Peter Joseph hammer blow

Peter Joseph Hammerschlag (born January 26, 1817 in Limburg an der Lahn ; † December 31, 1888 ibid) was a German businessman and local and regional politician in Limburg an der Lahn and in the Duchy of Nassau .

Hammerschlag was born as the son of the teacher Franz Jacob Hammerschlag and his wife Catharina, b. Remelt, born. He received his school education at the pedagogy in Wiesbaden and from 1833 at the grammar school Philippinum Weilburg . At first Hammerschlag wanted to study theology and with this goal he entered the Idstein Teachers' College , but in the following year he took up commercial activities in Mainz , Limburg and Koblenz . He then traveled to the Duchy of Nassau and the Rhine-Moselle region as a traveling salesman. In 1843 he founded his own material goods and paint shop in Limburg, which in the following decades transformed into a food wholesaler and with this orientation was to exist for around 150 years. In 1846 Peter Joseph Hammerschlag married Anna Christina Keppel (May 10, 1818 - March 28, 1861), the daughter of the timber merchant Caspar Keppel, in Niederwalluf

With the German Revolution of 1848/1849 at the latest , Hammerschlag became active in local politics. In the primary election to the Frankfurt National Assembly , he unsuccessfully applied as a voter. On December 29, 1848 he was elected to the Limburg municipal council. There he represented liberal positions that brought him into conflict with the prevailing political Catholicism in the diocese of Limburg. After a dispute and a loss of the vote about the use of a Catholic religious order as nursing staff in the city hospital, Hammerschlag resigned his mandate in the municipal council in mid-1849. In the same year he took part in the Nassau State Congress of Democrats in Idstein

From 1860 to 1866, Hammerschlag was the successor to Josef Menges as a member of the ninth constituency in the Second Chamber of the Nassau estates . In 1884 he retired from business life and handed over the management of the trading company to his son.

literature

• Heinz Maibach: On the response to the Baden revolution in the Duchy of Nassau . In: Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research (Hrsg.): Nassauische Annalen . tape 99 . Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Wiesbaden 1988, p. 51-74 .

Web links

• Hammer blow, Peter Josef. Hessian biography. (As of July 30, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).