Samuel Dörr

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Samuel Dörr (1900)

Samuel Dörr (born August 3, 1824 in Leschkirch , Transylvania , † August 1, 1911 ibid) was a Transylvanian administrative officer and politician in Austria-Hungary.

Life

Eleonore Dörr
Gravestone of the Dörrs

Samuel Dörr's parents were the forest master of the same name at the Leschkircher Stuhl and his wife Susanna Elisabetha, née Weber (1794–1851), a pastor's daughter from Agnita .

Dörr attended the mountain school in Schäßburg . After graduating from high school, he studied at the Friedrichs University in Halle . With Oskar Schade , he was one of the founders of the Corps Normannia-Halle in 1846 . Afterwards I was at the Technical University of Dresden for a while . In the Hungarian Revolution he fought as a captain in the Landsturm for the Habsburgs . He entered the service of the Danube Monarchy and worked from 1851 to 1861 in the (German) districts of Großschenk and Freck as a chancellery, then as an actuary . In Unter-Szombat he found his partner Eleonore Benkner (1833–1890), daughter of an accounting clerk who came from a patrician family in Kronstadt .

Leschkirch

In 1864 Dörr was appointed assessor at the Leschkirch Chair Office. In ecclesiastical and political committees, he campaigned for the residents of the former chair communities - Transylvanian Saxons and Romanians alike. For decades he was presbyter , from 1863 to 1910 curator of the Leschkirch parish. He also represented the community in the Leschkirch political community . In the Leschkirch chair assembly he had been a councilor since 1867. From 1871 he represented the Leschkirch chair in the Saxon University of Nations in Transylvania . There he was on the school commission (1881-1890) and then until 1904 in the financial and economic commission.

The gravestone of the Dörr couple has been preserved and is in the Leschkircher cemetery.

MP

From 1872 to 1906 he was a member of the Reichstag (Hungary) for Leschkirch . After the "smashing of the king's soil" and the new state division into counties and districts (1876) Dörr represented the Leschkirch constituency in the county assembly of Sibiu County .

children

Dörr's wife died in 1890 at the age of 57. The son Albert (1858–1932) became prefect in Sibiu in 1918 . The other son, Samuel, was a general in the Joint Army . The daughters were Eleanor married. v. Lemeny and Viktorine .

Honors

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Edling: Samuel Dörr (Leschkirch)
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 102/3
  3. ^ The county reform of 1876 and the Saxon nation (EBSEES)
  4. ↑ GoogleBooks
personal data
SURNAME Dörr, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Leschkirch , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1911
Place of death Leschkirch , Transylvania