Otto Elben

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Otto Elben

Hermann Otto Karl Elben (born January 30, 1823 in Stuttgart , † April 28, 1899 there ) was a German journalist and politician .

He was the publisher of the Swabian Merkur , co-founder of the Swabian Singers Association and initiator of the Gäubahn from Stuttgart to Freudenstadt with the connection of Böblingen to the rail network.

Life

After attending grammar school in Stuttgart, Otto Elben trained as a bookseller with Karl Baedeker in Koblenz. From April 1841 to December 1844 he studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1844 he became a member of the Walhalla fraternity .

After his first legal exam, Otto Elben became a trainee lawyer at the court in Esslingen. In 1845 he continued his legal clerkship at the Stuttgart Criminal Senate and completed it at the Stuttgart City Court.

After several stays abroad, Otto Elben became a member of the editorial team of the daily Schwäbischer Merkur in October 1847 . After the death of his father in 1854, Otto Elben became the chief editor and publisher of Schwäbischer Merkurs , the Stuttgart daily founded by his grandfather Christian Gottfried Elben . Otto Elben carried out the duties of publisher and chief editor until 1894.

Otto Elben was politically active from 1868 to 1882 as a member of parliament for the Böblingen district in the royal Württemberg state parliament . From 1871 to 1876 he was also a member of the Reichstag . He won his Reichstag mandate in the constituency of Württemberg 4 ( Böblingen , Vaihingen , Leonberg , Maulbronn ). In the Reichstag he belonged to the faction of the National Liberals .

Elben, together with the local representatives organized in railway committees, campaigned for the construction of a railway line from Stuttgart via Böblingen and Eutingen im Gäu to Freudenstadt, which was finally decided in 1874. Böblingen granted him honorary citizenship for his efforts and still honors him today with the "Elbenplatz" and a memorial. The city ​​of Wangen in the Allgäu also honored Otto Elben in 1880 with the award of honorary citizenship for his services to the construction of the railway between Wangen and Kißlegg .

Otto Elben was buried in Section 5 at the Pragfriedhof in Stuttgart. The singing clubs in the Boeblingen district keep an honorable memory of Otto Elben as a co-founder of the Swabian and German Singers ' Association . In 1934 the Otto-Elben-Kreis was formed within the association and today the choir association bears the name Chorverband Otto Elben eV

Works

  • Otto Elben: Memoirs of life 1823–1899 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1931.
  • Otto Elben: The popular German male song . Reprint. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1991.

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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. 249.
  2. ^ 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, p. 238