Richard Ludwig (politician)

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Richard Ludwig (born February 7, 1822 in Groitzsch , † June 9, 1909 in Glauchau ) was a German lawyer and politician ( German Progressive Party ). He was a member of the Reichstag and a member of the Saxon state parliament .

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Ludwig attended the Nicolaischule in Leipzig from 1835 to 1840 and then studied law at the University of Leipzig until 1844 . During his studies in 1841 he became a member of the Markomannia Leipzig fraternity . In 1845 he passed the first state examination in law. From 1846 to 1849 he was director of a patrimonial court . After the May Uprising in Dresden , he fled to Switzerland in May 1849 . There he worked for six years as a professor of Latin, Greek and German at the college in Orbe . In 1862 he was able to return to the Kingdom of Saxony and settled in Chemnitz . There he worked as a lawyer , as a notary and as an unpaid city councilor.

As a representative of the 30th rural constituency, he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament from 1869 to 1873 and then until his job-related resignation on September 17, 1877 as a representative of the 11th urban constituency. In a by-election, Julius Lasse was then chosen as his successor. From 1871 to 1874 he also represented the 16th Saxon constituency (Chemnitz) in the German Reichstag .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 52-53.
  • 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 ( excerpt ).
  • Werner-Georg Stoÿa, Kurt Noack: Free sons of the Muses . Manners and customs of the students in Leipzig from their roots to the fraternity. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-43916-4 , pp. 321-322 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (DFP), MdR, member of the state parliament in the Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Groitzsch
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1909
Place of death Glauchau