Carl Huss

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Christian Friedrich Carl Huss (born August 24, 1800 in Bayreuth ; † April 16, 1868 there ) was a German freight forwarder and from 1863 to 1868 mayor of Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

Life

Huss was born in Bayreuth as the tenth child of the later Bavarian head forester Johann Julius Wolfgang Huss (1750–1835) and his wife Barbara Johanna, née. Großmann (1767–1837) born. His mother came from a Franconian pastor's family.

After a commercial apprenticeship and various business trips, which also took him abroad, Huss joined Heinrich Wilhelm Lichtenberger's trading house in Mannheim around 1835 and received Mannheim citizenship on November 25, 1837. On December 31, 1837, in Mannheim, he married Friederike Wilhelmine Susanna Sprecher, a daughter of the Mannheim portrait and miniature painter, engraver and former court painter Friedrich Sprecher. The marriage had four children:

  • Caroline Auguste Ferdinande Huss (* October 22, 1838), married to the Mannheim merchant Johann Karl Ferdinand Koch (* 1832). A son from this marriage was the painter Otto Albert Koch (1866–1921)
  • Auguste Luise Huß (born November 28, 1839, † October 6, 1899), married to the freight forwarder Theodor Fügen (* 1844)
  • Johann Wolfgang Julius Huss (* May 15, 1841, † May 19, 1891)
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Huss (born January 25, 1843, † May 1, 1844)

In 1838, Huss moved his business to Mannheim's Rheinschanze, on the Bavarian side of the Rhine . He gave up his Mannheim apartment and Baden citizenship in 1857. He became (again) a Bavarian citizen and when the former Rheinschanze was elevated to the status of an independent municipality in Ludwigshafen, he became a member of the municipal council and adjunct (alderman). After Heinrich Wilhelm Lichtenberger, who had been elected first mayor of the municipality, resigned, Huss succeeded him in this position in 1863. He died five years later during a recreational stay with relatives in Bayreuth and received his final resting place in the family grave there. His son-in-law Theodor Fügen continued the commercial enterprise under the company name Theodor Fügen, formerly Carl Huss . After the First World War, it merged into what is now Rhenus SE .

He was succeeded as mayor of Ludwigshafen by the building contractor Joseph Hoffmann .

literature

  • Josef A. Raimar: Mayor Carl Huss, his relatives, paternal ancestors and namesakes . In: Oskar Poller, Josef Raimar: On the history of the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Well-known families and personalities . Issue 1. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1970, pp. 11-17