Oswin Schmidt

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Oswin Eugen Schmidt (born December 31, 1855 in Dittmannsdorf ; † December 7, 1922 in Dresden ) was a German politician ( Conservative State Association in Saxony , DNVP ) and from 1907 to 1922 a member of the Saxon state parliament.

Life

Schmidt was born as the son of the landowner Karl Gotthelf Schmidt. After attending elementary school in Dittmannsdorf and grammar school in Freiberg , he became a farmer and worked as a civil servant on several manors. From 1885 to 1893 he was the owner of a lease in Langhennersdorf near Freiberg. In 1893 Schmidt, who in the same year was one of the participants in the founding assembly of the Federation of Farmers (BdL), took over the management of the association's office in Freiberg. He had previously been a member of the German Farmers' Union . Schmidt significantly built up the structures of the BdL in Saxony and had been director of the BdL for the Kingdom of Saxony since 1897 . From 1921 until his death, Schmidt was managing director of the Saxon Land Association .

Schmidt was involved in local politics from 1907 to 1909 as a city councilor and from 1914 to 1919 as an unpaid city councilor in Freiberg. From 1907-1918 Schmidt belonged to the Conservative national association in Saxony II. Chamber of the Saxon Parliament , 1919-20 the Saxon People's Chamber , and then from 1920 until his death for the German National People's Party again the Saxon parliament in.

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 , pp. 460–461.

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Individual evidence

  1. Schmidt, Oswin Eugen. In: Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament. Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden , accessed on December 5, 2016 . The membership in Chamber II in 1883/84 is not mentioned in Döscher / Schröder and is probably incorrect.