August Schnitzler

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Carl August Schnitzler (born November 18, 1794 in Gräfrath ; † June 11, 1861 in Wiesbaden ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

Schnitzler was trained as a businessman in Solingen and Brussels . After completing his training, he joined his father's trading and production company Schnitzler & Kirschbaum in 1816. Schnitzler & Kirschbaum traded in Solingen and Bergisch-Mark industrial goods. In 1823 August Schnitzler became a partner in the company together with his younger brother Albert. When the Zollverein was founded, the previous partners parted ways in 1835, and the company has operated as August & Albert Schnitzler since then.

Schnitzler campaigned for the establishment of a chamber of commerce and a factory court in Solingen. In 1840 he was elected the first President of the Chamber of Commerce for Solingen (forerunner of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid ) and held office in this office from 1841. After differences over the fight against the truck system , he resigned from his offices at the chamber in 1845 and Carl Gustav Weyersberg was his successor. Schnitzler was elected deputy member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in 1848. In 1850 he was re-elected President of the Chamber of Commerce. In 1851 he retired from the company and from the office of President of the Chamber of Commerce, followed by Johann Ferdinand Wilhelm Jagenberg . He moved to Bonn , where he lived as a reindeer from then on. For health reasons he moved to Wiesbaden in 1859, where he died in 1861.

family

His son, Albert Schnitzler (1838–1906), was also President of the Chamber of Commerce from 1879–1905. The best-known family member was the grandson of August's brother Carl Eduard, the television commentator of the GDR Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (" The Black Canal ").

Awards and honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Schnitzler in the German biography