Otto Fries
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
- ^ 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.
- ↑ http://ringelnatz-verein.de/otto-fries-1849-1905-nennonkel-von-ringelnatz/
Web links
- Otto Fries in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Otto Fries biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
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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 |