Wilhelm Meußdoerffer (brewer, 1858)
Wilhelm Meußdoerffer (born November 12, 1858 in Kulmbach ; † December 4, 1931 there ) was a German entrepreneur and politician. He was a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies from 1893 to 1918 .
Life
At the time of Wilhelm Meußdoerffer's birth, the Meußdoerffer family had been resident in Kulmbach for over 500 years. His father was the entrepreneur Johann Georg Meußdoerffer, his mother Christiane, geb. Tyrold.
Meußdoerffer first attended the elementary school in Kulmbach, from 1868 to 1870 the Latin school in Kulmbach and then the trade department of the trade school in Bayreuth . He then learned the trade of a businessman in Nuremberg from 1873 to 1876. In 1876 he began his military service as a one-year volunteer with the 7th Infantry Regiment in Bayreuth. He remained in the military until 1899, when he took his leave as captain of the Landwehr.
In 1877 Meußdoerffer joined his father's company and took over the malt factory the following year at the age of 20 , as his father had died early. Together with his younger brother, he built three new malt factories in Kulmbach. He became a board member and co-owner of the Ersten Kulmbacher Mälzereigesellschaft (previously JG Meußdoerffers Söhne G. mbH) and a personally liable partner of the Meussdoerffer limited partnership Ceres in Kulmbach. He was also chairman of the supervisory board of the Kulmbacher export brewery Mönchshof A.-G. and sat on the supervisory board of the cotton mills Kolbermoor , Pfersee , Unterhausen and Zöschlingsweiler .
Meußdoerffer held various offices in the Kulmbach community. For around 25 years, he was municipal representative and councilor as well as chairman of the supervisory board of the trade and advance payment association and chairman of the Kulmbach trade committee. In June 1893 he was elected for the constituency of Kulmbach with three other liberal members of the state parliament. Until 1918 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies , the Bavarian Parliament.
Meußdoerffer went on economic study trips to North America (1893, 1910), Spain (1903) and Asia Minor (1907). He was married to Elise, b. Vollrath. The marriage resulted in three daughters and two sons. Her oldest child was the future factory owner Eduard Meußdoerffer .
Awards
- 1927: honorary citizen of Kulmbach
- Order of Merit of St. Michael IV Class with a crown
- Prince Regent Luitpold Medal in bronze
- Title Privy Councilor of Commerce
literature
- Otto Mohrmann, Max Wild: One hundred years of Meussdoerffer-Malz - From the history of an old Kulmbach bourgeois family , Kulmbach 1952.
Web links
- Wilhelm Meußdoerffer in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Meußdoerffer, Wilhelm. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 112.
- ↑ Meußdoerffer, Wilhelm In: Official handbook of the Bavarian Landtag. published by the Landtag Office. Munich 1912. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 108.
- ^ Erwin Herrmann: History of the City of Kulmbach (= series of publications "Die Plassenburg" for local research and cultural maintenance in East Franconia . Volume 45 ). Friends of Plassenburg eV, Kulmbach 1985, ISBN 3-925162-13-5 , p. 376 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meussdoerffer, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kulmbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 4, 1931 |
| Place of death | Kulmbach |