Friedrich Feustel

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Friedrich Feustel

Friedrich Feustel , from 1891 von Feustel , (born January 21, 1824 in Egern am Tegernsee , † October 12, 1891 in Bayreuth ) was a German banker, member of the Reichstag and an important sponsor of the Bayreuth Festival .

Life

Feustel's house in Bayreuth Bahnhofstrasse 15 (1911)

Feustel took over the Bayreuth brewery from Hugo Bayerlein in 1872 together with the bankers Wilmersdörfer and Riemann and the landowner Roth , which he then converted into a stock corporation.

When Richard Wagner made concrete plans for his stage festival in Bayreuth in 1871 , he and his wife Cosima did not know any of the leading figures in Bayreuth. In this situation, Wagner wrote to Feustel in November 1871, to whom his sister Ottilie Brockhaus had drawn his attention. Feustel was a distant relative of her husband Hermann Brockhaus . The friendship established by the two men lasted until Wagner's death in 1883.

Feustel, who also played an important role in secrecy in the Bayreuth Masonic Lodge Eleusis since 1843 and was ennobled in 1891 , supported the festival idea both financially and socially. His son-in-law Adolf von Groß was the festival's financial administrator for many years. After Feustel's death, Leopold von Casselmann succeeded him as a member of the Reichstag in 1891.

As a candidate for the National Liberal Party, Feustel was a member of the Reichstag from 1877 until his death , where he represented the constituency of Upper Franconia 2 (Bayreuth) as a member of parliament.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Place of birth according to: Friedrich Feustel in the database of the Reichstag members
  2. ↑ Arno Kröniger : Bareith is copper! Akron, Bayreuth 2011, ISBN 3-9808215-6-0 , p. 17 .
  3. ↑ https://bayreuther-bier.de/unsere-brauerei/
  4. ↑ https://www.getraenke-beck-rt.de/sortiment/unsere-biere/bayrische-brauereien/bayreuther-bierbrauerei-ag~1092.de.html
  5. ^ W. Bronnenmeyer: Richard Wagner. Citizens in Bayreuth . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1983, p. 45 .
  6. ^ Robert A. Minder: Freemason Politicians Lexicon, study publisher; Page 292, Innsbruck 2004, 350 pages, ISBN 3-7065-1909-7
  7. ^ 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. 202.
personal data
SURNAME Feustel, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feustel, Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and politician (NLP), MdR, friend of Richard Wagner
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Egern am Tegernsee
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1891
Place of death Bayreuth