Friedrich Wilhelm Schrewe

Friedrich Wilhelm Schrewe , also Schreve (* December 20, 1772 in Herford ; † June 1833 there ), was a German entrepreneur and politician.

Schrewe was the son of the entrepreneur Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Schrewe. The family had been running a cotton and calico factory in Herford since 1801. This cotton mill used workers from the local penitentiary and children from the poor house. In 1803 he employed 110 people. The company expanded rapidly. In 1809 he employed 200 freelancers in addition to the prisoners, and in 1819 already 320. After the end of the wars of liberation , the company could no longer assert itself against its English competitors and went bankrupt. Schrewe was elected in the first election to the provincial parliament of the province of Westphalia as a member of the state of the cities in the constituency of Minden-Ravensberg and the city of Herford. In 1826 he himself did not take part in the state parliament ( Johann Diedrich Kielbeck from Herford, who had been elected as his deputy, did this), but at the second state parliament in 1828 he took part in the deliberations.

literature

• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 564.
• Bärbel Sunderbrink: Revolutionary reorganization for a time: Lived constitutional culture in the Kingdom of Westphalia: The example of Minden-Ravensberg 1807-1813, Volume 75 of research on regional history, 2015, ISBN 9783657781508 , p. 200, digitized .
• Alexander Drexler: Old and New Care: Commercial Funding from 1800 to Today, 2013, ISBN 9783322874528 , p. 212 ff., Digitized .
• Gerhard Adelmann: The cotton industry in Northwest Germany and the neighboring countries to the west during the transition from the pre-industrial to the early industrial period, 1750-1815: entanglement and regional differentiation, 2001, ISBN 9783515078320 , p. 102, digitized .