Robert Georgi

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Robert Georgi (1802-1869)

Robert Georgi (born November 11, 1802 in Dresden , † November 13, 1869 in Mylau ) was a German entrepreneur and politician. He was a member of both chambers of the Saxon state parliament , president of the first chamber and Saxon finance minister .

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The son of the Saxon war council Christian Friedrich Georgi (1769–1825) and his wife Wilhelmine Elisabeth born. After finishing school, Bassenge began an apprenticeship at the Leipzig trading house Thierrot and Bassenge , to whose owners there were family ties. Through a colleague he got in touch with the Mylau entrepreneur and banker Christian Gotthelf Brückner (1769–1834), who had built and owned the first Vogtland cotton mill . First he was accepted into the company as a commercial clerk. After marrying Brückner's daughter Emilie (1801–1879), he and his brother-in-law August Gotthelf Brückner joined the company as a partner in 1829.

Due to his interdependence in the Vogtland entrepreneurship, he won a mandate for the first time for the Landtag in 1839/40 as a representative of the trade and factory class in the Second Chamber of the Saxon Landtag , where he made a name for himself in the liberal camp during the pre-March . His contemporary Bernhard Hirschel called him the leader of the Juste Milieu , which stood between the liberal and conservative camps.

After the Saxon government under Julius von Könneritz resigned on March 13, 1848 due to the March riots , the Saxon king appointed a new cabinet under the leadership of Karl Braun , of which Georgi was finance minister. He resigned his mandate in the Second Chamber. The liberal government tried to defy the election success of the Democrats in December 1848 due to the liberalization of the electoral law , but had to resign at the end of February 1849 after cooperation with the state parliament had proven to be impossible.

In the state elections in the autumn of 1849 he was elected to Chamber I, where he immediately took over as President of the Chamber. This parliament, also known as the resistance state parliament, was dissolved by the Saxon government at the beginning of June 1850, and the electoral reforms of 1848 were repealed. The government under Ferdinand Zschinsky called the restituted pre-March state parliament again, in which Georgi did not take the seat he was entitled to. Unlike Franz Xaver Rewitzer and Hermann Joseph , his right to stand as a candidate was not subsequently withdrawn. In the state parliaments from 1851/52 to 1863/64 he took up a mandate in the second chamber as a representative of the 5th constituency of trade and industry. After retiring from politics, he also left his company in 1865, which he transferred to his son Arthur Georgi (1843–1900), who was later also a member of the state parliament.

His son Otto Georgi (1831-1918) was a national liberal politician. During his career he was u. a. Lord Mayor of Leipzig, member of the Saxon state parliament and member of the Reichstag.

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SURNAME Georgi, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1869
Place of death Mylau