Johann Christian Ernst Bareuther (19 January 1838 in Asch, Austrian Empire[1] – 17 August 1905 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a Bohemian-Austrian politician.

Lithograph of Ernst Bareuther

Bareuther was born the son of Johann Christian Bareuther, a cloth manufacturer, and Sophia (née Just), daughter of Upper pastor Karl August Just of Asch. The sock manufacturer Johann Christian Wunderlich was his godfather. He studied in Prague and became a lawyer. In 1871, he joined the Czech national parliament and, in 1873, the Austrian Imperial Council. He was a co-founder of the Union of Germans in Bohemia. From 1882 to 1885, he was also a member of the Vienna City Council. He was a member of the Protestant community in Vienna and leader of Away from Rome!. Bareuther was an honorary member of Burschenschaft Teutonia Prag. From 1898 he was a member of Georg Ritter von Schönerer's pan-German Movement.[2][3] He died in Freiburg, and was buried in his home town of Asch.

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  1. ^ "Aš-evangelická 14 | Porta fontium".
  2. ^ Navrátil, Michal (1896). "Almanach sněmu království Českého 1895–1901" (in Czech). V Praze, Tiskem a nakl. Edvarda Beauforta.
  3. ^ "Bareuther, Ernst (1838-1905), Abgeordneter". Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950. Bd. 1 (in German). 2003–2011. p. 50. ISBN 978-3-7001-3213-4.

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