Friedrich von Rauch

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Friedrich Eduard Moriz "Fritz" von Rauch (born October 20, 1823 in Heilbronn ; † August 11, 1890 at the Kohlhof near Heidelberg ) was a German manufacturer and politician . From 1849 he headed the Rauch brothers paper mill, and from 1871 to 1890 he was chairman of the Heilbronn Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From 1875 to 1876 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Württemberg Land estates .

Life

Rauch was a Protestant denomination and the son of the Heilbronn paper manufacturer Moriz von Rauch and his wife Charlotte nee. Hauck, a Frankfurt banker's daughter. He had seven siblings.

From 1843 to 1846 he studied in Bonn and Berlin . In 1843 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . He then worked for a year and a half in his grandfather's (maternal) banking business in Frankfurt am Main and also went to London . In 1847 he joined the Rauch brothers paper mill, which his father had built up together with his brother Adolf von Rauch . After his father's death, he and his uncle took over the management of the factory from 1849.

Friedrich von Rauch was an advisory board member for 14 years, most recently an honorary member of the Royal Central Office for Trade and Industry in Stuttgart . In 1869 he was one of the founders of the Württembergische Vereinsbank . In 1855 he was a co-founder of the Heilbronn Chamber of Commerce and Industry , in 1864 he became its vice-chairman, and from 1871 he was its chairman, which he remained until a few months before his death in 1890.

The Greater German -minded Friedrich von Rauch was not a member of the Heilbronn municipal council , only in 1870 he was elected to the citizens' committee. When the mandate holder Friedrich Eduard Mayer died in the state constituency of Heilbronn Stadt , he ran for the required replacement on May 13, 1875 without opposing candidates and was elected. Because of the insufficient number of voters, the election had to be repeated on May 19. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies until the end of the legislature in 1876.

family

Friedrich von Rauch married Anna Feyerabend (1839-1919) on January 9, 1866, the older sister of Adolf Feyerabend . The marriage resulted in a son, the historian and Heilbronn city archivist Moriz von Rauch .

Honors

The Rauchstrasse in Heilbronn has been named after the Rauch family since 1900.

literature

  • 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. 695 .
  • Walther Mosthaf: The Württemberg Chambers of Industry and Commerce Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Reutlingen, Ulm 1855–1955. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Reutlingen, Ulm. Volume I, The Chambers of Commerce and Industry 1855–1899. Published by the Chambers of Commerce and Industry Stuttgart, Heilbronn, Reutlingen, Ulm. Stuttgart 1955, DNB 457641312 , p. 170
  • Frieder Schmidt:  Rauch, von (Württemberg nobility 1808). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 194 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gustav Gotthilf Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928. Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 106.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Reuter: Between honorary elections and the “party principle”: Heilbronn local politics between the restoration and the founding of an empire. In: Heilbronnica 3. Contributions to the city and regional history. Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 2006, ISBN 3-928990-95-0 , pp. 205–243, here p. 240 ( PDF file; 204 kB )
  2. ↑ Heilbronn City Archives , Contemporary History Collection, signature ZS-10319, entry on Friedrich von Rauch in the HEUSS database (accessed on January 3, 2013)
  3. ^ Gerhard Schwinghammer and Reiner Makowski: The Heilbronner street names . Edited by the city of Heilbronn. 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-677-6 , p. 166
personal data
SURNAME Rauch, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauch, Fritz von; Rauch, Friedrich Eduard Moriz von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1890
Place of death Kohlhof near Heidelberg