Theodor Joseph Blell

Theodor Josef Blell (born December 1, 1827 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † June 1, 1902 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German politician of the German Center Party and a member of the Reichstag .

Live and act

Tüngen manor house

His father was a manor on Tüngen . From 1839 to 1849 Blell attended high schools in Königsberg and Culm . He then studied law in Königsberg, Heidelberg and Breslau from 1849 to 1853 . In the summer semester of 1849 he became a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity . During his student days, he traveled extensively in Central Europe and visited Switzerland, Italy, France and Austria. From 1853 to 1855 he was a trainee lawyer at the Court of Appeal in Königsberg.

In 1855 he broke off his legal career and took over his father's manor as a farmer. Blell invested the proceeds of his possessions in an extensive weapons collection. The focus of his collection was the research of manufacturing techniques through the ages. In 1882 he left the Tüngen manor to his son and retired to Groß-Lichterfelde. In 1892 he sold his weapon collection to the Association for the Restoration of the Marienburg under Conrad Steinbrecht .

In the Diet Blell was 1871 Diet constituency Region Konigsberg 6 (brown mountain Heilenberg) selected. He did not join any faction and remained an independent clerical. He was a member of the Reichstag until 1874.

literature

Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanac. 9th edition, 1871
Christian Krollmann (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography. Volume 1, 1941

Web links

Theodor Joseph Blell in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Theodor Joseph Blell . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 4.

personal data
SURNAME	Blell, Theodor Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blell, Theodor Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	June 1, 1902
Place of death	Berlin-Lichterfelde

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 4.