Franz Babenburg

Franz Babenburg (1845 - 1901) was a German politician and capitalist. From 1875 to 1880, he was a member of the Partei für wirtschaftlichen und kolonialen Wohlstand und Entwicklung.

Biography
Franz was born to a relatively well to do family with 2 older brothers in 1845. When he was a teenager, one of his brothers got into a fight with a socialist and his brother got badly injured. As a result, he was relatively anti-socialist compared to his fellow PKW-members. He joined the party in 1875, but left politics again in 1880 as the party disbanded and transformed into the Freisinnige Vereinigung. In 1901, Babenburg died as a result of a severe lung disease.