Philipp Ludwig Adam

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Philipp Ludwig Adam (born March 11, 1813 in Ulm , † March 23, 1893 in Munich ) was a German entrepreneur and politician.

Life

Philipp Ludwig Adam attended secondary school and grammar school in Ulm. He studied from 1831 to 1835 philosophy and law in Würzburg , Berlin , Heidelberg and Tübingen , where he in 1834 to Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a lawyer . From 1841 he was the owner of the Stettin'schen Verlag bookstore in Ulm as a bookseller and publisher . He married Emilie Philippine Ida Sick from Speyer , who was accepted into Ulm's citizenship on the occasion of their wedding in 1844. The archivist and librarian Albert Eugen Adam was their son.

Adam founded and directed the Danube Steamship Company in Ulm. From 1849 to 1875 he was, together with the businessman Georg Friedrich Kiderlen, a personal partner in the savings and credit association in Ulm, which earned him the title of commercial councilor . In addition, Adam was strongly integrated into the club life in Ulm, among other things in the civil society , in the gymnastics club , in the association for art and antiquity and in the national constitutional association . During this time he was a member of the board of directors of the Wuerttemberg Großdeutschen Verein , member of the building section of the Ulm Münsterbauverein , board member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Ulm, chairman of the Ulm trade association and many other bodies.

After his bankruptcy in 1875 following the collapse of the Württembergische Commissionsbank, Adam moved to Munich in 1876, where he became the owner of a directory publisher in 1879.

politics

From 1838 to 1871 Adam was a member of the citizens' committee and the municipal council of Ulm. In 1841 he temporarily ended his mandate in protest against the election of a city council for life, which earned him a fine.

In 1848 he became a member of the second chamber of the Württemberg state parliament , of which he was a member until 1849. From April 30, 1849 to May 30, 1849 Adam was a member of the crumbling Frankfurt National Assembly for one month as the successor to Conrad Haßler as a non-attached member of his home constituency, the 2nd Danube District.

literature

  • Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 79.
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 3-4 .
  • Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 2-4 .

Web links

Wikisource: Philipp Ludwig Adam  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emilie Philippine Ida Sick was included in the Ulm Civil Code on the occasion of her marriage to Dr. Philipp Ludwig Adam, owner of the Stettin bookstore in Ulm (May / June 1844) Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Department Main State Archives Stuttgart, J. 50 Bü. 192.
  2. ↑ Adam, Albert Eugen von. In: Our contemporaries. Who is it Volume 8. Herrmann AL Degener , Leipzig 1922, p. 51.
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Philipp Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1893
Place of death Munich