Carl Helbing

Carl Helbing (born July 11, 1802 in Lahr ; † July 21, 1874 in Emmendingen ) was a Baden entrepreneur and politician.

Life

After an apprenticeship, Helbing started his own business in Emmendingen in 1831. From 1833 to 1835 he was mayor of the place, then he was a member of the Emmendingen municipal council until 1870. In 1837, Helbing and his family founded the first mechanical hemp spinning mill in Baden, which was converted into a stock corporation in 1857 , of which he was director from 1857 to 1862 (forerunner of the First German Ramie Society). In 1837 he also became head of the local district savings bank. In 1862 he and his two sons founded the former mechanical twine factory Carl Helbing and Sons. In addition, he was a co-founder of a trade school and was a member of the Protestant parish council.

In 1841 Helbing became a member of the second chamber of the assembly of estates of the Grand Duchy of Baden , to which he belonged until the revolutionary uprisings in Baden in 1849. As part of the March Revolution , Helbing took part in the pre-parliament and then represented the 7th Baden constituency in Freiburg im Breisgau from June 1, 1848 to May 30, 1849 as a non-attached member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . His voting behavior was conservative.

In 1863 he founded a trade association in Emmendingen.

Honors

In 2005 the Carl-Helbing-Schule, a vocational school with a commercial profile, in Emmendingen was named after him.

literature

• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , pp. 174-175.