Alfred Goldenberg

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Alfred Goldenberg (1888)

Alfred Goldenberg (born January 28, 1831 in Molsheim , † November 1897 in Zornhoff ) was a manufacturer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Goldenberg's family originally comes from Remscheid , named after the Goldenberg there . At the beginning of the 18th century, his grandfather Gustav Goldenberg owned several iron processing and hammer mills in the Duchy of Berg . For political reasons, the family moved to Baerenthal in the Moselle department in the Lorraine region in 1818 . His father Paul Friedrich Albert Goldberg founded from 1833 to 1835 a plant in Dorlisheim and bought another plant in Zornhoff in today Saverne in the department of Bas-Rhin in the region Alsace.

Alfred Goldenberg initially worked as an engineer in the iron processing industry in England for a few years, returned to Zornhoff-Monswiller in 1862 and took over the now extensive factories with his father. Between 1840 and 1844, Goldenberg & Cie received several patents for coffee grinders . - In 1872 he received the Monthyon Prize for an invention against the disadvantages of dry grinding, he also published on agricultural and forestry issues.

politics

In 1863 he was a member of the district assembly in Lower Alsace , since 1875 a member of the state committee and from 1864 to 1869 Maire von Mansweiler .

From 1880 to 1890 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the Alsatian Protest Party and the Alsace-Lorraine electoral district 11 ( Zabern ). In 1880 he won a by-election for the resigned MP Carl August Schneegans .

In 1879 he was awarded the Order of the Crown III. Class excellent.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goldenberg, Dorlisheim / France , Small Tool Museum , accessed on October 21, 2015
  2. ^ Fritz Specht: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition, revised by Fritz Specht and Paul Schwabe. Heymann, Berlin 1904, p. 302.

literature

  • Hermann Hiery : Reichstag elections in the Reichsland. A contribution to the regional history of Alsace-Lorraine and the electoral history of the German Empire 1871–1918 (= contributions to the history of parliamentarism and political parties. 80). Droste, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-5132-7 , p. 205, (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1984).
  • Dietrich Samrowski: History of the coffee grinders. Part 10: Household mills (19th century). Dietrich Samrowski, Munich 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Goldenberg, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Molsheim
DATE OF DEATH November 1897
Place of death Zornhof