Gottfried Scharff
Gottfried Scharff (born June 5, 1782 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 20, 1855 there ) was a German businessman and politician.
life and work
Scharff came from a family of merchants who originally immigrated from Bohemia and had lived in Frankfurt am Main as citizens since 1700. His father was the businessman Johann Valentin Gottfried Scharff (1752–1800), his mother the bourgeois daughter Anna Maria geb. Stein (1759-1826). Scharff attended school in Frankfurt, later the Latin school in Wertheim. After graduating from school, he started working as an apprentice in his father's hardware store, after whose death he was declared of age at the age of 17.
In 1815 he represented the Frankfurt citizenship at the Congress of Vienna , where he advocated that Frankfurt should regain its independence. After the Free City of Frankfurt was constituted on October 17, 1816, Scharff was elected Senator , and in 1831 he was elected alderman for life. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1817 to 1818, 1821, 1825, 1828 to 1829, 1832 to 1839, and 1848 . In 1822, 1826 and 1830 the Senate appointed him junior mayor . In 1835 he negotiated the city of Frankfurt's accession to the German Customs Union . In 1840, 1842, 1844 and 1846 he was Senior Mayor .
Scharff was a promoter of railway construction, he was one of the initiators of the Main-Neckar-Bahn and the Main-Weser-Bahn . Numerous well-known artists frequented his house, including the Brothers Grimm and Ernst Moritz Arndt .
Scharff was married to Maria Victoria Auguste, b. Wagner (1788-1819). His sons Friedrich Adolf (1812–1881) and Constantin Alexander (1816–1900) also belonged to Frankfurt's political elite. Their names can be found on the board of the Polytechnic Society , the Frankfurter Bank , the Chamber of Commerce, the chemical factory Griesheim electron and the Frankfurt spring water supply company , which set up the first long-distance water supply from Vogelsberg and Spessart in 1872 . The Frankfurt Scharff family branch (since 1886: Schmidt-Scharff ) still exists today. The family archive is located in the Institute for City History , Scharff's grave in the main cemetery .
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
Web links
- Scharff, Gottfried. Hessian biography. (As of February 17, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scharff, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1855 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |