Max Weber Sr.

Max Weber ( born May 31, 1836 in Bielefeld, † August 10, 1897 in Riga) was a German lawyer, municipal officials and National Liberal politician.

Weber came from the Bielefeld Handelspatriziat. His brother was the Oerlinghauser entrepreneur Carl David Weber. Weber studied in Göttingen, where he joined the fraternity Hannovera joined, and in Berlin. After doctorate in law. utr. and the Second State Exam, he worked briefly at the city council of Berlin.

Between 1862 and 1869 he was a salaried city council in Erfurt. After that he was in a similar position until 1893 in Berlin, lived, however, in the then independent Charlottenburg.

He was a leading member of the National Liberal Party and was a member of the central board of directors. Between 1872 and 1877 ( Constituency Coburg ), 1879 and 1881 ( Constituency Magdeburg City ) and 1881-1884 ( constituency wood Minden- Gander home ) was a weaver member of the Reichstag. The Prussian House he served on from 1868 to 1882 ( Constituency Erfurt) and 1884-1892 ( constituency Oschersleben Halberstadt - Wernigerode ).

Weber was a member of the National Debt Commission, and the Prussian debt commission.

He authored a number of smaller political writings and work on local statistics.

With Helene Weber, born Fallstein (1844-1919), whom he married in 1863, he had eight children, six of whom reached adulthood, including the sociologist Max and Alfred Weber, Karl Weber was an architect, the youngest son Arthur (1877 - 1952) officer. The oldest surviving daughter Clara (1875-1953) married the doctor Ernst Mommsen (1863-1930), a son of Theodor Mommsen.

Max Weber sen. resting in a family grave in the cemetery of the IV community in Jerusalem and New Church at the Bergmann Strasse in Berlin -Kreuzberg, where his wife and Clara and Ernst Mommsen were buried.