Ludwig Andreas Jordan

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Portrait relief from tombstone, Deidesheim cemetery

Ludwig Andreas Jordan (born February 24, 1811 in Deidesheim ; † July 1, 1883 there ) was a German politician. He was a member of the German Reichstag , the customs parliament , the pre-parliament and the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies . Jordan was the mayor of his hometown Deidesheim and ran a winery there.

family

Jordan was the son of the Deidesheim estate owner Andreas Jordan (1775-1848) and Josefine von Stengel (1789-1834), a niece of the Palatinate office director Georg von Stengel and cousin of the Palatinate-Bavarian State Councilor Stephan von Stengel . He had two sisters, Josephine (1813–1872), who was married to the politician Franz Peter Buhl (1809–1862), and Auguste Margarete (1816–1889), married to Friedrich Prosper Georg Deinhard, the son of Johann Friedrich Deinhard .

In 1838 Jordan married his cousin Seraphine Buhl (1813-1870), the sister of Franz Peter Buhl . He had four daughters with her, including Auguste (1841–1899), who married the banker Emil Bassermann (1835–1915) in 1864 , and Clotilde (1845–1911), married since 1864 to the entrepreneur and politician Ferdinand Scipio (1837–1905) ), and Seraphine (1848–1918), married to Joseph Philipp von Stichaner (1838–1889).

Life

Ludwig Andreas Jordan at a young age
Ludwig Andreas Jordan
Tomb, Deidesheim cemetery

After the death of his uncle Peter Heinrich Jordan in 1830, Seraphine and Franz Peter Buhl inherited his property in Forst. Since his marriage to Seraphine in 1838, Jordan managed this property together with his brother-in-law Franz Peter Buhl as the winery of P. H. Jordan's heirs. P. H. Jordan's heir was split between the two families in 1848. Together with the Wingerten inherited from his father in 1848, L. A. Jordan formed the Jordan winery with a size of approx. 15.5 hectares. He succeeded in his winery, which is now Privy Councilor Dr. von Bassermann-Jordan means to enlarge considerably in the following period. Like his father, he endeavored to promote the reputation and sales of quality wines from the Palatinate.

Its strong economic base gave Jordan the opportunity to get involved in a variety of public life. Like his father, Jordan was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Bavaria ; here he had a mandate from 1848 to 1855 and from 1863 to 1871. Between 1855 and 1862 Franz Peter Buhl represented the constituency.

In the spring of 1848 Jordan took part in the deliberations of the Frankfurt preliminary parliament . For most of the people of the Palatinate, however, his moderate behavior in Frankfurt did not go far enough that he was not elected as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. Instead he took over the office of mayor in Deidesheim in 1848. In 1852 he resigned from this post in protest against the reactionary policies of the district government under the government president Gustav von Hohe . On Palatine uprising in 1849 Deidesheim did not participate under Mayor Jordan. Although Deidesheim transferred 500 guilders to the treasury of the National Defense Committee and had a vigilante group set up to join that of the Dürkheim canton , Jordan was skeptical and kept the Deidesheim officials' oath on the Paulskirche constitution delayed until Prussian troops had marched in. Deidesheim was spared too harsh punishments for participating in the uprising after its failure.

During the time of the German unification movement , Jordan was an important advocate for a small German solution under the leadership of Prussia . In the Chamber of Deputies, Jordan, like Marquard Adolph Barth and Joseph Völk , campaigned for Bavaria to join Prussia. His winery, like the winery of his brother-in-law Franz Peter Buhl, served as a meeting place for liberal politicians; this group also had a decisive influence on the development of the Bavarian Progressive Party .

Jordan was a member of the supervisory boards of various companies, for example the Bavarian-Palatinate Steam-Schlepp-Schifffahrts-Gesellschaft and the Board of Directors of the Palatinate Railways ; Since 1856 he had been in front of the Palatinate Chamber of Commerce and Industry for ten years and was also proposed as President of the German Trade Council, which he turned down and gave David Hansemann the precedence. In 1858 he was elected to the Palatinate District Administrator . In 1868, as a representative of the Vorderpfalz, he became a member of the newly created customs parliament , which he saw as an important step on the way to a German nation-state. After the founding of the Reich in 1871, the male population of the Neustadt-Landau constituency elected him with 9,315 of 9,556 votes and a turnout of 39.7% as their representative in the Reichstag , where he joined the faction of the National Liberal Party . He held his seat in the Reichstag until 1881.

