Georg Hempel (politician, 1847)
Eduard Georg Hempel (born April 17, 1847 in Pulsnitz , † October 11, 1904 in Ohorn ) was a German entrepreneur , manor owner and politician .
Life
Hempel attended the Annen Realschule in Dresden and later the Dresden Polytechnic , where he studied mechanical engineering. He began his practical commercial training in Barmen and then worked for several years in France ( Paris , Le Havre , St. Etienne ), Great Britain ( London ) and the USA ( New York ). He joined the family company Chr. Hempels Ww. & Sohn , founded in 1768 , in 1872. Since 1886 he was the sole owner of the same company and of a factory built in 1881 in Grodzisk near Warsaw (then part of Russia ) under the same company . He was also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Saxon Bank in Dresden and Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce in Zittau , of which he had been a member since 1881. He was also a member of the Kamenz district assembly and city councilor in Pulsnitz. From 1890 he managed the Ohorn manor, which his family had owned for a long time .
At that time he had the largest private cactus collection in Germany and was a member of the German Cactus Society . The cactus species Opuntia hempeliana (an unsolved name) and Echinocereus hempelii are named after him.
From 1890 to 1893 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency Kingdom of Saxony 3 ( Bautzen , Kamenz , Bischofswerda ) and the German Conservative Party . From 1893 he was appointed member of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament . He carried the honorary title of a (royal Saxon) commercial councilor , later a secret commercial councilor .
He died of a heart condition in 1904, four weeks after his wife and one day after his only son. A daughter survived him.
literature
- Georg Hempel † . In: Monthly for Kakteenkunde , 14th year 1904, number 11, p. 163 f. ( online )
Web links
- Hempel, Eduard Georg in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Biography of Eduard Georg Hempel . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
- History of the Ohorn estate on ohorn.info
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hempel, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hempel, Eduard Georg (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, manor owner and politician (MdR) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pulsnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1904 |
| Place of death | Ohorn |