Theodor Gottfried Liesching

Theodor Gottfried Read Ching ( born August 14, 1865 in Stuttgart, † July 25, 1922 in Böblingen ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

He was the son of the publishing bookseller Hermann Theodor Read Ching (1821-1871) and the Caecilie Susanne Luise Regenbrecht (1840-1915) and was a member of the Evangelical Church. After attending high school in Stuttgart, he studied law in Tübingen and Wroclaw. In Tübingen, he was a member of the Turnerschaft Hohenstaufia (now in CC). In the years 1890 to 1891 was Lie Ching lawyer in Stuttgart and then from 1891 to 1917 in Tübingen. From 1917 to 1918 he served as a senior executive officer at the Württemberg Embassy in Berlin.

Policy

From 1901 to 1918 he knew a parliamentary seat in the Second Chamber of the Württemberg Landtag. From 1912 to 1918 he was also a member of the Reichstag. In the Reichstag, he represented the constituency of Württemberg 8 ( Freudenstadt, Horb, Oberdorf, Sulz ). Read Ching was nominated in 1912 as the common candidate of the National Liberals and the Progressive People's Party. In the runoff election, he sat down with the help of the Social Democrats against the conservative candidate.

From 7 to 9 November 1918 was Lie Ching last royal Württemberg Minister President ( President of the State Ministry ) as well as foreign and justice ministers. As a member of the Progressive People's Party ( who had the Württemberg People's Party in 1910 connected), he was in late 1918 with the founding of the DDP.

From November 10 1918 to 20 February 1922, he worked as a Württemberg Minister of Finance in the Cabinets of Blos and Hieber. From 1919 to 1920 he was a member as a deputy of the Württemberg Constituent State Assembly from 1920 to 1922 and the Württemberg Landtag. He died in 1922 in a long-term lung disease.