Adolph Lange (politician)

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Langes family crypt in the municipal cemetery in Aue

Franz Adolph Lange (born April 10, 1815 in Pleil , Bohemia , † November 13, 1898 in Blasewitz ) was a German entrepreneur in the metal industry and a conservative politician . He was a member of the Saxon state parliament .

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Born in Bohemia, Lange joined the commercial management of Ernst August Geitner's Argentan and enamel paint factory in Schneeberg in the Ore Mountains in 1842 . In 1844 he married Agnes Geitner (* 1821) and thus became the son-in-law of the inventor of the Argentans . He took over the Argentan factory in Auerhammer in 1855 after the death of his brother-in-law Alfred, initially as manager. In 1858 it came into his complete possession and was now called Dr. Geitner's Argentanfabrik F. A. Lange . He expanded the company to produce various types of nickel silver. In 1864 he had the first steam engine installed in order to ensure that his rolling mills were driven evenly and independently of the course of the year. When the price of nickel rose sharply in the 1870s , Lange also experimented with other metals. In 1873 Lange acquired the Royal Saxon Copper Hammer Grünthal near Olbernhau for 135,000 thalers , which from then on traded under the name Saxon Copper and Brass Works F. A. Lange in Kupferhammer-Grünthal . In a by-election for from the Saxon parliament resigned deputies Gustav Adolf Vodel he was elected in 1881 in the 20th urban constituency in the II. Chamber, where he remained until 1885. In 1883 he founded a branch in Schweinitzmühle as a foundry with rolling and strip mills as well as wire and bar drawing. He also bought the Unger and Lindner brothers' Argentan factory. In 1885 he handed over all his companies to his son Gustav Albert Lange (1846–1918) and his daughter Clara, married Domkowicz, who expanded the company empire into the most important manufacturer of non-ferrous semi-finished products in Saxony. In 1885 there were 250 employees in Grünthal; 1892 approx. 500 each in Grünthal and Auerhammer. For a long time he was a Saxon chamber councilor and knight of the Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht, 1st class ; his son later became a royal Saxon secret councilor of commerce .

Adolph Lange's country house in Grünthal

Lange also had a daughter who died young (Auguste Lina, married Bokemeyer; 1850-1870).

His first wife Agnes died on July 4, 1860 in Auerhammer. Adolph Lange celebrated his second marriage to Anna Cramer (* 1837 Plauen, † 1899 Blasewitz) on February 19, 1863 in the church in Klösterlein in cell , she was the niece of Carl Eduard Cramer and a cousin of Rudolf Lavant . The couple lived in Auerhammer from 1871 in the Villa Lange in the Dr. Geitner Str. (today Ricarda-Huch-Str. 15), later they moved into the country house in Grünthal / Olbernhau. Lange had a villa built between 1896 and 1898 at Emser Allee 19 in Blasewitz, today Dresden, Goetheallee 8 . After completing the villa and moving into it, Adolph Lange died, and Anna Lange followed a year later. Both were buried in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden- Tolkewitz .

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Wikisource: Franz Adolph Lange  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Franz Adolph Lange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information from Jana Hecker, press spokeswoman for the Aue city council from May 2009
  2. ^ Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon Parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 389; Döscher / Schröder refer to the Grünthal copper hammer as “b. Augustusburg "located [sic!]
  3. ↑ List of the members of the Saxon State Parliament 1881/82
  4. ↑ List of the members of the Saxon State Parliament 1883/84
  5. ^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of the Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 112
  6. ↑ Eckert & Pflug (ed.): The large industry of the Kingdom of Saxony in words and pictures: a gift of honor for Se. Majesty King Albert of Saxony. Leipzig , Volume 1, 1892
  7. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung of July 10, 1860, page 3342
  8. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung, 24.02.1863, page 934
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Franz Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Pleil , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1898
Place of death Blowjoke