Carl August Brentano-Mezzegra

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Carl August Brentano-Mezzegra , also Karl August von Brentano , (born August 28, 1817 in Augsburg , † September 16, 1896 in Munich ) was a German silk manufacturer.

Life

Brentano attended the Technical University of Vienna and joined the family company “Seidenmanufaktur Pelloux & Brentano”, which was founded in the mid-1780s by the brothers Anton and Carl Brentano-Mezzegra, descendants of a silk merchant family from Italy, and their brother-in-law Anton Pelloux in Göggingen opened as a silk spinning and weaving mill and was relocated to Lechhausen , Bavaria , in 1793 as a privileged silk manufacture from the Electoral Palatinate . In 1844 he took over the company from his father Karl. He became known as the entrepreneur of the "velvet silk goods and church robe factory" in Lechhausen near Augsburg, especially because he managed his factories according to Christian principles. He converted the spinning and weaving mills into a stock corporation in 1868 because the only son from his marriage to his wife Anna died at the age of 21. “The factory was one of the most important of its kind in Germany, employing 40 to 50 people on 200 different machines and processing up to 1,000 pounds of raw silk per year. Brentano farmed mulberries in the large garden by the factory and also had silk moths bred himself . "

In 1847 Brentano called the “District Women’s Association for the Promotion of Silk Breeding” into being and worked there as secretary for many years. He was also an advisory member and speaker of the Kreis-Seidenbau-Verein. In addition, Brentano was in the rank of lieutenant colonel district inspector of the Landwehr in the administrative district of Swabia and Neuburg . Carl August Brentano was raised to hereditary nobility in 1846.

engagement

In November 1848 Brentano was a co-founder of the "Constitutional-Monarchical Association". The Piusverein in Augsburg, which belonged to the Catholic associations in Germany, was founded in 1849 from this environment . Brentano was particularly involved here during the revolution of 1848/49 . He was a member of the General Assembly of the Catholic Associations for Augsburg and Aschaffenburg.

Carl August Brentano, together with the lawyer and publicist Moritz Lieber, set up the presidium of the second German Catholic Day from May 9 to 12, 1849 in Breslau.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bettina Brühl: "For the benefit of the huts and the palaces"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Augsburger Allgemeine , May 9, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.augsburger-allgemeine.de  
  2. ↑ "St. Josephsblatt: illustr. Monthly for instruction u. Entertainment d. christl. People ”, St. Josephsblatt, 1868
  3. ↑ "The Agriculture in Bavaria: Memorandum to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Agriculture Association in Bavaria", M. Pössenbacher 1862
  4. ↑ August Kellner: “Statistisches Amt-Handbuch für den K. Bayer. Administrative region of Swabia and Neuburg ”, 1862
  5. ↑ Frank Möller: "Bourgeois rule in Augsburg 1790-1880", page 310
  6. ^ Negotiations of the ... General Assembly of the Catholic Associations of Germany: after stenograph. Records, 1858
personal data
SURNAME Brentano-Mezzegra, Carl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brentano, Karl August von; Brentano, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1896
Place of death Munich