Valentin Rautenstrauch
Valentin Wilhelm Christian Rautenstrauch (born April 8, 1832 in Trier ; † October 19, 1884 there ) was a Trier businessman and politician.
family
Rautenstrauch was the fifth of twelve children and the eldest son of the merchant Jean Guillaume Rautenstrauch (1791-1858) and Valentine Susanne Leonardy (1802-1848), who brought the Karthäuserhof winery into the marriage as the sole heir of her father Valentin Leonardy. His father came from a Strasbourg merchant family who had built a trading house for leather goods in Trier. He had achieved prosperity in particular through deliveries of leather to the Prussian army.
In 1860 Rautenstrauch married Lilla Bertha Deichmann (1842–1925), with whom he had nine children. Their eldest son was Wilhelm Rautenstrauch .
Life
Valentin Rautenstrauch entered his father's business with an apprenticeship as a businessman. In 1857 he traveled to South America on behalf of the company and set up a branch in Buenos Aires that was dedicated to the purchase of hides. In 1858 he got into his father's business, took it over after his death and continued to run it successfully.
Rautenstrauch was Vice President from 1868 to 1881 and President of the Trier Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1881 to 1884.
Politically, Rautenstrauch was initially active as a member of the Trier city council, to which he had belonged since 1866. In 1872 he was elected honorary alderman.
As early as 1863 and again in the ninth legislative period from 1866 to 1867 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . As a representative of the city of Trier, he had been a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament since 1874. From 1873 to 1884 he was also a member of the Prussian mansion as a representative of the city of Trier.
literature
- Portrait on the pages of the IHK Trier
- Life data on private homepage
- Short biography on the website of the Rheinische Landesbibliothek
- Hermann Krüger (ed.): Chronicle of the Prussian manor house. A commemorative book to commemorate the manor's 30th anniversary. Berlin, 1885, page 195f
- tomb
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rautenstrauch, Valentin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rautenstrauch, Valentin Wilhelm Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Trier businessman and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1884 |
| Place of death | trier |