Theodor Tantzen the Elder

Theodor Johann Tantzen (sen) (born March 14, 1834 in Greenland ; † February 9, 1893 in Heering ad Weser ) was a farmer and liberal politician in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

family

The Tantzen farming family was one of the dignitaries of the Oldenburg region . His father Hergen Tantzen (1789–1853) was a member of the Oldenburg state parliament . Two of his eight children were also known as politicians: Ernst Tantzen (1857–1926) was President of the State Parliament and Theodor Tantzen the Younger (1877–1947) was Prime Minister of Oldenburg from 1919 to 1923 and 1945 to 1946. To distinguish it from his son of the same name, Theodor Tantzen was usually added with the addition sen. marked.

Theodor Tantzen's mother was Hergen Tantzen's second wife, Margarethe Rebecca née Müller (March 26, 1789 to December 6, 1848). She was the daughter of the businessman Heinrich Müller and his wife Anna Rebecka nee Hedden.

Theodor Tantzen married Anna Magdalene Lührs on May 18, 1855 (October 26, 1835 to June 19, 1919), the daughter of the househusband Ortgies Lührs and his wife Hiske née Meinen. The daughter Henriette (1862–1941) married the bank director Carl Wilhelm Jaspers (1850–1940). The philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) is the child of this couple.

Life

Theodor Tantzen grew up in Heering and attended the elementary school in Abbehausen and the high school in Varel . Then, at the continued insistence of his father, he decided to take an agricultural apprenticeship. In 1855 he took over his father's farm, which, with a size of around 50 hectares, meant economic independence and enabled him to be politically active at the municipal and state level.

As a member of the Progressive Party , he was elected to the Oldenburg state parliament in December 1866. There he was a member until 1869 and again in 1872 until his death in 1893. In the state parliament he was a member of the finance commission. In addition, he was involved as a member of the municipal council, the school council and the district council and was also a member of the central board of the Oldenburg Agricultural Society .

He died of gastrointestinal cancer in February 1893 after two serious operations.

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• Albrecht Eckhardt : From the bourgeois revolution to the National Socialist takeover. The Oldenburg State Parliament and its deputies 1848–1933. Isensee, Oldenburg 1996, ISBN 3-89598-327-6 , p. 109 ( Oldenburger Forschungen NF 1).
• Hans Friedl: Tantzen, Theodor Johann. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 730 ( online ).