Alexander von Sybel

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Alexander von Sybel (born September 25, 1823 in Düsseldorf ; † March 22, 1902 in Karlsruhe ) was a Rhenish Prussian civil servant and economic politician as well as the father of the writer Adelheid von Sybel (1878–1966) and the younger brother of the historian Heinrich von Sybel (1817–1895) .

Life

He came from a long-established Protestant family from Soest , Westphalia, and was a son of the wealthy and ennobled Heinrich Ferdinand Philipp von Sybel . He was a civil servant in the government of the Rhineland and Westphalia annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia , where he often worked under Friedrich von Kühlwetter (1809–1882), most recently as a ministerial advisor and head of department for economic and customs issues.

After retiring from his civil service career, he became an influential lobbyist for the textile industry from 1854 and worked in various industrial sectors. From 1859 he was president of the trade and trade association for the Rhineland and Westphalia in Düsseldorf and played a leading role in the founding of the German Trade Convention , of which he was a member for nine years from 1861 to 1872.

From 1861 and 1867 to 1870 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for Gladbach and Elberfeld - Barmen and from 1868 to 1870 a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation . He was part of their deputation, which in Versailles in 1871 presented to King Wilhelm of Prussia the wish to accept the German imperial crown.

The documents relating to the history of the construction of the Gotthard Railway show that in the spring of 1869 Sybel was paid 25,000 Swiss francs (CHF 1300 was the average annual salary of an academic at the time) for his lobbying work for the signing of a state treaty with a 20 million building cost grant from Germany .

Well respected and still influential, he chose Karlsruhe as his retirement home, where he died in 1902.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the assistance of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 , p. 383.

literature

  • FLK v. Sybel: News about the Sybel family in Soest. Munich 1890
  • Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 7, 1902, Reimer, Berlin
  • The German Trading Day 1861–1911. Berlin 1911, Volume I, p. 410 f.
  • A. Krieger and K. Obser (eds.): Badische Biographien . VI. Part: 1901-1910. Heidelberg 1935
  • Bernhard Mann (arrangement) with the collaboration of Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh , Thomas Kühne: Biographisches Handbuch für das Prussische Abrafenhaus 1867–1918 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 3). Droste, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7700-5146-7 .
  • Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 .
  • Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 .

Web links

Alexander von Sybel in the database of members of the Reichstag

personal data
SURNAME Sybel, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rhenish Prussian civil servant and economic politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1902
Place of death Karlsruhe