Wilhelm Baumgarten (politician, 1828)

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Wilhelm Baumgarten (born March 19, 1828 in Wenzen ; † October 3, 1903 in Braunschweig ) was a German lawyer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Baumgarten attended the Progymnasium in Einbeck and the Gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel . From 1847 he studied law at the University of Göttingen and passed the first state examination in 1851 and the second in 1855. He entered the judicial service and became court secretary in Wolfenbüttel in 1855, assessor at the ducal district court of Hasselfelde in the Harz Mountains in 1861, and district judge in Holzminden in 1872 and district judge in Braunschweig in 1877 . There he was appointed district judge in 1879 and district court director in 1883. In Hasselfelde he was chairman of the city council and unpaid member of the city council, in Holzminden he was a member of the city council and its chairman. From 1864 to 1883 he was a member of the Brunswick State Assembly and in 1881 its 2nd President.

From 1884 to 1887 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Duchy of Braunschweig 3 ( Holzminden , Gandersheim ) and the German Progressive Party .

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Individual evidence

  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. 280.