Edmund Meinel
Edmund Meinel (born September 23, 1864 in Klingenthal ; † July 24, 1943 in Tannenbergsthal ) was a German entrepreneur and member of the state parliament in the Saxon state parliament of the Weimar Republic.
Life
Edmund Meinel was the son of the violin maker Johann Friedrich Meinel and his wife Sidonie Hochgeschwendner. He received a commercial training and then worked as a traveler. Through his marriage in 1891 to Emilie Keffel, he became a co-owner of the Edmund Keffel company in Tannenbergsthal , which produced wax and leather cloths. In 1909 he and his brother-in-law Friedrich Eduard Keffel founded the church in Tannenbergsthal, which was designed by the architect Fritsche from Elberfeld . The foundation stone was laid on June 23, 1909, the inauguration on September 25, 1910.
He has been chairman of the supervisory board since the company was converted from a general partnership to a stock corporation in 1911. He was also a member of the supervisory board of the Congress and Madras weaving mill in Oelsnitz , Lufthansa and the Chemnitzer Bankverein, which was taken over by Commerzbank in 1922 . From 1920 to 1926 Meinel was a member of the DVP in the Saxon state parliament.
Honors
In 1906 he was appointed to the Royal Saxon Council of Commerce and in 1918 to the Secret Commerce Council.
On November 8, 1918, he received the hereditary title of nobility from Duke Carl Eduard (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) due to his great services to war welfare. The nobilization document reads "Edmund Meinel Freiherr von Tannenberg auf Freienfels". This ennoblement was probably not entered in the civil status register due to the fall of the Empire on November 11, 1918.
Castle owner in Franconia
On April 21, 1921, Edmund Meinel acquired the Freienfels Castle in Franconian Switzerland, which he had already rented in 1916. He had the castle extensively renovated and restored. The management of the construction work was in the hands of the councilor and court carpenter Ernst Noack from Dresden, who died in 1925 . Meinel sold his Franconian property in 1941 to the asset management of Deutsche Arbeitsfront GmbH Berlin.
In 1930 Meinel, a follower of Gustav Stresemann , had a Stresemann memorial erected in the castle park with a plaque made by the ore caster Martin showing Stresemann's face. This monument was demolished by strangers after 1933.
Fate of the family after 1945
The Meinel-Tannenberg family, who had their permanent residence in Tannenbergsthal, fled their home country, lost their fortune and were separated; One branch went to Baden, the daughter, wife of General Werner Schmidt-Hammer , who was then a Soviet prisoner of war , sought refuge with her child in the former family estate of Schloss Freienfels in 1946 and lived there until 1960.
Today the family is based in South America and Germany.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tannenbergsthal ( Memento from July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Collective biography of the members of the Landtag of the Weimar Republic 1918-1933 ( Memento from December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatic Publishing House , Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 .
- Norbert Haas: Schloss Freienfels and its fate from 1918-1966. On the 65th anniversary of Edmund Meinel von Tannenberg's death . Bamberg 2006
Archival documents
- Bamberg City Archives D2033 No. 400.006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinel, Edmund |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meinel von Tannenberg, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneurs and politicians (DVP), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klingenthal |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1943 |
| Place of death | Tannenbergsthal |