Friedrich Eduard Mayer

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Portrait of Mayer on his grave in the old cemetery of Heilbronn

Friedrich Eduard Mayer (born April 27, 1809 in Heilbronn ; † April 2, 1875 there ) was a metal goods wholesaler, member of the state and Reichstag.

Life

Mayer was the son of the Heilbronn cloth merchant Johann Friedrich Mayer (1762-1811) and his second wife Wilhelmine Heinrike Holzwarth (1769-1846). He was the third of four sons. Mayer comes from a respected Heilbronn family of Protestant denomination and is related to Philipp Melanchthon and Johannes Reuchlin . He was a second cousin of the physicist Julius Robert von Mayer . Mayer attended the secondary school in Heilbronn and then did an apprenticeship in various businesses abroad. On May 1, 1838, he married Marie Lisette Weller (1819–1874) in Heilbronn. With her he had the children Friedrich August Otto (* 1839), married to Emma Karoline Pfisterer, Emma Klothilde (* 1840, married to Hermann Faber), Paul Hermann (* 1841, later hut management assistant in Abtsgmünd and Wasseralfingen, married to Marie Julie Erhardt , daughter of the Oberbergrate Johannes Albrecht Erhardt ) and Eduard Oskar (* and † 1843).

Mayer founded a steel, iron and brass goods store in Heilbronn in 1837 and was one of the founders of the Heilbronn trade association in 1847. In 1870 he was appointed to the Commerce Council. In Heilbronn he was involved in the founding of the Heilbronner Gewerbebank, the agricultural credit bank and the savings bank, where he was appointed to the board.

Politically, Mayer was considered moderately liberal, he belonged to the national liberal German party . From 1849 to 1873 he was a member of the Heilbronn municipal council. In 1870 he was elected unopposed (see also Adolf Otto ) to the Heilbronn member of the Württemberg state parliament (electoral period from 1870 to 1876), and from 1874 until his death he belonged to the Reichstag for the constituency of Württemberg 3 ( Heilbronn , Besigheim , Brackenheim , Neckarsulm ) on. As a member of the state parliament, he was primarily interested in the state budget and state-owned companies, such as the iron and steel works.

Mayer was a Freemason in the Heilbronn Lodge Carl zum Brunnen des Heils . Here he was master of the chair from 1863 until his death .

Mayer's sprightly constitution suffered a first collapse with the death of his wife in 1874. In January 1875 he fell ill with a kidney disease with emaciation . Nevertheless, Mayer continued to fulfill his obligations as a member of parliament. He died of this disease on April 2, 1875 in Heilbronn. His grave is in the old cemetery in Heilbronn. Friedrich von Rauch won the election in the constituency of Heilbronn Stadt, which was required after his death , with no opponent .

literature

  • Maria Theresia Heitlinger: The Old Cemetery - Heilbronn Fates. Heilbronner Voice publishing house, Heilbronn 2007
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 554 .
  • Lore Riegraf: list of ancestors Robert Mayer . In: Südwestdeutsche Blätter for family history and heraldry . Published by the Association for Family and Heraldry in Württemberg and Baden e. V., Stuttgart, special issue 1982

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to the Internet database of the Utah Genealogical Society
  2. ↑ Date of birth according to the Internet database of the Utah Genealogical Society
  3. ^ Marriage according to the Internet database of the Utah Genealogical Society
  4. ↑ Date of birth according to the Internet database of the Utah Genealogical Society
  5. ^ Marriage according to the Internet database of the Utah Genealogical Society
  6. ^ "Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Württemberg", published by the royal statistical-topographical bureau, Stuttgart 1869, Verlag Carl Grüninger, page 706
  7. ^ Date of birth and marriage according to the Internet database of the Genealogical Society of Utah
  8. ↑ Date of birth and date of death from the Internet database of the Utah Genealogical Society
  9. ^ 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, p. 237.
  10. ↑ Schwäbische Kronik, No. 79 of April 4, 1875, pages 717–718

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personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Friedrich Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German metal goods wholesaler and politician (DP), member of the state parliament, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1875
Place of death Heilbronn