Hugo Friedrich Fries
Hugo Friedrich Fries | |
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 Portrait of Hugo Friedrich Fries, c. 1870 | |
| Mayor of Bad Berka | |
| In office 1848–1850 | |
| Chairman of the Municipal Council of Weimar | |
| In office 1862–1874 | |
| President of the Landtag of Thuringia | |
| In office 1865–1889 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 January 1818 Jena, German Confederation |
| Died | 25 March 1889 (aged 71) Weimar, German Empire |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | National Liberal Party |
| Parent(s) | Jakob Friedrich Fries Eleonore Fries |
| Education | University of Göttingen University of Jena |
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Hugo Friedrich Fries (/ˈhjuɡoʊ ˈfridrɪk fraɪz/;[1] German pronunciation: [hu:gɔ fri:drɪç fri:s];[2] 9 January 1818 – 25 March 1889). sometimes spelt Frieze, was a German judge, and son of Jakob Friedrich Fries. Before and after the founding of the German Reich, he was a member of the Reichstag. His son, Otto Fries (1849–1905), a forester, was also a member of the Reichstag.[3]
Life
[edit]Fries studied law at the University of Göttingen and the University of Jena (1837–1840). After graduating, he joined the civil service of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. He was a lawyer in Berka from 1845 to 1850, and became its mayor from 1848 to 1850. He then moved to Weimar in 1850 and continued working there as a lawyer, later becoming a member of the municipal council in 1853. He become one of the founders of the German National Association in 1859. He became a member of the National Liberal Party of Germany from 1870 onwards.
He was a member of the Thuringian Landtag and became its president from 1865 to 1889. In February 1867 he arrived in the Reichstag (North German Confederation) and the Customs Parliament.[4] From the general election in 1871 until the general election in 1874 he sat for the National Liberal Party in Reichstag. He was a representative of the constituency Weimar 1 (Weimar-Apolda).[5]
Honors
[edit]- Honorary citizen of Weimar (1874)
- Honorary citizen of Bad Berka (1886)
References
[edit]- ^ "toPhonetics". toPhonetics. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ^ "Automatic Phonemic Transcriber". tom.brondsted.dk. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ^ "Verhandlungen des Deutschen Reichstags". www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
- ^ Reichstag of the North German Federation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical manual. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1989, photo p. 130, short biography p. 404 (Photodocuments on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, Volume 2)
- ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. A statistic of the Reichstag elections along with the programs of the parties and a list of elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Verlag Carl Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 272.
Sources
[edit]- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Dictionary of the German fraternity. Volume I: Politicians. Subchapter 7: Supplement A-K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4, pp. 341–342
- Hermann Kalkoff (ed.): National Liberal parliamentarians 1867-1917 of the Reichstag and the Einzellandtage. Scripture Distribution Office of the National Liberal Party of Germany, Berlin 1917 (with picture)
- Bernd Haunfelder, Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical Photographs and Biographical Handbook (= Photographic Documents on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 (with picture).
External links
[edit]- Historical-Political Yearbook of 1880
- Hugo Friedrich Fries in the database of the Reichstag deputies (in German)
- Biography of Hugo Friedrich Fries (in German)
- Wer War Hugo Fries? (pdf file)
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