Emil Mayer (manufacturer)

Emil Mayer (born October 24, 1848 in Mannheim ; † June 8, 1910 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician . He was a member of the Second Chamber of Baden .

Life

Emil Mayer was a great-grandson of the tobacco manufacturer and company founder Gottschalk Mayer (1761-1835) and a son of the tobacco manufacturer Kommerzienrat Max Mayer (1818-1871) and his Dutch wife Pauline Mendes (1822-1905). Mayer married on March 27, 1872 in Kassel Johanna Goldschmidt (born August 8, 1853 in Kassel), the youngest daughter of the businessman Siegmund Goldschmidt (1805–1868) in Kassel and his wife Wilhelmine (called Mina) Goldschmidt born. Büding (1815/1816 - after 1881).

Mayer attended the higher civil school in Mannheim. From 1864 to 1855 he studied mechanical engineering at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic , where he joined the Teutonia fraternity in the winter semester of 1865/1866 . After his studies, Mayer joined the family business Gebrüder Mayer cigar factories in Mannheim, which had existed since 1787 . Later he became the sole owner of the tobacco factory and one of the most important entrepreneurs in Mannheim.

From 1892 to 1910 Mayer represented the national liberal party as a city councilor in Mannheim and from 1905 to 1909 as a member of the state parliament. As a member of the state parliament, he was a member of the budget commission until 1908.

His son Max Ernst Mayer (1875–1923) was a German criminal lawyer and legal philosopher.

A picture by Emil Mayer is in the Mannheim City Archives .

Web links

Speeches by Emil Mayer in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I, politicians. Volume 8, Supplement L-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 68-69.
H. Kalkoff: National Liberal Parliamentarians 1867–1917 of the Reichstag and the individual parliaments . Berlin 1917.

G. Kirschner: Directory of members of the Karlsruhe Burschenschaft Teutonia . 1966.

A. Krieger, K. Obser: Badische Biographien , Part VI. Heidelberg 1935.

E. Hamburger: Jews in public life in Germany . 1968, ISBN 3168292923 . ( limited preview of Google Books )

Individual evidence

^ Leopold Ladenburg : Family tree of the Ladenburg family. Verlag J. Ph. Walther, Mannheim 1882, page 3, page 15.
^ Sigismund von Dobschütz: The ancestors of Elisabeth Goldschmidt from Kassel and Mannheim. In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Familienkundlichen Societies in Hessen (Hrag.): Hessische Familienkunde (HFK) , ISSN 0018-1064 , Volume 24, Issue 4/1998, page 169. (corrected and supplemented version in: Swiss Association for Jewish Genealogy (Ed. ): Maajan, The Source , ISSN 1011-4009 , Issue 76, 2005).

personal data
SURNAME	Mayer, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	June 8, 1910
Place of death	Mannheim

[1] Leopold Ladenburg : Family tree of the Ladenburg family. Verlag J. Ph. Walther, Mannheim 1882, page 3, page 15.

[2] Sigismund von Dobschütz: The ancestors of Elisabeth Goldschmidt from Kassel and Mannheim. In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Familienkundlichen Societies in Hessen (Hrag.): Hessische Familienkunde (HFK) , ISSN 0018-1064 , Volume 24, Issue 4/1998, page 169. (corrected and supplemented version in: Swiss Association for Jewish Genealogy (Ed. ): Maajan, The Source , ISSN 1011-4009 , Issue 76, 2005).