Eduard Bartling

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Eduard Bartling's grave at the north cemetery in Wiesbaden
Eduard Bartling as a member of the Reichstag in 1912

Eduard Arnold Bartling (born June 19, 1845 in Lenhausen ; † August 3, 1927 in Wiesbaden ) was a German entrepreneur and politician.

Bartling attended a building trade school and a polytechnic school after high school and high school. He worked in machine factories, in civil engineering. As an entrepreneur and engineer, he was involved in building railways, canals and ports, as well as building fortresses. He invented large excavators for mining brown coal. Bartling was the owner of mines, a lime pit near Limburg , a machine repair shop, a wood pulp and paper factory and steam brick factories. At the same time he worked as a newspaper publisher in Berlin.

In the 1890s Bartling moved to Wiesbaden and built a representative villa. There he also published the "Wiesbadener Generalanzeiger".

Politically, Bartling belonged to the national liberal party and supported Otto von Bismarck's policies . He was chairman of the Wiesbaden committee for the construction of a Bismarck tower on the Bierstadter Höhe. In Wiesbaden he was an unpaid city councilor from 1891 to 1900. He had been a member of the Reichstag since 1903. From 1904 until 1918 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , in which he represented the constituency Wiesbaden 9 (Wiesbaden - Untertaunuskreis . In the Reichstag election of 1907 Bartling was defeated by the Social Democratic candidate Gustav Lehmann supported by the center . After the Reichstag election of 1912 Bartling moved again in the Reichstag.

For his services he was appointed to the secret council of commerce. Bartling had a monumental tomb erected on the north cemetery in Wiesbaden while he was still alive .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Koch, Bismarck monuments and Bismarck commemorations on the Upper Rhine. Marble, stone and bronze speaks. Ubstadt-Weiher u. a. 2015. p. 77.
  2. ^ Mann, Bernhard (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 1988, p. 55 (handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties: vol. 3); for the election results see also Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 676-678.
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1907. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd edition supplemented by an appendix. Addendum. The Reichstag election of 1907 (12th legislative period). Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1908, p. 44.
  4. ↑ on the 1912 election campaign compare Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890–1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 765-766.

literature

  • A. Plate: Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives. Edition for the 20th legislative period. Berlin, 1904 p. 292
  • Volker Kennemann: Eduard Bartling. A German entrepreneur and politician from Lenhausen. In: To Bigge, Lenne and Fretter. Issue 38. Finnentrop 2013 pp. 25–54

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personal data
SURNAME Bartling, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bartling, Eduard Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Lenhausen
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1927
Place of death Wiesbaden