Heinrich Conrad Carl

The Secret Commerce Councilor Heinrich Conrad Carl (or from 1861 von Carl ) (born October 22, 1795 in Brandenburg , † October 23, 1867 in Berlin ) was a German entrepreneur and conservative politician.

Carl was the owner of the Busse & Sohn cloth factory in Luckenwalde until 1853 . In 1849 he became chairman of the board of directors of the Berlin-Anhalt Railway . He was also a member of the Immediate Commission for the Control of Banknotes and the National Debt Commission. He was a member of the corporation of the merchants of Berlin , which he headed from 1846-1858 as chairman of its elders college. In 1855 and 1862 he was a judge at the world exhibitions in Paris and London . In 1861 he was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility. In 1867 he set up a foundation to support needy children of civil servants and officers.

From May 1848 to February 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for the constituency of Jüterbog . He was initially a member of the Café Milani faction and later moved to the casino faction . In parliament he is a member of the Economic Committee. In 1849 he was a member of the Gotha Assembly and in 1850 of the Erfurt Union Parliament . From 1849 he was a member of the second chamber or the House of Representatives in the Prussian state parliament . There he was a member of the Auerswald-Schwerin parliamentary group.

literature

• Christof Biggeleben: The "bulwark of the bourgeoisie". The Berlin merchants. CH Beck, Munich 2006.
• Jochen Lengemann: The German Parliament (Erfurt Union Parliament) from 1850. A manual: members, officials, life data, parliamentary groups . Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-437-31128-X , p. 108f.