Further evidence of Jordan's popularity were the visits of numerous personalities to his estate in Deidesheim, such as the later Bavarian King Maximilian II in June 1843, the Grand Duke Carl-Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach in October 1866, and Cardinal Johannes von Geissel , the chemist Justus von Liebig and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen , the politicians Heinrich von Gagern and Friedrich Daniel Bassermann and the physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff .

To ensure social peace after the March Revolution and in memory of Andreas Jordan, the Jordan family, together with the Buhl and Deinhard families, founded the Andreasbrunnen on Deidesheim's market square in 1851 . In addition, the families donated 10,000 guilders to the community-run Deidesheimer Spital for the construction of the first infant care facility in Deidesheim

When Ludwig Andreas Jordan died in 1883, the Jordan family died out in the male line in the Palatinate. Since he had no male offspring, he had wished that his son-in-law and heir to his winery, Emil Bassermann , a son of Friedrich Daniel Bassermann, would associate the name “Jordan” with his; After his death, this request was granted by the Bavarian King Ludwig II on September 17, 1883 at Linderhof Palace . Since then, the Jordan wine estate has been called "Bassermann-Jordan" after its new owner.

The restaurant L. A. Jordan in the Ketschauer Hof , which belonged to his winery, was named after Jordan .

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Andreas Jordan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Klötzer:  Jordan, Ludwig Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 602 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Joachim Kermann: Trends in economic and social development in Deidesheim from 1816 to 1914 . In: Kurt Andermann , Berthold Schnabel (Ed.): Deidesheim - Contributions to the history and culture of a city in the wine country . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-0418-4 , p. 232-239 .
  3. ^ Henning Türk: Bassermann-Jordan winery. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV, accessed on February 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d "B.":  Jordan, Ludwig Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, p. 509 f.
  5. ↑ a b Jordan, Ludwig Andreas jun. House of Bavarian History, accessed on February 19, 2017 .
  6. ^ Henning Türk: Ludwig Andreas Jordan and the Palatinate wine bourgeoisie . P. 258 f.
  7. ^ Henning Türk: Ludwig Andreas Jordan and the Palatinate wine bourgeoisie . Pp. 290-294
  8. ^ Henning Türk: Ludwig Andreas Jordan and the Palatinate wine bourgeoisie . Pp. 265-278
  9. ^ Henning Türk: From the minority to the majority position - Ludwig Andreas Jordan and the small German liberals in the Palatinate between 1849 and 1868/71 . In: Yearbook of the Hambach Society 23, 2016, pp. 49–73.
  10. ^ Henning Türk: Ludwig Andreas Jordan and the Palatinate wine bourgeoisie . P. 188 f.
  11. ↑ Ludwig Andreas Jordans diary entry of May 12, 1861, Landesarchiv Speyer, inventory V153 (Bassermann-Jordan), vol. 45.
  12. ↑ Ernst Otto Bräunche: parties and parliamentary elections in the Rheinpfalz from the unification in 1871 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. A regional party and either historical investigation in advance of democracy f, Speyer 1982, p 211th
  13. ^ Henning Türk: Civil foundations as memoria and social harmonization "from above" after the revolution of 1848/49. The donations and foundations of the Jordan family in Deidesheim . In: Archives for Social History 55, 2015, pp. 39–55.
  14. ↑ Berthold Schnabel: From the history of the Deidesheim hospital . In: Kurt Andermann, Berthold Schnabel (Ed.): Deidesheim - Contributions to the history and culture of a city in the wine country . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-0418-4 , p. 150 .
  15. ↑ On the ambivalent relationship of the Jordan / Bassermann-Jordan family to the Bavarian state, see Henning Türk: Weingutbesitzer mitpolitische Ambition. The relationship of the Jordan / Bassermann-Jordan family from the Palatinate to the Bavarian state in the 19th century until the end of the monarchy . In: Die Pfalz, Heft 3, 2013, p. 6 f.
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Ludwig Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, MdR and winegrower
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Deidesheim
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1883
Place of death Deidesheim