Ysaak Brons

Ysaak Brons (also written Ysaac Brons ; born April 3, 1802 in Jever ; † March 12, 1886 in Emden ) was a politician, businessman and shipowner . In 1848/49 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Brons was an East Frisian merchant son of the Mennonite faith. After his father during the Napoleonic Continental System had lost his fortune, made himself Ysaak 1826 independently and was a successful grain merchant and shipowner. In 1836 he became the British Vice Consul in Emden. The very poor transport infrastructure of East Frisia , which at that time belonged to the Kingdom of Hanover , severely impaired the region's economic development. Brons therefore campaigned with great vigor for railway construction , better roads and the introduction of steam shipping . His own shipping company also acquired its own steamships at an early stage. His work had a major impact on the construction of the Hanoverian West Railway from Emden towards Münster in the 1850s.

Brons worked at times as a member of the church council and as a deacon of the Mennonite community in Emden. Because of his Mennonite beliefs, the Hanover government refused to accept his elected office as a deputy of the assembly of estates and representative of East Frisia in Hanover. Brons developed sympathy for the democratic forces that sparked the March Revolution in Germany in 1848 . From May 18, 1848 to May 20, 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for Emden . Here he appeared as a proponent of a small German solution . He was a member of the commissions (parliamentary committees) for economics and the navy. As a member of the Emden parliament, he is particularly committed to ensuring that Emden should become the main naval port of the new imperial fleet . At times he held the office of Reich Commissioner for Naval Affairs.

After the failure of the revolution, Brons remained loyal to politics in addition to his commercial activity. East Frisia became Prussian again in 1866, and Brons was elected a member of the new North German Reichstag in 1867 . After King Wilhelm I of Prussia lived in the Brons house on the occasion of a visit to Emden in 1869, Brons received the title of "Royal Councilor of Commerce ".

His wife Antje Brons worked, among other things, as a writer. The couple had 11 children together, two of whom died early. The son Bernhard became a respected businessman.

The street of the same name in the authorities district in Emden was named after Brons .

Fonts

• About the trading conditions of the Ems ports of Emden and Leer and about the Hannoversche West-Eisenbahn , Culemann, Hannover 1846; 2nd edition: Rakebrand, Emden 1850

literature

• Archive for lore and heraldry, 1914, p.132

Individual evidence

1. ^ The grave of Ysaak Brons on the website www.grabsteine-ostfriesland.de; accessed on January 11, 2014
2. ↑ Ysaak Brons. (PDF; 248 kB) East Frisian Landscape, accessed on August 29, 2017 . 
3. ^ 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. 115.
4. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 86, short biography p. 385.
5. ↑ Antje Brons. (PDF; 248 kB) East Frisian Landscape, accessed on August 29, 2017 . 

Web links

• Ysaak Brons in the database of members of the Reichstag