Franz Anton Christoph Buhl

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Franz Anton Christoph Buhl (born February 19, 1779 in Ettlingen ; † January 16, 1844 in Diedesheim ) was an entrepreneur and politician from Baden. From 1819 to 1824 and from 1831 to 1837 he had a seat in the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly .

family

Buhl's father was Franz Albert Martin Buhl (1751-1815), an entrepreneur who ran a paper factory, a spinning mill and a trading company in Ettlingen. His younger brother Florian Buhl was the mayor of Ettlingen.

Buhl's wife Maria Barbara Jordan (1783–1842) was a sister of Deidesheim's member of the state parliament Andreas Jordan (1775–1848). His son Franz Peter Buhl (1809–1862) was also a politician and had a mandate in the Baden and Bavarian state parliaments. His daughter Seraphine (1813–1870) was the wife of the Reichstag member Ludwig Andreas Jordan (1811–1883).

Life

Buhl was born in Ettlingen in 1779 and was raised in a Benedictine monastery from the age of 14 . After he returned to his parents' house, Buhl became a partner in his father's company in 1806. Together with his father, he also founded his own cotton spinning mill, which, however, was not very successful, as after its completion the continental block that Napoleon had imposed on England was lifted and the spinning mill against the English goods, which subsequently pushed onto the market , could not claim. The two paper mills that he ran with his brother Florian after the death of his father, were destroyed by a flood and had to be restored or rebuilt at great expense. During this time he was also the mayor of Ettlingen.

Through his marriage to Barbara Jordan, Buhl became the owner of a winery in Deidesheim , his wife's hometown. By marriage with the Jordan family, he and his descendants came to numerous vineyards around Deidesheim, and his son Franz Peter was the founder of the Deidesheim winery FP Buhl , which still exists today .

After the Grand Duchy of Baden had given itself a constitution after the end of Napoleonic rule in 1818, Buhl was elected to the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly for the Liberals in 1819 ; here he influenced the tithing in Baden . In the 1825 election he did not succeed in winning a mandate again, but in 1831 he was re-elected to the state parliament. He was an advocate for Baden to join the German Customs Union . He retained his mandate in the state parliament until 1837, when there were already signs of a spinal cord disease. His health soon deteriorated so much that he had to be carried by two servants and his hands could no longer be used. After his wife died in 1842, he moved to live with his daughter in Deidesheim, and died two years later.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: Buhl, Franz Anton . Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Joachim Kermann: Economic and Social Development 1816 to 1914 . In: Kurt Andermann , Berthold Schnabel (Ed.): Deidesheim - Contributions to the history and culture of a city in the wine country . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-0418-4 , p. 232 f .
  3. ↑ a b Theodor Schieder:  Buhl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 10 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ a b c Ludwig Andreas Jordan : Franz Buhl . In: Friedrich von Weech (Ed.): Badische Biografien, first part . S. 141-143 . ( Digitized version )
  5. ↑ Weingut Reichsrat von Buhl GmbH: History . Retrieved December 9, 2016.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Buhl's place of death may be Deidesheim and not Diedesheim. The Baden-Württemberg State Archives, from which Buhl's birth and death dates come, erroneously mentions Diedesheim instead of Deidesheim for other members of the family whose place of birth or death can be proven to be Deidesheim
personal data
SURNAME Buhl, Franz Anton Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Ettlingen
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1844
Place of death Diedesheim