Emil Wiglow

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Emil Karl Heinrich Wiglow (born June 11, 1865 in Wittenberge ; † 1945 ) was a businessman and bank director in Brandenburg an der Havel .

Life

His father, the businessman Heinrich (Ludwig Christian) Wiglow (* 1839), had founded a banking business in 1863, which on January 27, 1865 was converted into the Wittenberge advance payment association , of which he was chairman. For a long time, the seat of the bank association was in Wiglow's house at Chausseestrasse 31. 1877–1887 Heinrich was head of the city ​​council . He became the guardian of the children of the late Robert Krause († September 1891), the brother of Louis Krause .

On December 19, 1891, Emil Wiglow signed a partnership agreement with the widow Anna Krause to take over the Wittenberg fat goods factory Robert Krause , although the company name remained unchanged. In March 1892 he bought half of the company property, and after the widow Krause remarried in August 1896 and left the company at the beginning of the following year, Wiglow became the sole owner of the property in February 1897. At the beginning of 1903 the company was converted into a general partnership. The owners were Emil in Brandenburg and his brother, the chemist Hermann Wiglow in Wittenberge.

In 1896 he became a city councilor and 1899–1912 city councilor and honorary councilor in Wittenberge. In addition, he was 1901-1912 member of the district council of the Westprignitz district .

When he left Wittenberge in 1912 to take up the position of director of the bank association in Brandenburg / Havel until 1925, a section of Weinbergstrasse was renamed Wiglowstrasse.

From 1922 to 1925 he was President of the Brandenburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry . 1919–1922 and 1925–1930 he was a member of the party committee of the German Democratic Party . 1919–1921 he was a member of the Prussian state assembly and 1921–1928 of the Prussian state parliament .

swell

  1. ↑ Volker Stalmann: Left liberalism in Prussia. 2 volumes: The minutes of the meetings of the Prussian parliamentary group of the German Democratic Party and the German State Party 1919–1932 ; 2009; Page cxxiii.
  2. ^ Heinz Muchow: How the arable town of Wittenberge developed into an industrial town ... ; Pp. 65f and 155 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiglow, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiglow, Emil Karl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and bank director
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH 1945