Franz August Mammen

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Franz August Mammen (1813–1888)

Franz August Mammen (born October 27, 1813 in Neuharlingersiel , † December 23, 1888 in Plauen ) was a German entrepreneur and liberal politician . He was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and a member of the Saxon state parliament and the Reichstag of the North German Confederation .

Live and act

The son of the businessman Johann Remmer Mammen and his wife Alste Marie geb. One in Neuharlingersiel, East Frisia, attended the village school in his home village from 1819 to 1822 before he switched to the high school in Aurich . After he had successfully completed this, he began a commercial apprenticeship in an iron shop in Aurich in 1828, which he continued in Lippstadt and Braunschweig from 1830 . In 1833 he became a clerk in the white goods and lace factory Schmidt & Brückner in Plauen in Vogtland . Several children emerged from the marriage, including Enno Mammen . For his selfless help in an unspecified flood disaster, he was awarded the Saxon Golden Lifesaver Medal in 1835. In 1837 he received the power of attorney for the Schmidt & Brückner company and became the owner of the company the following year.

In 1847 he was a member of the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament as a deputy member of the 17th urban constituency in 1847, in 1848 he had the full mandate and joined the liberal minority. Mammen advocates the greatest possible development of the democratic principle in the constitutional-monarchical form of government , by which he understood the creation of republican institutions. On May 10, 1848 he was elected as a candidate for the Fatherland Association in the 12th Saxon electoral district (Plauen) in the first vote with 37 out of 70 votes in the Frankfurt National Assembly, of which he was a member from May 18, 1848 to May 30, 1849. There the factions Deutscher Hof and Nürnberger Hof joined. In the third meeting, Mammen applied for the abolition of internal tariffs and the establishment of import tariffs to protect local craftsmen and traders . In a joint motion with the MPs Bernhard Eisenstuck and Georg Günther on July 14th, he pleaded the urgency of the matter and took the floor several times by means of interpellations and inquiries in vain. He was one of the founders of the General German Association for the Protection of Patriotic Labor . Although he would have seen a provisional central authority set up in accordance with Julius von Dieskau's proposal , he proposed the compromise proposal brought in by Robert Blum and Wilhelm Adolph von Trützschler to parliament for acceptance, as he considered it to be the easiest to implement.

As a representative of the 41st, 42nd and 43rd electoral districts, he was a member of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament in 1849/50 , where he held the office of second vice-president of the chamber. At the same time he acted as chairman of the Chamber's Finance Committee. Mammen advocated the amnesty of the 1848 revolutionaries who tried to overthrow the Saxon king and establish a republic in the Dresden May uprising in May 1849 . He was one of the pioneers against the Three Kings Covenant , as he saw only the people entitled to the controversial III. Revise section of the Paulskirche constitution .

As a result, he was a member of the Plauen Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1861, of which he was president until 1871. In 1863/64 he was also a member of the Plauener Commercial Court. From 1863 to 1868 he was again a member of the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament as a member of the trade and factory sector. In 1867 he became a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the German Progressive Party as a representative of the 23rd Saxon constituency (Plauen-Oelsnitz-Adorf) . There he published an economic policy program that was characterized by a Greater German solution and thus indicated his transition to the liberal center. He resigned his mandate in 1869.

Furthermore, Mammen was in 1870/71 chairman of the local war aid association and honorary master of the Masonic Lodge at Pyramid . Until his death he remained the owner of the Schmidt & Brückner company , which had achieved world fame as one of the pioneers of the Plauen lace . However, he had already given up management of the business in 1884.

Family grave of the Mammen family, in which Franz August Mammen was also buried

After his death on December 23, 1888, Franz August Mammen was buried in the family grave at Cemetery I in Plauen. The grave is a listed building.

literature

  • T. Tonndorf: The Saxon Members of the Frankfurt Pre- and National Assembly , Diss. Dresden 1993, p. 219f.
  • Hans Jaeger:  Mammen, Franz August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 1 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz von Mammen: Franz August Mammen in Plauen - life a. Work e. Saxon industrialists , Dresden and Leipzig, 1935.
  • Franz von Mammen: Four casual speeches by the family of Franz August Mammen (1813–1888) , 1934.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f T. Tonndorf: The Saxon Members of the Frankfurt Pre- and National Assembly , Diss. Dresden 1993, p. 219f.
  2. ↑ a b Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 114
  3. ↑ Josef Matzerath: Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 46


personal data
SURNAME Mammen, Franz August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and liberal politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuharlingersiel
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1888
Place of death Plauen