Gustav Zschierlich

Gustav Zschierlich (born February 14, 1837 in Waltersdorf ; † November 23, 1925 in Geyer ) was a German entrepreneur and conservative politician .

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Zschierlich attended elementary school in his home village of Waltersdorf and then the trade school in Zittau . His schooling he completed a commercial apprenticeship in the grocery store by Henry Georgi in Dresden on. From 1856 he traveled as a traveler for regional products and cigar wholesalers, covering Saxony, Silesia and Bavaria. In April 1859 he founded his own wholesale cigar business in the west Saxon industrial city of Chemnitz , which he later connected to a grocery store.

In April 1877 he acquired the vitriol and sulfur works there in Geyer and moved to the mountain town in the Ore Mountains . He converted the plant into an earthen color factory and operated mining on colored earth, cobalt, bismuth and brownstone. In 1888 he founded the Erzgebirgische Dynamit-Aktien-Gesellschaft in Geyer.

In a by-election for from the Saxon parliament resigned deputies Karl Albin Uhlmann he was elected in 1901 in the 17 urban constituency in the II. Parliament chamber, where he remained until 1909.

His son, the chemist Walter Zschierlich, continued his father's company.

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 handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 495.