Christian Ludwig Lauteren

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Christian Ludwig Lauteren (born March 29, 1811 in Mainz ; † August 2, 1888 there ) was a wealthy Mainz industrial magnate and politician. Alongside Georg Christian Kessler, he is considered to be the founder of the German sparkling wine manufacturer . According to him, a building of the Mainz city administration and a road, and a complete district named.

family

The Lauteren family of wine merchants was one of the leading representatives of civil society in Mainz in the 19th century. As a member of the city council, the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Chamber of Commerce, she had great influence on politics and the economy. Christian Lauteren (1755–1843) was a city councilor and commercial judge, his son Clemens Lauteren (1786–1877) was one of the five founders of the Hessian Ludwigsbahn AG , then initially vice-president, later president and finally honorary president of the company's board of directors. Clemens Lauteren became the father of Christian Ludwig Lauteren in 1811.

In 1835, Lauteren married Charlotte Philippine Jacobine Michel (1813–1836), who came from another industrial family in Mainz. Nine months later, his wife passed away in childbed. Later the widower married again with Friederike Fritzdorff (1818-1884), daughter of the Mainz raft wood dealer Caspar Jacob Fritzdorff.

Politics and profession

Christian Ludwig Lauteren was president of several banks and a major shareholder of the Ludwigsbahn founded by his father. In 1833 he succeeded in producing sparkling wine in Germany, something that had previously only been done by Georg Christian Kessler . He was president of the Rhine-Hessian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was in 1851 by Grand Duke Ludwig III. appointed lifelong member of the first chamber of the Hessian state parliament . He was also a member of the Mainz City Council and the Mainz Freemason Lodge "The Friends of Concord". Christian Ludwig Lauteren made a name for himself in the course of the plans for the embankment of the Rhine and played a key role in relocating the railway line from the bank of the Rhine to the western side of the city. In the year of his death he took over the chairmanship of the administrative board of the Hessian Ludwigsbahn. He was buried in the main cemetery in Mainz . The area gained by the embankment of the Rhine was named Lauterenviertel after the Lauteren family.

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 237.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 507.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Christian Ludwig Lauteren in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on March 18, 2017 .
  2. ^ Heyl zu Herrnsheim - The Story ( Memento from August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.ahr-info.de/index.php?id=57
  4. ↑ Railway history : decorated with flags and in no time to Worms
personal data
SURNAME Lauteren, Christian Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrial magnate and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1888
Place of death Mainz