Gustav Philipp

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Gustav Adolf Eduard Philipp (born March 14, 1841 in Frauenstein ; † February 11, 1897 in Radeberg ) was a German liberal politician ( German Progressive Party ). He was a long-time member of the Saxon state parliament and director of the Radeberger export beer brewery .

Life and work

The son of the Frauenstein mayor Gotthelf Immanuel Philipp (1799–1842), who was also a lawyer and patrimonial judge in Pfaffroda , received his first education through private education. He then attended grammar school in Freiberg up to Tertia and then switched to a commercial school. He completed a three-year commercial apprenticeship in the department store des Kaufmanns Modes in Freiberg. Around 1860 he was employed at the bank Kuntze & Co. in Dresden, where he had the power of attorney . He also worked as an auditor for cash transactions at various commercial enterprises and savings banks . From 1867 to 1870 he was chief controller in the Agricultural Loan Association in the Kingdom of Saxony , of which he was one of the founders. From 1872 he was a full member of the association's board of directors.

Since 1869 Philipp was married to Anna Zenker (* 1848), daughter of the manorial estate and inheritance court owner Johann Gotthelf Zenker (1819–1871) in Kleinwolmsdorf . From 1871 to 1884 he was inheritance administrator of his wife and owner of the feudal court in Kleinwolmsdorf. With his wife's fortune, Philipp was one of the co-founders of the Bergkeller stock brewery in 1872 , from which the Radeberger export beer brewery developed. From 1874 until his death he was the brewery director. In 1884 he sold the feudal court to Kleinwolmsdorf and moved to Dresden. After his fortune had been consumed by numerous grants to the brewery, he was on the verge of economic collapse in 1889. From 1890 he was full-time manager of the Radeberger export beer brewery in Dresden and in 1894 he moved to Radeberg.

From 1871 until his death he represented the 9th rural constituency in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament .

His son Albrecht Philipp (1883–1962) was also a member of the Saxon state parliament and from 1919 to 1930 a member of the Reichstag . Another son, Kurt Philipp (1878 – after 1954), worked as a lawyer with a doctorate and advisor to the Agricultural Credit Association.

literature

  • Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder: Saxon parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical manual . Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties 5), p. 441f