Agathon Wernich

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Agathon Wernich (born January 18, 1800 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † November 25, 1868 in Elbing ) was a German entrepreneur and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Wernich completed a commercial apprenticeship in Elbing after his father was a businessman . He worked as a trader until 1831, after which he ran a grocery store . From 1835 he owned a printing company and the newspapers Elbinger Werbung and Elbinger Zeitung , which he merged in 1852.

From 1825 he was city ​​councilor in Elbing, from 1830 to 1846 chairman of the city council assembly. In 1847 he was a member of the United State Parliament .

From October 17, 1848 to May 1, 1849, he succeeded Bernhard August Kähler as a member of the Paulskirche parliament in Frankfurt for the constituency of the Province of Prussia (31st, Elbing) . He joined the Casino faction .

From 1849 to 1851 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . He belonged to the Elbingen Freemason Lodge Constantia for the crowned unity .

Wernich's son Albrecht Ludwig Agathon Wernich (1843–1896) was a doctor, professor of medicine in Japan and a Prussian medical officer.

literature

  • Rainer Koch (Ed.): The Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. An encyclopedia of the members of the German Constituent Assembly. Kunz, Kelkheim 1989, ISBN 3-923420-10-2 , p. 425.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roland Hoede: The Paulskirche as a symbol. Freemasons in their work for unity and freedom 1833–1999. Bayreuth and Frankfurt 1999, p. 147.
  2. ↑ Julius Pagel: Wernich, Albrecht Ludwig Agathon in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 55 (1910), p. 53 (accessed August 18, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Wernich, Agathon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1868
Place of death Elblag