# Julius Dickert

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**Julius Dickert** (25 June 1816 – 12 August 1896) was a teacher from [West Prussia](/source/West_Prussia) who later entered into politics.[1] After the [Unification](/source/Unification_of_Germany), he served as a [Progressive](/source/German_Progress_Party) member of the [national](/source/German_empire) [Reichstag](/source/Reichstag_(German_Empire)) between 1871 and 1878.[2]

## Life

**Julius Dickert** was born in [Neuteich](/source/Nowy_Staw),[3] a small town then in [West Prussia](/source/West_Prussia). He attended the protestant [Gymnasium (secondary school)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasien_in_Westpreu%C3%9Fen) at [Elbing](/source/Elbl%C4%85g), a short distance to the east, before progressing to the [University of Königsberg](/source/University_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg) where, starting in 1837, for three years he studied [Protestant Theology](/source/Protestant_Theology) then moving on to include [Philology](/source/Philology).[1] There is a water-colour portrait of Dickert included in the contents listing [Pages of Memory](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A4tter_der_Erinnerung_(Schmiedeberg)), a compilation of student portraits by [Wilhelm Schmiedeberg](/source/Wilhelm_Schmiedeberg) who was a contemporary at Königsberg, although the portrait itself is now missing.

For some time after this he taught at the [city's](/source/K%C3%B6nigsberg) prestigious [Burgschule (Castle School)](/source/Burgschule_(K%C3%B6nigsberg)). In 1859 he became a city councillor: he then served as leader of the council for the ten years between 1861 and 1871.[1] Julius Dickert participated in the [war](/source/Franco-Prussian_War) which opened the way for [German political unification](/source/Unification_of_Germany) after 1870.[2]

Dickert was a founder member of the [Progressive Party](/source/German_Progress_Party), established in 1861 to try and preserve the hopes for political liberalism that had been disappointed after the revolutionary stirrings of [1848](/source/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%80%9349). The [first general election](/source/1871_German_federal_election) of a united Germany was held in March 1871 and Dickert was elected as the member for Königsberg with nearly 55% of the constituency vote.[2] The [Progressive Party](/source/German_Progress_Party) ended up with 45 of the 382 seats in the Reichstag and Dickert served on the 7th parliamentary committee during the lifetime of the parliament, which lasted till the start of 1874.[2] He was re-elected for his [Königsberg](/source/K%C3%B6nigsberg) seat in the [1874 general election](/source/1874_German_federal_election), this time with more than 56% of the constituency vote, although nationally the [Progressive Party](/source/German_Progress_Party)'s share of the vote was barely changed.[2] He won the seat again in the [1877](/source/1877_German_federal_election), now aged 60, with a further increase in vote share.[2] However, the life of the 1877 parliament was cut short at the instigation of the [Chancellor](/source/Otto_von_Bismarck), and after the [1878 general election](/source/1878_German_federal_election) [Königsberg](/source/K%C3%B6nigsberg) was represented in the [Reichstag](/source/Reichstag_(German_Empire)) not by a [Progressive](/source/German_Progress_Party) but by [Otto Stellter](/source/Otto_Stellter) of the [Free Conservative Party](/source/Free_Conservative_Party).[4]

## References

1. ["Dickart, Julius"](http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00003446/images/index.html?nativeno=142). *Reichstagsprotokolle - Verhandlungen des Deutschen Reichstags und seiner Vorläufer*. Deutscher Parlaments-Almanach, Bd.: Ausg. 12, Leipzig & Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München. 13 February 1877. p. 142. Retrieved 1 March 2016.

1. ["Julius Dickert"](http://zhsf.gesis.org/ParlamentarierPortal/biorabkr_db/biorabkr_db.php?id=468). *Biographien deutscher Parlamentarier 1848 bis heute*. Wilhelm H. Schröder i.A. Zentrum für Historische Sozialforschung ("BIORAB"). 30 March 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2016.

1. This is the birth location according to the "Album amicorum", [Wilhelm Schmiedeberg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schmiedeberg)'s album of portraits of his friends. Other sources give Dickert's birth location as Elbing, roughly 25km (16 miles) to the east of Neuteich.

1. ["Otto Stellter"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103717/http://zhsf.gesis.org/ParlamentarierPortal/biorabkr_db/biorabkr_db.php?id=2395). *Biographien deutscher Parlamentarier 1848 bis heute*. Wilhelm H. Schröder i.A. Zentrum für Historische Sozialforschung ("BIORAB"). 30 March 2008. Archived from [the original](http://zhsf.gesis.org/ParlamentarierPortal/biorabkr_db/biorabkr_db.php?id=2395) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.

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