Christian Riedel
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Christian Riedel (31 January 1804, Luptin – 30 September 1882, Zittau)[1] was a German politician active in the Kingdom of Saxony where he led the left liberals of the German Progress Party in the 1867 Reichstag elections. He was known as "Old Riedel".[2] He was elected for the Zittau Reichstag constituency in the February and August elections of 1867. In 1873 he was elected to the Landtag of the Kingdom of Saxony.
Riedel was a landowner and a farmer. He was self-taught and became politically active during the 1848 Revolution.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Verhandlungen des Deutschen Reichstags". www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de. Bayerische Staats Bibliothek. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Retallack, James (2017). Red Saxony : Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199668786.
- ^ "Sachsens freisinnige Volksvertreter". Die Gartenlaube (36): 578–9. 1873.
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