Anselme Laugel

Marie Anselme Victor Henri Laugel (3 April 1851, Strasbourg - 29 July 1928, Bœrsch) was a French-Alsatian author and politician.

Biography His father, François Joseph Victor Laugel (1817-1885), a locksmith, served on the Strasbourg City Council, as did his grandfather, François Antoine Laugel (1779-1848), who was also a locksmith. After attending a lycée in his hometown, and the Jesuit College in Metz, he took his degree in 1870. That same year, he served with the "Légions d'Alsace-Lorraine" in Lyon, during the Franco-Prussian War.

After the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871, he left to study in Paris. Later, he worked for the Secretariat of the French Senate. In 1891, he returned home and became Chairman of the Agricultural Council in the district of , then founding President of the Wine Growers' Association of Alsace. In 1896 he was elected to the (Bezirkstag), representing Oberelsaß (Upper Alsace). From 1890 to 1911, he was a member of the Regional Committee of the . In 1897, he married Marie Hervé (1861-1948), daughter of the district tax collector. They had no children.