Otto Fries

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Otto Fries (born March 22, 1849 in Berka ; † August 24, 1905 on board a mail steamer near Lome ) was a forester and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Fries was the son of Hugo Friedrich Fries and attended the Zenkersche Institute in Jena , the grammar school in Weimar , the Keilhau educational institute , the secondary school in Weimar (school leaving certificate), the Eisenach forestry school from 1867 to 1869 and the universities of Jena and Zurich from 1872 to 1874 . He completed a forestry apprenticeship in Auma , became a forestry assistant in 1869, forestry assistant in 1881 and head forester in 1889. Between 1879 and 1886 he was a road network layer for the Forest Taxation Commission in Eisenach. He fulfilled his military duty as a one-year volunteer with the 11th Jäger Battalion ( Franco-German War 1870/71 ) and was captain of the Landwehr.

From 1903 until his death he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach 2 ( Eisenach , Dermbach ) and the National Liberal Party . In 1905 he died while members of the Reichstag were traveling to the German colonies on a mail steamer. He was buried in the German cemetery in Lome.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1386-1393.
  2. ↑ http://ringelnatz-verein.de/otto-fries-1849-1905-nennonkel-von-ringelnatz/

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personal data
SURNAME Fries, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forester and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Berka
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1905
Place of death on board a mail steamer near Lomé