Franz Ulpian Wirth

Franz Ulpian Wirth (born July 6, 1826 in Bayreuth ; † May 16, 1897 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German politician and peace activist.

Life

Wirth was a son of the journalist, politician and co-organizer of the Hambach Festival Johann Georg August Wirth and his wife Regina Wirth . During the period of political persecution of his father, he lived with his mother and two siblings in Weissenburg in Alsace from 1833 . After attending schools in Hof, Homburg in the Palatinate, Nancy and Constance , Wirth studied economics at the University of Heidelberg and the technical universities in Munich and Hanover . During his studies in 1846 he became a member of the old Heidelberg fraternity Franconia ; In 1886 he became an honorary member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . After taking his engineering examination, he became a railway engineer in the Bavarian state service and went to the Bavarian telegraph office in Frankfurt am Main in the 1850s.

With his brother Max Wirth , he imported the most modern machines, especially those for agriculture . With him he founded 1856 in Frankfurt am Main the weekly newspaper Der employers as organ of the demand and supply of work, which from 1878 the patent attorney. Archives for trademark and design protection and patents and new inventions . He published numerous publications on patents and worked as a patent attorney in his own law firm, which his son Richard Wirth later took over. In 1861 he took part in the first German shooting festival in Gotha . From 1894 he was self-published the sheet for patents, designs and symbols . He was a member of the first patent inquiry with which he campaigned for the creation of patent protection. As a representative of the Association of German Engineers , he campaigned for the German section of the congress for international protection of industrial and intellectual property.

From 1886 to 1892 he was a member of the Frankfurt city ​​council and democratic city ​​council of the faction of the South German People's Party .

He was a member of the international commission of the International Peace Bureau and campaigned for the idea of ​​peace ; So he was among other things next to Hodgson Pratt in 1886 co-founder and first chairman of the Frankfurt Peace Association and subsequently involved in about 40 foundations of other local groups of the German Peace Association.

Publications

• The German Volksbanks. Flyer Frankfurt am Main 1861.
• The patent reform. 1875
• Protection of inventions, with special reference to Switzerland. Zurich 1877
• The Reform of Patent Legislation in Modern Times. Frankfurt am Main 1883.

literature

• Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Wirth, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 527-531.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 336-337.