Louis linen weaver

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Louis Leinenweber (born April 14, 1850 in Pirmasens ; † October 30, 1914 there ) was a leather manufacturer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Leinweber attended the Progymnasium in Pirmasens and from 1864 to 1866 the Garnier Institute in Friedrichsdorf near Homburg vd Höhe . In 1866 he learned to make leather and in 1870 took over his leather factory in Pirmasens. 1868-69 he was a one-year volunteer in the 5th Bavarian Chevauleger Regiment, in 1870/71 he participated as a reserve lieutenant in this regiment in all battles of the 2nd Bavarian Army Corps in the Franco-German War , about which he published a book in 1911. In 1878 he became the commander of the Pirmasens fire brigade and in 1902 he made the building site available for a new Protestant orphanage. From 1879 he was a city councilor for many years and from 1884 also second mayor in Pirmasens, and from 1894 to 1899 he was also a member of the Bavarian state parliament . From 1898 to 1907 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency Pfalz 4 ( Zweibrücken , Pirmasens ) and the National Liberal Party .

In the house of the Diakonie Pirmasens, the former Protestant orphanage, there is now a Louis linen weaver hall. In addition, the Leinenweberstraße in the Winzler district is named after him, which leads south from the former orphanage.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy of www.feuerwehr-pirmasens.de ( Memento from March 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.heimkinder-forum.de
  3. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 197.
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from January 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

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SURNAME Linen weaver, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linen weaver, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German leather manufacturer and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1914
Place of death Pirmasens