Isidor Siegfried Lissner (1832 – 22 July 1902) was a politician in

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, Australia. He was a

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Early life

Lissner was born in Posen,

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, the son of Siegfried Lissner and Julia Gluckmann.Chapter 7. Isidor Lissner and the politics of the eighties
—

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. Retrieved 19 January 2015.

Mining

He emigrated in 1856 to

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, where, after a varied experience on the gold diggings, he went to

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and subsequently to

, where he first settled at

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and then moved to

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. Lissner came to England with Mr. Black in 1887 as the representative of the Charters Towers miners to assist

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in pressing the question of North Queensland Separation on the attention of the Home Government.

Politics

Lissner was member for

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from 5 October 1883 to 13 May 1893, (Secretary for Mines and Public Works 27 March 1893 to 25 May 1893) and member for

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from 4 April 1896 to 11 March 1899.

Later life

Lissner died in 1902 and was buried in

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.Lissner Isidor Seigfrid
— Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 17 August 2014. The heritage-listed

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in Charters Towers is named after him.

References

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