Karl Wessel

Karl Wessel (born November 15, 1842 in Barmen (today a district of Wuppertal ), † June 16, 1912 in Bad Harzburg ) was a German entrepreneur and politician (member of the German Reichstag ).

Life

Wessel attended secondary school in Elberfeld and completed a commercial apprenticeship in Barmen from 1859 to 1862 . Between 1868 and 1879 he maintained agencies in Duisburg for the distribution of wooden houses from Norway, Sweden, Russia and Finland. From 1880 he was general director of Deutsche Solvay -Werke AG in Bernburg , with branches in Wyhlen (Baden), Saaralben and Château-Salins . From 1878 to 1880 he was a city ​​councilor in Duisburg, since 1889 city councilor and since 1903 city councilor in Bernburg. He was the holder of the knight's insignia 1st class of the Duke of Anhalt House Order and since June 13, 1907 an honorary citizen of Bernburg. The Reichstag had its seat in Berlin , so that during this time (around 1910) Wessel took up his apartment in the Reich capital.

From 1903 to 1907 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of the Duchy of Anhalt  2 ( Bernburg , Köthen , Ballenstedt ) and the National Liberal Party .

Web links

• Karl Wessel in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Karl Wessel's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wessel Karl; Merchant . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, I, p. 3076 (Wessel was one of the few who had his own telephone connection in those years).
2. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates . Second half volume. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 1451-1455. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , vol. 15.)