Peter Otto Clauss

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Peter Otto Clauss

Peter Otto Clauß (born October 21, 1787 in Leipzig , † January 29, 1872 in Chemnitz ) was a German industrialist and politician.

Live and act

Clauss, who comes from the Saxon trade fair city of Leipzig, completed a commercial apprenticeship in England. In 1809 he joined the Benjamin Gottlieb Pflugbeil & Co. company , which ran a calico printing plant in Chemnitz and a cotton spinning mill in Plaue near Flöha . Together with his younger brother Ernst Iselin Clauß, he took over the company from their brother-in-law, Privy Councilor Seeber, in 1815. In 1828 they separated the businesses. From then on, Peter Otto Clauß ran the Chemnitz calico factory, his brother took over the spinning mill under his own name . From 1820 Jacob Bernhard Eisenstuck worked in the von Clauß company as a commercial trainee and finally from 1831 as a partner.

Clauß was involved in numerous political and entrepreneurial associations. In 1828 he was a co-founder and board member of the Industry Association for the Kingdom of Saxony and in 1836 one of the founders of the Association of Saxon Spinning Mill Owners in Chemnitz . He still belonged to the literary association , the Gustav Adolf Association , the association for the welfare of those released from domestic penal and supply institutions, and was an honorary member of the Lodge Zur Harmonie and a member of the Erzgebirge Railway Company .

From 1832 to 1835 he was a member of the Chemnitz city council. From 1833 to 1847 he was one of the representatives of trade and factories in the Second Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament . In 1844 he accompanied the lawyer and later Saxon Prime Minister Alexander Karl Hermann Braun through some southern German states to study the public court hearings there. He was an honorary citizen of the city of Chemnitz.

After retiring from political life before the March Revolution in 1848 , he sold his company in 1850.

literature

  • Wolfgang Uhlmann : The work of Chemnitz deputy in the Saxon state parliament (1833-1867) . In: Manfred Hettling (ed.): Figures and structures: historical essays for Hartmut Zwahr on his 65th birthday , pp. 575–601
  • Ernst Stephan Clauß : A century of cotton fine spinning 1809–1909 EI Clauss Nachf. (Festschrift), Plaue bei Flöha 1909.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. also Petra Listewski:  Pflugbeil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 358 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 94
personal data
SURNAME Clauss, Peter Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician, MdL (Kingdom of Saxony)
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1872
Place of death Chemnitz