Ludwig usurers

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Ludwig usurers

Ludwig Wucherer (born May 30, 1790 in Halle (Saale) ; † December 15, 1861 there ) was a German entrepreneur.

Life

He was the youngest son of the Halle Chamber Council and Golgas manufacturer ( coal gas entrepreneur ) Matthäus Wucherer in Grosse Ulrichstrasse 73. After the early death of his parents, Wucherer took over their Golgas factory, which he successfully continued. He became a city councilor and paid treasurer in Halle (Saale). In 1826 he was co-founder of the committee for the transport of Halleschen Schiffahrt and in 1844, together with the mayor Karl August Wilhelm Bertram, co-founder and first head of the Chamber of Commerce for Halle and the Saalkreis.

Wucherer helped Halle very early on to a stop on the Leipzig – Halle – Magdeburg railway , which was put into operation by the Magdeburg-Leipzig Railway Company until 1840 . His closest friends included Karl August Jacob , Johann Gottfried Boltze and Carl Degenkolb , with whom he founded Werschen-Weißenfelser Braunkohlen AG in 1855 . Usurer was a member of the Halle Masonic lodge to the three swords . His grave is on Halle's Stadtgottesacker (arch 14).

literature

  • Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg :  Usurer, Matthäus Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 263-266.
  • Erich Neuss : Ludwig Wucherer . In: Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and for Anhalt (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder. 2. Volume Pictures of 19th Century Life. Self-published, Magdeburg 1927, pp. 137–145.
  • Sebastian Kranich : Mathäus Ludwig Wucherer, Carl August Jacob, Johann Gottfried Boltze, Carl Adolph Riebeck: Christian entrepreneurs in the Halle area, in: Ders., Peggy Renger-Berka, Klaus Tanner (ed.): Deaconesses - entrepreneurs - pastors. Social Protestantism in Central Germany in the 19th Century, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02686-9 , pp. 83–118, here pp. 85–92.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Neuss: Karl August Jacob . Gebauer-Schwetschke printing and publishing house, 1929, p. 254.
personal data
SURNAME Usurer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1861
Place of death Halle (Saale)