Eduard Wolff (entrepreneur, 1855)

Eduard Wolff (around 1900)

Eduard Wolff (* 1855 ; † August 19, 1905 in Schötmar ) was a German entrepreneur and local politician.

Wolff was born in 1855 as the first of two sons to his parents Friedrich (1829-1886) and Auguste Wolff (1832-1916), née Huth, a baker's daughter from Salzuflen .

Like his brother Carl (1859–1897) later, he completed a commercial apprenticeship and then joined his father's company F. Wolff & Co. Schötmar's oldest industrial company, a cigar factory with a tobacco trade , employed well over a hundred cigar makers, home workers, children and young people, office workers and travelers in good years. From 1897, after the death of his brother, Eduard Wolff continued to run the business alone and had taken over the guardianship of his three underage nieces .

For the “constituency Schötmar- Oerlinghausen ” Wolff was a member of the Free People's Party (FVp) from 1896 until his death in the Lippe state parliament , and for several years also as its vice-president.

In 1900 Wolff - Schötmar did not yet have city rights - was elected mayor.

Eduard Wolff died after a long illness on August 19, 1905. The Wolff family's grave is today in the Funeke cemetery on Lemgoer Straße .

In honor of Wolff, the former Schötmarer Bahnhofstrasse was renamed Eduard-Wolff-Strasse in the 1930s .

literature

• Stefan Wisekopsieker: Eduard Wolff (1855–1905) - manufacturer and local politician . In: “Who was who in Schötmar? Life pictures from three centuries ”, No. 2, Verlag des Heimat- und Verschönerungsverein Bad Salzuflen e. V., Bad Salzuflen, 2015, ISBN 978-3-941726-40-6 .