Ernst Otto Clauss

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Founder and deceased owner of the cotton mill EI Clauß Nachf .: Kgl. Saxon. Commerzienrat Seeber (left), Ernst Otto Clauß (center), Ernst Iselin Clauß (right)
General view of the Plaue cotton mill, 1909
Grave of the Ernst Otto Clauss family in the Chemnitz municipal cemetery
Monument in the Chemnitz City Park (1910)

Ernst Otto Clauss (born March 5, 1843 in Chemnitz ; † November 25, 1889 there ) was a German factory owner, textile entrepreneur and politician ( NLP ). He was a member of the Saxon state parliament and the Reichstag .

Live and act

After attending the Schnepfenthal educational institution and the trade school in Chemnitz, he inherited part of the cotton spinning mill EI Clauss in Plaue near Flöha , which his father Ernst Iselin Clauß (1793–1864 ) shared with his brother Peter Otto Clauss (1787–1872) for a while , from 1828 however had owned alone. The co-owner until 1882 was Ernst Otto Clauss' brother-in-law Louis Uhle , who had lived with Auguste born in 1862 Clauss was married.

The company survived the cotton crisis triggered by the American Civil War , in which half of Saxony's cotton mills perished between 1865 and 1873. The development of the company is reflected in the number of spindles and workers operated: while in 1860 308 workers spun on 14100 spindles, in 1870 there were 247 workers on 247 spindles and in 1880 251 workers on 18 214 spindles. In the second half of the 19th century, the Clauss cotton spinning mill had a decisive influence on the industrial development of Flöha and Plaue.

Clauß was city councilor in 1870/71 and 1876/77 and from 1882 to 1889 unpaid city councilor of Chemnitz. For the acquisition of the private park “ Sachses Ruhe ” between today's Straßburger-, Becker- and Rößlerstraße , which can be seen as the nucleus of today's city ​​park , he donated the entire purchase sum in 1884 and initiated the renaming to “ Bürgerpark ”. From 1885 until his death he was a representative of the constituency of the city of Chemnitz 1 member of the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament . In 1887 he was also elected a member of the Reichstag in the 16th Saxon constituency .

Clauß was married to Marie Magdalene Esche and thus related by marriage to the Esche family of hosiery manufacturers in Chemnitz. After his death, cotton spinning was taken over by his son Ernst Stephan Clauss (1869–1925), who was also a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1907 to 1918.

literature

  • Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder : Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , pp. 367-368.
  • Ernst Stephan Clauß: A Century of Cotton Fine Spinning 1809–1909. EI Clauß Nachf., Plaue near Flöha, 1909

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 94
  2. ↑ cf. Reichstag database
personal data
SURNAME Clauss, Ernst Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clauss, Ernst Emil Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German textile manufacturer and politician (NLP), MdR, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1889
Place of death Chemnitz