Oskar Schanz

Oskar Schanz (born December 27, 1868 in Oelsnitz / Vogtl. , † May 27, 1920 ibid) was a German lawyer and conservative politician .

Life and work

The son of the lawyer and notary Oskar Schanz sen. Oelsnitz at the studied 1889-1893 University of Leipzig law . In September 1893 he took up his first position as an actuary at the Reichenbach / Vogtl district court. on. From March 1895 he was a trainee lawyer at the Frohburg district court , where he was responsible for legal affairs. He then switched to the public prosecutor's office at the Leipzig Regional Court as a trainee lawyer . In May 1896, Schanz joined his father's practice. As a doctor of law, he joined the Saxon administration in 1899 . From 1899 to January 1902 he was the community leader and then until September 1904 first mayor of the Erzgebirge town of Olbernhau , which had been granted town charter on January 1, 1902 . He then moved to his home town of Oelsnitz / Vogtl. As mayor, where he also worked as a lawyer . He last held the title of Justice Council.

In a by-election made necessary by the death of Gustav Richard Bunde , he was elected for the first time in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament in 1907 in the 45th rural constituency . In 1909/10 he held the post of second secretary in the state parliament, and from 1913 to 1918 that of the chamber's first secretary. With the abolition of the constitutional monarchy in Saxony , he left the state parliament in November 1918.

literature

• 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. 458.