Albert von Metzler (banker, 1839)

Family grave of the Metzler family in the Frankfurt main cemetery

Gustav Albert Metzler , von Metzler since 1901 (born January 3, 1839 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 25, 1918 ibid), was a German banker and politician.

Life

Gustav Albert von Metzler was born in Frankfurt am Main , the third of five children of Georg Friedrich Metzler (1806–1889) and Johanna Fuchs (1811–1882) .

Metzler lived in Liverpool from 1858 to 1862 and then in Paris from 1868 to 1870 . From 1883 he was a partner in the Metzler bank . He was also a member of the Degussa Supervisory Board . Since 1884 he was a member of the Chamber of Commerce . From 1880 Metzler was a member of the city council of Frankfurt am Main . In 1881 he was elected to the honorary city council. He held this post until 1912. In that year he also acted as a deputy mayor. Between 1886 and 1904 he was also the Bavarian Consul General in Frankfurt.

Metzler belonged to the National Liberal Party . Between 1885 and 1893 Metzler was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . Since 1904 he was a member of the Prussian manor house . In addition, he was committed to equestrian sport and was chairman of the Frankfurt Racing Club for many years. The elevation to the Prussian nobility took place on January 18, 1901 in Berlin for the brothers Albert and Carl Metzler (1835-1922).

Albert von Metzler is the great-grandfather of Friedrich von Metzler .

literature

Franz Lerner: Albert v. M .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 260 f. ( Digitized version ).
Acta borussica vol. 9 p. 393 (PDF file; 2.74 MB).
Karl Kiefer (Ed.): Frankfurter Blätter for Family Stories 5 (1912), Frankfurt am Main, pp. 136-137.

Web links

Metzler, Gustav Albert von. Hessian biography. (As of March 16, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Metzler, Albert (from; 1839-1918) in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon

Individual evidence

^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 268 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 672-675.
^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISBN 3-7980-0816-7 . The other two brothers died in childhood; her sister Mathilde Friedrike Schmidt-Metzler (1840–1932) appeared as the founder and long-time resident of the Villa Metzler .

personal data
SURNAME	Metzler, Albert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Metzler, Gustav Albert; Metzler, Gustav Albert von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German banker and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 3, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1918
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918 . Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 268 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 672-675.

[2] Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISBN 3-7980-0816-7 . The other two brothers died in childhood; her sister Mathilde Friedrike Schmidt-Metzler (1840–1932) appeared as the founder and long-time resident of the Villa Metzler .