Max book
Max Buch , also Máximo Buch Weigang , (born April 4, 1855 in Leipzig , † around 1935) was a German consul in Spain .
Life
He was the son of the Leipzig machine manufacturer Bernhard Buch and his wife Amalie nee Weigang. After attending secondary school in Leipzig, he received his professional training at a commercial private school. He completed his apprenticeship in the Leipzig wholesaling house. He then signed up as a one-year volunteer and did his military service in the 107th Infantry Regiment and later eight weeks in the 101st Regiment. As a non-commissioned officer, Max Buch achieved the quality of a field hospital officer. After serving in the army, Max Buch stayed in France for about two and a half years and then in Barcelona for seven years .
In 1885 he founded the Máximo Buch company (Fábrica de Cepillos) in Valencia . On May 2, 1896, he was appointed German consul. As such, he was in office until at least 1924. He was responsible for the Spanish provinces of Valencia, Castellón and Teruel.
On November 9, 1895, Max Buch was appointed representative of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig.
In 1908 he founded the German School Association in Valencia with Julius Bohlmann and Alfred Stiegler.
In Spain he later also had the double name Buch Weigang, in which he added his mother's maiden name to his own family name.
family
In 1897 he married Marie Rienaecker (* 1871), the daughter of Albrecht Rienaecker, who had a doctorate, and his wife Marie nee Hoepffner. The children Max (* 1898), Johanna (* 1900) and Carl (* 1904) emerged from their marriage.
Honors
- Grand Ducal Oldenburg Knight of Honor Cross 1st Class of the House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig and the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Ducal Saxon Ernestine House Order
- Cross of Merit for combatants
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Xth edition, Berlin 1935, p. 216.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbook for the German Reich, edited in the Reich Office of the Interior , 1924, p. 84.
- ↑ 26. Report of the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig . Leipzig 1898, p. 17.
- ^ German school association in Valencia
- ↑ See Las provincias, diario de Valencia: Almanaque para el año [...] , 1943, p. 629.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Book, max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Book, Máximo; Book Weigang, Máximo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German consul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1935 |