as an assessor for the authorities in Bautzen , Glauchau (from 1894) and Borna (from 1897). In 1899 he became a Councilor in the Kreishauptmannschaft Zwickau appointed. At the same time he was active as a non-permanent member of the state insurance company. In 1901 he moved to the Leipzig district chief before he was appointed governor of Dippoldiswalde in 1903 . He held the same position in Plauen from 1909 to 1918 . In 1915 he was elected as a representative of the 44th rural constituency in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament and was a member of this until 1918.

From 1893 he was a full member of the Agricultural Credit Association for the Kingdom of Saxony , which his father had co-founded. In 1922 he succeeded his brother Paul Mehnert (1852-1922), also a member of the Saxon state parliament and between 1899 and 1909 President of the Second Chamber, chairman of the credit association and remained in this office until 1933.

literature

• Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952, Saxon State Parliament, Dresden 2001, p. 115.
• 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 , p. 425.