Karl Pfretzschner

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Karl Siegmund Pfretzschner (born April 23, 1810 in Stockheim , † November 25, 1878 in Kronach ) was a Bavarian merchant and banker as well as a member of the German customs parliament .

Life

Karl Pfretzschner attended grammar school in Würzburg and studied medicine at the universities of Würzburg and Munich . During his studies in 1829 he became a member of the Germania Würzburg fraternity . Because of his involvement in the Frankfurt Wachensturm on April 3, 1833, he was arrested and, after more than six years of pre-trial detention, acquitted by the Munich Higher Appeal Court . Since he could not continue his medical studies, he switched to trading and founded a metal goods store in Kronach in 1843. Later he ran a bank and an export company in Kronach.

From 1868 to 1870 Pfretzschner belonged as a deputy for the constituency Oberfranken 4 ( Kronach , Staffelstein , light rock , Stadtsteinach , Teuschnitz ) and the Bavarian Fortschrittspartei the Zollparlament on.

His cousin Adolph von Pfretzschner was a Bavarian civil servant from the 1840s and chairman of the Bavarian Council of Ministers from 1872 to 1880 .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 316.

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