Adolph Bernhard Cronemeyer

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Adolph Bernhard Cronemeyer (born January 17, 1829 in Neuhaus (Oste) ; † March 18, 1900 there ) was a businessman and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Adolph Bernhard Cronemeyer was the son of the lawyer Hermann Cronemeyer, who emigrated to America and died in 1837. In 1856 he took over his grandmother's business under the company GF Ulex Successor and was active in a wide range of business areas, such as the spirits and wine trade, the operation of a cigar factory and a shipping company. He was also a Freemason and worked in community politics until 1898. He was involved in the founding of the Neuhäuser Zeitung as well as the Neuhäuser Sparkasse and partly also its board of directors. Cronemeyer also campaigned for the construction of the railway line between Hamburg and Cuxhaven , which then went into operation in 1881 as the Niederelbebahn .

Cronemeyer was elected to the Reichstag in 1883 in a by-election for Rudolf von Bennigsen for the 19th Hanover constituency and the German Liberal Party . In the Reichstag election in 1884 he was defeated by the national liberal applicant Hermann Gebhard from Bremerhaven .

Cronemeyer was married to Metha Catharine Beyermann, their two sons died in 1897 while he was still alive. His company still exists in Neuhaus today and has named a beer after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. Files of the Ulex company ( Memento of May 5, 2006 in the Internet Archive ).