Adolph Albert Dresler

Adolph Albert Dresler (born June 20, 1781 in Siegen , † May 29, 1846 ibid) was a German businessman and politician .

Dresler was the son of the businessman Jakob Heinrich Dresler and his wife Agnes Katharine nee Hansfroth. He first received home tuition and then attended a school in Karlsruhe. In 1804 Dresler, who was of Protestant denomination, married Dorothea Henriette Schenck, the daughter of the councilor and bailiff Johann Henrich Schenck in Hilchenbach. He took over his father's business and lived as a merchant and factory partner in Siegen.

There he became involved in public offices early on. In Nassau-Orange Siegen had a city constitution with a governing body that consisted of a council and a lay judge's bench, over which the city council and the mayor stood. Dresler became a councilor and was responsible for urban construction there. During the French era , Siegen became part of the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 . Dresler became a departmental councilor in the Sieg department . After the end of French rule, he became captain of the Landsturm in 1813. With the Vienna Congress in 1816 Siegen became Prussian. From 1833 to 1836 Dresler was a member of the provincial parliament of the province of Westphalia for the state of the cities, the constituency of the Duchy of Westphalia and the city of Siegen . After the introduction of the new town order in 1836, he became the mayor of Siegen. In 1840 he was appointed to the Commerce Council.

literature

• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 247.
• New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 21; Volume 24, 1848, p. 342 ff, digitized .