Ludwig Achenbach

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Ludwig Achenbach (born August 26, 1812 in Mannheim ; † 1879 ) was a lawyer and politician from Baden . He was Lord Mayor of Mannheim and a member of the Baden state parliament.

Life

Ludwig Achenbach studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bonn law . In Heidelberg he joined the Corps Rhenania Heidelberg and in Bonn in 1832 the Corps Rhenania Bonn .

Achenbach had been a senior court counsel for a long time before he was elected as a member of the Baden state parliament in 1854 , to which he belonged until 1866. There he supported the liberal policies of August Lamey . In 1861 the Great Citizens' Committee elected Achenbach as Lord Mayor of Mannheim. The first permanent bridge over the Rhine was built during his tenure . He also campaigned for the Mannheim – Karlsruhe Rhine Valley Railway . In the petty bourgeoisie, however, he could no longer find a majority, so that he lost to Eduard Moll in the mayoral election in 1870 . Achenbach is buried in the main cemetery in Mannheim .

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Walter : Mannheim in the past and present. Volume 2: History of Mannheim from the transition to Baden (1802) to the foundation of the empire. 1907. Unchanged reprint: Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-8128-0001-2 .
  • Rudolf Haas, Wolfgang Münkel: Guide to the graves of well-known Mannheim personalities. Mannheim 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 15 , 147
personal data
SURNAME Achenbach, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH 1879