Gustav Fedor Zschille

Gustav Fedor Zschille (born June 26, 1819 in Großenhain , † March 31, 1888 in Montreux ) was a German cloth manufacturer and Saxon politician. As a representative of trade and manufacturing, he was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 1854 to 1862 . He also carried the title of a royal Saxon secret council of commerce .

Life

The Großenhain cloth factory of the Zschille brothers around 1856

Zschille was with Therese Ernestine, geb. Einsiedel, married. From 1846 he ran a textile factory and a worsted spinning mill in Großenhain. He was also involved in the Zschille brothers' cloth factory , which was owned by Herrmann Zschille and Louis Zschille in the mid-19th century. He later owned shares in the Berlin-Dresden Railway .

He finally died in the spring of 1888 in Montreux, Switzerland .

The family grave of the Zschilles

The Zschilles belonged to the large entrepreneurial families in Großenhain. In 1883, on the occasion of Martin Luther's 400th birthday, the members of the family donated the Easter window , which has been preserved to this day, in the town's Marienkirche , in which the reformer himself is depicted with a portrait. That year Kurt Fedor Zschille died of typhus at the age of only 23. The early death of the proposed company successor prompted the family to set up a family grave, which is currently a listed building. The system initially had a length of 12 meters. However, it was divided in 1887 and half went to Zschille's business partner and later partner Georg August Groos.

In the middle of the 2010s, the facility was in a condition worthy of renovation. Rainer von Oheimb from Darmstadt, a great-grandson of Zschille, and his wife finally discovered them in search of their family roots and had them renovated, investing around € 7,000 from their own resources. Among other things, the part of the system that has meanwhile been covered by facing masonry was exposed. Furthermore, the grave inscription spanning the tomb with the words "The noble lives on after his death and is as effective as he lived, the good deed, the beautiful word, it strives immortally as he strives mortally." Was restored through this work made legible. In addition, the graves of the Grossenhain cloth manufacturer Richard Zschille (1847–1903) and his son Louis Zschille-Hartmann (1875–1913) were also renovated as part of the restoration work .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Der Arbeiterfreund: Journal of the Central Association in Prussia for the welfare of the working classes . tape 26 , 1888, pp. 134 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Kathrin Krüger-Mlaouhia: “Zschille grave is renewed” in Sächsische Zeitung , November 30, 2017
3. ↑ Louis Oeser (Ed.): Album of the Saxon Industry . tape 1 . Neusalza 1856, p. 75-76 .
4. ^ Otto Glagau: The stock exchange and start-up fraud in Berlin . Paul Frohberg, Leipzig 1877, p. 100 .