Philipp Steyer

Karl Philipp Steyer (born March 5, 1839 in Naundorf near Freiberg, † November 26, 1907 in Dresden ) was a German manor owner and conservative politician .

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Steyer first attended elementary school in Naundorf before he switched to the community school in Freiberg . He then completed an agricultural apprenticeship in a company that had a grinding and cutting mill and a timber trade. From 1854 to 1857 he attended the higher trade school in Chemnitz , where he again devoted himself to the agricultural department. He completed his agricultural practice on his father Carl Gottlob Steyer's farm. In 1864 he bought the manor in his home village Naundorf, which included 106 hectares of land. He later became director of the local wood grinding shop.

He was initially a deputy member from 1876, and then from 1878 as a full member of the administrative board of the Agricultural Credit Association in the Kingdom of Saxony . From 1889 until his death he represented the 15th rural constituency in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament . In 1905 he was referred to as the Economic Council.

His brothers Heinrich Steyer (1834–1887) and Ernst Steyer (1842–1900) were also conservative members of the state parliament .

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 , p. 475.