Franz Ferdinand Eiffe (politician, 1860)
Franz Ferdinand Eiffe (born November 24, 1860 in Hamburg ; † November 4, 1941 there ) was a Hamburg merchant and member of parliament.
Life
Eiffes father was the Senator Franz Ferdinand Eiffe (1825-1875) his mother Susan Godeffroy (1833-1871). Eiffe was an orphan at the age of 14. After attending school, he did a commercial apprenticeship and later founded the import and export company FF Eiffe & Co. Eiffe was a businessman in southern Africa , he was actively involved in trying to find a port for the Burian Republic of Transvaal near Lourenço Marques in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique .
From 1904 to 1918 Eiffe belonged to the Hamburg citizenship . From 1904 to 1928 he was a member of the deputation for trade, shipping and industry.
From 1915 to 1916 Eiffe was head of the German medical mission in the Kingdom of Bulgaria .
Eiffe, who co-founded the “Committee for Running” in Hamburg in 1880 and demonstrated his athletic achievements there himself, later became an honorary member of the Hamburg football club from 1888 .
Web links
- Newspaper article about Franz Ferdinand Eiffe in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Böhm, Ekkehard: Hamburg merchants in South Africa at the end of the 19th century. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History , Vol. 59, 1973, pp. 40 ff.
- ↑ German Gender Book , Vol. 180, 1979, Lower Saxony Gender Book 16, p. 298.
- ^ German biographical encyclopedia, edition 3/2000, p. 59.
- ↑ Games and Sports, May 28, 1913.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eiffe, Franz Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and politician, MdHB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1941 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |