Johann Philipp Sunday

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Johann Philipp Sonntag (born May 31, 1778 at the Mauracher Hof near Denzlingen , † January 17, 1845 in Emmendingen ) was a paper manufacturer and politician from Baden .

The son of a landowner attended the Latin school in Müllheim before he trained as a businessman in Basel . Since 1800 he had the citizenship of the city of Emmendingen, bought a stately house there and in 1801 married Maria Jacobina Kreglinger, the daughter of a wealthy landlord and postman. In 1813 he bought a paper mill that was still making paper by hand until his death and that employed 150 people in its heyday. From 1831 to 1835 he was mayor of his city and was a member of the second chamber of the Baden state parliament in Karlsruhe during this period . He was the brother-in-law of Landtag member Christoph Kreglinger . Johann Philipp Sonntag was a member of the Protestant Church.

literature

  • Hans-Peter Becht: The Baden second chamber and its members, 1819 to 1841/42. Investigations into the structure and functioning of an early German parliament. Dissertation University of Mannheim, Heidelberg 1985, p. 497