Friedrich Reiss (politician, 1802)

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Friedrich Reiss (born October 2, 1802 in Karlsruhe , † August 24, 1881 in Mannheim ) was a Baden entrepreneur and politician. From 1849 to 1852 he was the first mayor of Mannheim.

Gravesite of Friedrich, Wilhelm and Carl Reiss, Mannheim

Reiss was born in Karlsruhe in 1802 as the son of a car manufacturer. In 1830 he went to Mannheim and traded in wood, tobacco and colonial goods. He made a fortune in particular with the timber trade with Holland . From 1847 to 1849 Reiss was captain of the Mannheim vigilante group . After the Baden Revolution of 1848/49, the state government appointed him mayor in Mannheim. In 1850 he was confirmed by election and now fended off interference from the royal seat of Karlsruhe. Two years later he resigned from his position. From 1850 to 1852 he was also a member of the Baden state parliament and from 1861 to 1870 for the National Liberal Party city ​​council in Mannheim.

In 1865 he founded the Badische aniline and soda factory with Friedrich Engelhorn , August Clemm , Carl Clemm , Seligmann Ladenburg , Leopold Ladenburg and others and was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors until 1873. After his plan to found the Badische Bank initially failed to find a majority in the state parliament, the Rheinische Creditbank was founded under his leadership in 1870 .

Friedrich Reiss was married to Wilhelmine Reinhardt, a granddaughter of the former Lord Mayor of Mannheim , Johann Wilhelm Reinhardt . Her children were Anna Reiss , Wilhelm Reiss and Carl Reiss . The city of Mannheim maintains his grave in the main cemetery as a grave of honor .

See also

literature

  • Gustaf Jacob: Friedrich Engelhorn: The founder of the Baden aniline and soda factory. Mannheim 1959.
  • Friedrich Walter : Mannheim in the past and present. Volume 2: History of Mannheim from the transition to Baden (1802) to the foundation of the empire. 1907. Unchanged reprint: Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8128-0001-2 .