Ferdinand Scipio

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Portrait relief from the tomb
Tomb in the main cemetery in Mannheim

Eduard Ferdinand Scipio (born August 27, 1837 in Mannheim ; † May 22, 1905 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician .

He was born as the son of the merchant and private scholar Georg Wilhelm Scipio (1790–1847) and his wife Katharina born from Worms . Wannenmann (1794–1872) was born. Ferdinand Scipio attended the universities in Paris and Heidelberg. As a promoter of new agricultural methods, he built up the Rineck estate in the Odenwald and founded the Idenau plantation in Cameroon . In 1871 he was involved in the establishment of the Rheinische Hypothekenbank in Mannheim and in 1886 the Pfälzische Hypothekenbank . For the National Liberal Party , Scipio was elected to the Reichstag twice in 1874 and 1877 as a member of the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Baden 11 (Mannheim - Schwetzingen - Weinheim) . In 1890 he was re-elected to the Reichstag in the constituency of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 6 (Bensheim - Erbach). He later also belonged to the First Chamber of the Baden Estates .

Since 1864 Scipio was married to Clotilde Jordan, a daughter of the winery owner and politician Ludwig Andreas Jordan . He was awarded the title of a Grand Duke of Baden's Secret Commerce Councilor , and the community of Plankstadt named a street after him because he donated 1,000 marks after a major fire in 1895. Scipio's grave is in the Mannheim main cemetery .

His daughter Hedwig (1867–1935) had married Karl von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1857–1935), the last German district president of Lorraine .

The other daughter Ida Scipio (1866-1939) was active in Mannheim's social work. The town's Ida-Scipio-Heim (old people's home) is named after her.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The 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, pp. 257 and 264.
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Scipio in the portal of the community of Plankstadt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.plankstadt.de  
  3. ^ Website of the old people's home with a portrait of Ida Scipio

literature

  • Rudolf Haas and Wolfgang Münkel: Guide to the graves of well-known Mannheim personalities . Mannheim 1981
  • Support group of historical graves in Mannheim (ed.): The cemeteries in Mannheim . Mannheim 1992

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personal data
SURNAME Scipio, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scipio, Eduard Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1905
Place of death Mannheim