Ernst Friedrich Krafft

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Ernst Friedrich Krafft (born May 18, 1823 in Auggen ; † July 11, 1898 St. Blasien ) was a German entrepreneur and politician.

Life

Krafft studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1842 he was one of the first members of the third corps Palatia Heidelberg.

In 1851 he married the daughter of Carl Wilhelm Grether , who bought the St. Blasien cotton spinning mill at auction the following year and appointed Krafft as operations manager. He became a go. Commerzienrat appointed. In 1857 he moved to St. Blasien in order to economically stabilize the spinning mill in parts of the building of the former Benedictine abbey - even after the fire disaster in 1874.

From 1878 to 1881 and from 1884 to 1890 he was a member of the Reichstag for the National Liberal Party . He was also a member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Council of Estates from 1883 to 1890 . From 1893 to 1894 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Grand Duchy of Baden .

His daughter Anna (1856–1944) married the merchant Camyll Kym († 1884) in 1878 and then lived in her grandfather's palace in Schopfheim, where she was made an honorary citizen in 1921 .

He inherited the St. Blasien spinning mill from his father-in-law, which his son and grandchildren ran until the Great Depression in 1933. The engineer Fritz Krafft led from 1923 to 1926 in the basement of St. Blaise and neighboring houses along with the young physicists Wolfgang Schwartz, Erich Zepler and his later brother-Gotthard Fischer, the study society and radios factory Audion Krafft , among other Hörschärfemeßgeräte , such as the Otoaudion .

The manufacturer Ernst Friedrich Krafft is the first honorary citizen of St. Blasiens.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 118 , 47.
  2. ^ Franz Hilger: In the fourth attempt to the Sparkasse.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Südkurier. September 27, 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.suedkurier.de  
  3. ^ Monastery of St. Blasien
  4. ^ Badische Zeitung: Reformation commemorations in the monastery hall - St. Blasien - Badische Zeitung. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  5. Short biography in Georg Hirth (Ed.): German Parliament Almanach. 13th edition, Hirth, Leipzig 1878, p. 176 ( digitized version  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ); on the individual elections see Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: Die Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 251.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mdz12.bib-bvb.de  
  6. Honorary Citizen of the City of Schopfheim ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schopfheim.de
  7. http://lor.ru/Komp/I_1/14_21.htm Website with a picture of the Otoaudion hearing acuity measuring device
  8. http://www.cdvandt.org/Zepler-GFGF.pdf
  9. ^ Badische Zeitung: The highest dignity for patrons of the city and the economy - St. Blasien - Badische Zeitung. Accessed January 21, 2020 .