Josef Mallmann

Josef Mallmann (born January 14, 1795 in Boppard , † December 15, 1857 in Simmern ) was a German politician .

Life

Mallmann was born the son of the merchant and landowner Johann Jacob Mallmann and his wife Anna Maria (née Trunck). After attending secondary school, he started as a commercial apprentice in a textile factory. In May 1813 he enlisted in the French army. He participated in the 6th coalition war as a cavalryman in the 2nd Regiment of the Garde D'honneur and was wounded in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig on October 18, 1813. After his recovery, Josef Mallmann was integrated as a lieutenant in the 7th Rhenish Landwehr Infantry Regiment and participated in the campaign of 1815 on the Prussian side. In 1816 he married the daughter of the late mayor of Simmern, Charlotte Forster. The couple had 11 children, only three sons of whom lived to see adulthood. Mallmann worked professionally as a businessman, farmer and tax collector in Simmern. Since 1837 Mallmann was a member of the Provincial Parliament for the Prussian Rhine Province for the 4th state. In 1848 he belonged to the " Pre-Parliament " in Frankfurt a. M. at. From 1849, Joseph Mallmann represented the Koblenz district in the Prussian House of Representatives in Berlin. Josef Mallmann joined the left-wing liberals.

literature

• Vera Torunsky: The Members of the Rhenish Provincial Landtag Volume 1, Cologne 1998 p. 305.
• Luitwin Mallmann: 1813, A Year in the Life of the French Guard of Honor Joseph Mallmann, private print, Düsseldorf 2019.