Anton Fasig

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Anton Fasig (born October 24, 1864 in Ludwigshafen , † March 8, 1940 in Mannheim ) was a German industrialist .

Life

Fasig was a son of the later factory owner and city councilor Heinrich Fasig and his wife Sophie, née. Seilheimer. He attended the secondary school in Mannheim and studied architecture at the technical universities in Stuttgart and Munich . In 1882 he became a member of the Corps Rheno-Palatia Munich . After a long stay abroad, he took over the management of his father's window and door factory Heinrich Fasig & Sohn in Ludwigshafen. In 1907 he received the title of a Commerce Councilor , and in 1918 a Secret Commerce Councilor.

In addition, he was involved in various ways as an industrial association official. He was a deputy member of the main committee of the Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie, the association of those interested in wood in Southwest Germany, committee member of the association of Palatine industrialists and chairman of the supervisory board of the construction company for small apartments in Mannheim.

Fasig was also the 2nd President of the Rhenish Automobile Club in Mannheim and Chairman of the Palatinate Forest Association . The Villa Fasig in Mannheim was built by him in 1906 with the help of the architect and contractor Arno Möller in the style of early modernism.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Birth register, civil registry office Ludwigshafen, No. 128/1864
  2. Death register StA Mannheim, No. 735/1940
  3. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 113 , 177
  4. Celia Applegate: A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of ​​Heimat , University of California Press, 1990, p. 67
  5. ^ Peter Haiko: Architecture of the XX. century , Editions Mardaga, 1989, p. 94 (fig.) (digitized version) ; Sonja Steiner-Welz: Mannheim: Villen und Landhäuser , Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag eK, 2001, p. 49; Ferdinand Werner: Mannheim Villas: Architecture and Living Culture in the Squares and the Oststadt , Wernersche Verlagsanstalt, 2009, pp. 130, 174, 284