Carl Philipp Cetto

Carl Philipp Cetto

Carl Philipp Cetto (born May 31, 1806 in St. Wendel ; † March 31, 1890 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician .

Life

Cetto was the son of Johann Carl Anton Cetto , Mayor of St. Wendel and Knight of the Legion of Honor , and Maria Magdalena Cetto, nee. Kleutgen . Cetto studied two semesters Law at the University of Heidelberg , joined in 1823 the Old Heidelberg fraternity and lived from 1830 as a merchant in Trier and St. Wendel. He was a partner in a Reverchon banking house, a wholesaler and owned two coal mines in St. Wendel.

Cetto took part in the Hambach Festival in May 1832 with his fellow citizen, the notary Nikolaus Hallauer . Like him, he was one of the more influential citizens of St. Wendel, at that time the capital of the Ducal Saxe-Coburg-Gothaischen exclave Lichtenberg , who criticized the government of this short-lived principality. Accused of submitting a complaint to put an end to the abuses and participation in civil associations in connection with the St. Wendel riots of 1832/33, he was acquitted by the Breeding Police Court on January 12, 1833.

1837–1841 he was a member of the Rhenish Parliament. In 1848 he was elected to the pre-parliament and a member of the Fifties Committee . From May 18, 1848 to May 26, 1849 he was a member of St. Wendel in the Frankfurt National Assembly , where he belonged to the Württemberger Hof faction .

After the failure of the National Assembly, he took part in the Gotha post-parliament in 1849 and became a member of the First Chamber of the Prussian State Parliament. From 1850 to 1852 he was a member of the Second Chamber, from 1862 to 1867 he was again a Prussian member of parliament. In 1861 he was a co-founder of the German Progress Party . He fought against the politics of Bismarck and protested against the war of 1866 . In 1867 he joined the National Liberal Party .

Cetto was also a board member of the Rhein-Nahe-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and the Lette-Verein .

Carl-Cetto-Straße was named after him in his hometown .

literature

• Heinrich Best, Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49 . Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998 ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 114
• Heinz-Günther Böse: Cetto, Karl Philipp . In: In: Trier Biographical Lexicon. Overall processing: Heinz Monz. Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 2000, pp. 63–64 ISBN 3-931014-49-5
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 200-201.

Web links

• Carl Philipp Cetto in the Saarland biographies
• Entry on Karl Cetto in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
• Literature on the Cetto family from St. Wendel in the Saarland Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Extraordinary supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung. No. 30 and 31 of January 23, 1833, p. 118.
2. ↑ Royal Prussian State Gazette. July 7, 1870, p. 2660.
3. ↑ The worker friend . Journal for the Workers' Question . 1866, p. 342.