Otto Stellter Explained

Otto Stellter (22 July 1823 - 21 August 1894) was a German jurist who went into politics, sitting as a member of the national Reichstag (parliament) (FKP) between 1878 and 1881.[1] [2]

Life

Otto Theodor Friedrich Stellter was born at Königsberg in East Prussia. Between 1840 and 1843 he studied jurisprudence at the city's university and at the Frederick-William University (as the "Humboldt" was then known) in Berlin.[2] At Königsberg he was a member of the Pappenhemia student fraternity.[3] He qualified as a lawyer in 1849.[2] In January 1849 he embarked on a career in Königsberg as a lawyer and notary.[2]

In July 1878 he entered the German Reichstag (parliament), representing the third Königsberg electoral district which covered the central part of the city, and sitting as a member of the conservative National Party ("Deutsche Reichspartei").[1] As a parliamentarian he sat on several parliamentary commissions.[1] However, at the next general election, which took place in October 1881, he lost his Königsberg seat to of the Progressive Party.[4]

Otto Stellter died on 21 August 1894 at Neuhäuser, a small town on the coastal strip of land separating the "Frisches Haff" (as the Vistula Lagoon was then known) from the sea.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Personendaten - Otto Stellter. Parlamentarierportal (BIOPARL). Zentrum für Historische Sozialforschung, Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften ("gesis"). 24 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103717/http://zhsf.gesis.org/ParlamentarierPortal/biorabkr_db/biorabkr_db.php?id=2395. 4 March 2016. dead.
  2. Web site: Stellter, Otto Theodor Friedrich. 233. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. 13 September 1878. 24 April 2016.
  3. [Johann August Hermann (John) Koch|John Koch]
  4. Web site: Möller, Julius Otto Ludwig. 185. 14. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach. 1881. 24 April 2016.