Philipp Casimir Krafft
Philipp Casimir Krafft (born April 5, 1773 in Kaiserslautern , † May 12, 1836 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German tobacco manufacturer and member of the state parliament.
Life
Philipp Casimir Krafft was a tobacco and cigar manufacturer in Offenbach. From 1821 to 1836 he was the founding president of the Offenbach Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In 1812 he bought the former Stromersche house at Theresienstraße 7 in Nuremberg, which was converted by Jakob Welser in 1512, from the von Pfinzing family.
Krafft was elected to the second chamber of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse for the constituency of the city of Offenbach in 1820 and was a member of the chamber until 1824.
He is buried in the old cemetery in Offenbach .
family
Philipp Casimir Krafft, who was a Protestant denomination, married Louise Christiane nee Heintz, the daughter of Andreas Heinz and Maria Catharina Koch. The following children were born from the marriage:
- Philipp Casimir Krafft (1799–1850), merchant, tobacco manufacturer
- Carl Krafft (1800–1864), cigar manufacturer
- Auguste Christiane Friederike Bastian, b. Krafft (1803–1873), married the merchant in Bremen Hermann Theodor Bastian,
- Emilie Louise Rosine d'Orville, b. Krafft (1810–1880), married the tobacco manufacturer Adolf Heinrich d'Orville
Since 2016, the Haus der Stadtgeschichte (Offenbach am Main) has been showing two renovated portraits of the Kraft couple from the 1840s, which were bought at auction in 2014.
Web links
- Krafft, Philipp Casimir in the Hessian Biography
- Two portraits of the married couple Philipp Casimir Krafft and his wife of the Viennese portrait painter Anton Hähnisch (1817 Vienna - 1897 Karlsruhe) in the Offenbach City Museum
literature
- Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , No. 475.
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 224.
- Kurt Glück and Hermann Görlich: 150 years of the Offenbach am Main Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1821–1971, 1970
Individual evidence
- ↑ Golden frame for founders of the Offenbach Chamber of Industry and Commerce in FAZ from February 24, 2016, page 42
Philipp Casimir Krafft (1820–1824) | Anton André (1826-1830) | Friedrich Schenck (1832–1833) | Frédéric Pfaltz (1834) | Peter Georg d'Orville (1835–1841) | Valentin Otto (1841–1849) | Eduard Gölzenleuchter (1849) | August Metz (1850-1856) | Ludwig Ewald (1856–1862) | Joseph Hillebrand (1862–1865) | August Ludwig Kugler (1865–1866) | Carl Johann Hoffmann (1866–1872) | Friedrich Greim (1872–1874) | Hermann Weber (1874–1878) | Gustav Böhm (1878–1888) | Hermann Weber (1888–1896) | Carl Ulrich (1897–1918) | Leonhard Eißnert (1911–1918) for the new WB Offenbach II
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krafft, Philipp Casimir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tobacco manufacturer and member of the Grand Duchy of Hesse |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaiserslautern |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1836 |
| Place of death | Offenbach am Main |