Wilhelm Troeltsch

Heinrich Wilhelm Troeltsch (born February 27, 1840 in Weißenburg , † December 22, 1925 in Bonn ) was an entrepreneur and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Troeltsch attended the trade school in Nuremberg from 1850 to 1854. He lived in England from 1859 and was appointed head of one of the largest and most important English banking and export companies (Briggs and Co.) in Alexandria in 1862 and in 1865 became the first director of Appointed branch of Imperial Ottoman Bank in Alexandria. He held this position until July 1872, when he became a partner in his father’s factory business, which has been running a gold and silver manufacture under the Tröltsch and Hauselmann company in Weißenburg since 1766. Since 1876 he was a member of the trade and industry committee and, as its board member, also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Middle Franconia. In 1872 he built the Doerflervilla in Weißenburg, in his hometown there is a Wilhelm-Troeltsch-Straße.

From 1890 to 1893 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Middle Franconia 3 ( Ansbach , Schwabach , Heilsbronn ) and the National Liberal Party . He ran again in 1893 and in the replacement election in 1896 for the National Liberal Party, but could not win the constituency a second time.

His only son was the economist Walter Troeltsch , whose grandson is the Hessian politician Walter Troeltsch .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 207.
2. ^ Böttcher, Rudolf H .: Research on Genealogy Troeltsch and von Tröltsch . Not yet published

Web links

• Wilhelm Troeltsch in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Wilhelm Troeltsch . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)