Theodor Meyer (politician)
Theodor Meyer (born December 5, 1861 in Sundern , † April 30, 1944 in Levern ) was a Protestant clergyman and a member of the German Reichstag .
Life
Meyer was the son of a cantor. He attended the Ulricianum high school in Aurich from 1873 to 1881 , and the universities of Tübingen , Leipzig , Berlin and Bonn until 1884 . On June 13, 1886, he was ordained as an assistant preacher at the Simeons and Garrison Church in Minden , then he was a prison chaplain in Dortmund . On April 1, 1888, he entered the Prussian prison service and worked as a prison chaplain at the penal institutions in Lichtenburg near Torgau and Sonnenburg and from 1895 to 1925 at the cell prison in Herford . Subsequently, he worked as a senior pastor at the Berlin-Moabit remand prison until his retirement on April 1, 1927 .
From 1912 to 1918 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Minden 2 Herford , Halle (Westphalia) and the National Liberal Party .
After the First World War , Meyer joined the German People's Party (DVP). In the 1920s he was chairman of the Reichsbeamtenausschuss of the DVP. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the Prussian state constituent assembly and in February 1921 he was elected as a member of the Prussian state parliament, to which he belonged until the end of the third electoral term in 1932.
literature
- Ernst Kienast (edit.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag. Edition for the 3rd electoral term. R. v. Decker's Verlag (G. Schenck), Berlin 1928. P. 564.
- Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? - Our contemporaries. IX. Output. Verlag Herrmann Degener, Leipzig 1928. P. 1049.
- Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 138f.
Web links
- Meyer, Theodor in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Theodor Meyer . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imperial Statistical Office (Ed.): The Reichstag elections of 1912 . Issue 2. Berlin: Verlag von Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1913, p. 92 (Statistics of the German Reich, Vol. 250)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant clergyman and politician (NLP, DVP), MdR, MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sundern |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1944 |
| Place of death | Levern |