Theodor Hassmann

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Theodor Karl Hassmann (also Theodor Haßmann) (born February 17, 1825 in Podersam , † September 17, 1894 in Saaz ) was a German-Bohemian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Bohemian Landtag and the Imperial Council and mayor of Saaz.

Life

Hassmann was born in Podersam in 1825 as the son of the Magistrate Ferdinand Haßmann and Maria Very from Prague. Theodor was married to Mathilda Schuppler, born in 1823 in the Principality of Liechtenstein, daughter of the local bailiff and later in Hohenstadt (Moravia) chief and judicial officer Josef Schuppler and Anna S. geb. Zelinka. From the Hassmann-Schuppler marriage there are two children including a son, Dr. jur. Egmont Haßmann (1852–1886) son-in-law of Eleonora Mik née Horsky von Horskysfeld.

In 1848 he was elected to the German National Assembly in Frankfurt . He initially worked as a lawyer and began to get involved in state and imperial politics in the early 1860s.

With the October diploma (1860) and the February patent (1861) of Emperor Franz Joseph I , new diets and the new Reichsrat (national legislature) were convened in the Austrian crown lands . In 1861 Hassmann was elected to the second curia (cities and chambers of commerce) of the Bohemian state parliament in the Saaz- Kaaden electoral district . He went into the election as an independent German candidate, without the official support of the German election committee. In the same constituency he was also elected to the state parliament in 1867. He was re-elected in 1870 and 1872. At that time he was also a member of the Reichsrat, where he was sent by the state parliament in 1861. The members of the Reichsrat were not elected, but sent to the Chamber of Deputies of the Reichsrat as delegates from the state parliament . He represented the cities and industrial locations in the Saaz - Kaaden constituency. Politically, he was considered a representative of the German constitutional party and a supporter of German liberalism .

Hassmann was mayor of Saaz from 1861 to 1876 and was later made an honorary citizen of Saaz and other cities. In the 1870s he was co-editor of the liberal weekly “Saazer Zeitung”. He was committed to the economic upturn in the region and supported the construction of the railway to Saaz, among other things, he was the concessionaire of the kk privileged railway Pilsen – Priesen (–Komotau) (EPPK).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the North Bohemian Scientific Library in Ústí nad Labem (accessed June 24, 2015)
  2. ↑ Session of the Bohemian Diet on February 19, 1867 (accessed June 24, 2015)
  3. ↑ Session of the Bohemian Diet on April 6, 1867 (accessed June 24, 2015)
  4. ↑ Session of the Bohemian Diet on August 31, 1870 (accessed June 24, 2015)
  5. ↑ Session of the Bohemian Diet on April 27, 1872 (accessed June 24, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Hassmann, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassmann, Theodor Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Podersam
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1894
Place of death Saaz