Otto Sartorius (politician)

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Otto Sartorius (* 16th January 1842 in Darmstadt ; † 24. January 1911 in Mußbach , today Neustadt an der Weinstraße-Mußbach) was viticulture entrepreneur and member of the German Reichstag . His son of the same name (1892–1977) was his legacy as an entrepreneur and also a lecturer specializing in oenology .

family

In the Palatinate , Sartorius married Josef Kraetzer's sister, who was heir to a large winery , the Herrenhof , in the then wine-growing village of Mußbach . In his second marriage, Sartorius was married to Johanne Weddigen, who was born on April 19, 1865 in Elberfeld and was thus 23 years younger than her husband. The oenologist Otto Sartorius (1892–1977) named after his father came from the second marriage .

Education and civil service

Sartorius studied cameralia from 1860 to 1863 at the Universities of Heidelberg and Giessen . In 1862 he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Giessen . After graduating, he first entered the state service of the Grand Ducal Hesse and was from Hesse from 1868 to 1870 as chief customs controller at the then main customs office in Hamburg .

Viticulture and professional politics

In 1870 Sartorius left civil service. With regard to the Herrenhof estate in the Palatinate, he initially became a partner in his brother-in-law; In 1899, probably after his death, he took over the estate completely by paying off his relatives. He was not only a member of the municipal administration of Mußbach, but as a professional representative also chairman of the association for viticulture and wine trade of the Bavarian Palatinate as well as a member of the district committee for trade and commerce in Neustadt an der Haardt .

Member of the Reichstag

From 1903 to January 1906 Sartorius was a member of the German Reichstag for the Liberal People's Party for the constituency Pfalz 6, which included the present-day Kaiserslautern district and the Kirchheimbolanden district, which was dissolved in 1969 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Schumann: Sartorius, Otto (1892–1977). Society for the History of Wine , accessed on September 15, 2010 (portrait of Otto Sartorius jun.).
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 58 , 268.