Michael Baerst

Michael Baerst, 1911

Michael Baerst (born April 8, 1856 in Mundolsheim , † March 29, 1923 in Strasbourg ) was a farmer and liberal politician.

Michael Baerst, who was of Protestant denomination, was the son of the farmer Michel Baerst and his wife Eve nee Bauer. He married Marie Riehl in 1879.

Michael Baerst attended the private institute Prof. Knoertzer in Nancy from 1869 and attended academic lectures there. In 1871 the Franco-German War ended and the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine was formed. In 1873 he served as a one-year volunteer and in 1877 was reserve officer of the 2nd Chev. Regiment and 1911 lieutenant in the Landwehr Reserve a. D. From 1886 he was a local councilor, from 1892 a church councilor and member of the Bendenheim consistory . From 1901 he was chairman of the agricultural district association Strasbourg-Land, from 1896 a member of the Agriculture Council and deputy member of the German Agriculture Council .

In 1911 he was elected by the Agriculture Council of Alsace-Lorraine (Lower Alsace) to the first chamber of the Landtag of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . He was a member of the state parliament until 1918. Michael Baerst became a member of the high school council in 1914.

From 1913 to 1923 he was a member of the senior consistory and from 1920 to 1923 the board of the Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine . After the war he was a substitute member of the Tribunal for War Damage (Tribunal des dommages de guerre pour l`Alsace et la Lorraine) from 1919 to 1923.

He published irregularly in the liberal " Strassburger Neue Zeitung ".

literature

• Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mulhouse 1911, p. 136
• Alfred Wahl: Entry Michel Baerst in: Christian Baechler: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, Vol. 2, p. 87 (French)