Ernst Friedrich Gottschalk

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Ernst Friedrich Gottschalk (born March 4, 1802 in Schopfheim , † September 4, 1851 in Illenau ) was a German manufacturer and politician.

His father Johann Friedrich Gottfried was the owner of a wire drawing shop in Schopfheim in southern Baden , which his grandfather had founded in 1757. 1815-16 he completed his schooling in an educational institution in Switzerland and was then an assistant in his father's company. In 1830 he became a local councilor and church councilor in Schopfheim. In the same year he married. His brother-in-law was the Schopfheim paper manufacturer Johann Sutter (cf. Johann August Sutter ).

In 1836 he converted the wire drawing mill into a cotton mill. Since the 1840s he belonged to the Badischer Industrieverein.

From 1840 to 1844 he was mayor of Schopfheim and from 1842 to 1846 he was a member of the Baden state parliament and was one of the liberals. On April 18, 1848, he received the Baden revolutionary leader Friedrich Hecker in Schopfheim . Since September 1848 he belonged to the General German Association for the Protection of Patriotic Labor. In 1848/49 he was also a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly . He was non-attached and voted with the Left Center.

literature

  • Heinrich Best and Wilhelm Weege: Biographical handbook of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/89. Droste, Düsseldorf 1996, p. 159.

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up of the bourgeoisie 1813-1850: Ernst Friedrich Gottschalk (* 4.3.1802, Schopfheim / + 4.9.1851, Illenau). City tour, City of Schopfheim, p. 14 (PDF).
  2. ↑ Gottschalk, Ernst Friedrich ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Database on the revolution 1848/49, historical seminar of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf .
personal data
SURNAME Gottschalk, Ernst Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Schopfheim
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1851
Place of death Illenau