Alexander Georg Mosle

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Alexander Georg Mosle (born September 8, 1827 in Bremen , † August 21, 1882 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a German businessman, politician and member of the Reichstag .

biography

education and profession

Mosle was the son of the merchant Georg Rudolph Mosle (1796-1870), who became a citizen of Bremen in 1825 . The father was a partner in the company Stock Meyer & Co and later founded his own company Mosle & Co . Mosle attended secondary school and commercial school in Bremen and, like his father, became a businessman. He traveled to Rio de Janeiro in 1848, became a partner in the Stockmeyer company and Consul General (or Consul General) for Brazil . He returned to Bremen in 1862. After the father withdrew from the business, the son took over the company based on Martinistraße .

politics

From January 1, 1864 to December 31, 1878 he was a member of the Bremen citizenship .

Mosle was a member of the Reichstag (MdR) from the 1st Reichstag from 1871 to 1881 . He joined the National Liberal Party (NLP). For the Reichstag election in 1874 the liberal ran against the entrepreneur and founder of the North German Lloyd H.H. Meier for the Reichstag . He was elected by a large margin with the support of the Liberals and Democrats. The NLP took 39.0% of the seats in the 2nd Reichstag in the Reichstag election in 1874. He was also re-elected to the 3rd Reichstag in the Reichstag election in 1877 (NLP = 32.2% of the seats) and to the 4th Reichstag in the Reichstag election in 1878 (NLP = 24.9%). In 1878 he received about twice as many votes as the opponent of the Socialist Workers' Party (SAPD). In May 1879 he advocated the introduction of protective tariffs - his party was deeply divided on this issue. In Bremen, his decision met with fierce opposition, especially from the merchants. In a meeting in the stock exchange on May 8, 1880, he was asked to resign from his seat in the Reichstag. He left the NLP parliamentary group, but remained a member of parliament until the end of the legislature in October 1881. The NLP lost significantly in votes in the Reichstag election in 1881 and lost more than half of its mandates.

Other offices

Mosle was a member of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and from November 25, 1867 to October 31, 1878, a member of the permanent committee of the German Trade Conference (DHT) , from October 23, 1868 to October 31, 1878, Deputy DHT President and from December 13, 1875 until April 22, 1876 acting chairman of the DHT. He was chairman of the board of the first German North Sea fishing company , member of the board of directors of Deutsche Bank , chairman of the German Central Committee for ship classification and state delegate of the royal commissioner and military inspector for voluntary nursing . In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War , he led the Bremen Aid Association . He and six other Bremen merchants belonged to the Bremen committee to support the “2. Deutsche Nordpolarfahrt ”, which the schooner brig“ Hansa ”equipped for this expedition in 1869.

The Konsul-Mosle-Weg in the Bremen district of Horn-Lehe was named after him.

His son Alexander Georg (1862-1949) was a businessman and honorary consul of Belgium in Japan. He was the fifth child and had 7 other siblings, two of whom were brothers, Georg Rudolf Mosle and Christian Mosle, who worked as merchants in Japan. His sister Hermina Mosle married the merchant Hinrich Ahrens and she lived with her husband in Japan for about two years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Georg Hirth: Hirth's Parliament Almanach , Volume 9, Berlin 1871
  2. ↑ Schwarzwälder gives 1822 as the date of birth, other sources 1827
  3. ↑ German Trading Day (Ed.): Der Deutsche Handelsstag 1861-191 1, Volume 1, Berlin 1911, pp. 417f.
  4. ↑ Georg Hirth: Hirth's Parliament Almanach. Volume 9, Berlin 1871. Black Forest states 1874 as the first membership in the Reichstag.
  5. ^ German Trading Day (Ed.): Der Deutsche Handelstag 1861-1911, Volume 1, Berlin 1911, pp. 417f.
  6. ↑ MOSLE Alexander Georg Meiji portraits
personal data
SURNAME Mosle, Alexander Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and politician (NLP), MdBB, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1882
Place of death Rio de Janeiro