Christian Riedel

Christian Riedel (31 January 1804, Luptin – 30 September 1882, Zittau)^[1] was a German politician active in the Kingdom of Saxony where he led the left liberals of the German Progress Party in the 1867 Reichstag elections. He was known as "Old Riedel".^[2] He was elected for the Zittau Reichstag constituency in the February and August elections of 1867. In 1873 he was elected to the Landtag of the Kingdom of Saxony.

Riedel was a landowner and a farmer. He was self-taught and became politically active during the 1848 Revolution.^[3]