Büdingen, Friedrich Wolfgang
Büdingen, Friedrich Wolfgang
Merchant, bathhouse owner, town councillor
Born: 12.01.1843 in Birstein (Upper Hesse)
died: 20.01.1917 in Wiesbaden
Büdingen was the last owner of the hotel and bathhouse "Zum Adler", which was at the heart of the town's social life in the first half of the 19th century.
In 1875, the heirs of the owner Gottfried Christian Schlichter († 1851) transferred the management of the house to the merchant Büdingen. Three years later, he bought the property for 600,000 marks before selling the hotel and bathhouse, the outbuildings and the large garden, including the rights to the Adlerquelle spring, to Wiesbaden in 1899.
Büdingen had been married to a daughter of the mayor Wilhelm Coulin since 1879.
In addition to his work as a hotelier and later as a rentier, he was also committed to the town. He was a member of the citizens' committee from 1883-85. In November 1903, he was again elected as a substitute and re-elected in 1905. At the end of 1911, he retired from the town parliament. Büdingen was for many years the director of the lung sanatorium in Naurod.
In Wiesbaden, Büdingenstraße was named after him in 1899.
Literature
Renkhoff, Otto: Nassauische Biographie. Kurzbiographien aus 13 Jahrhunderten, 2nd ed., Wiesbaden 1992 (Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Nassau 39) [p. 92].
Czysz, Walter: Vom Römerbad zur Weltkurstadt, Geschichte der Wiesbadener heißen Quellen und Bäder, Wiesbaden 2000 (Schriften des Stadtarchivs Wiesbaden 7 [p. 312 f.].
Spiegel, Margit: Wiesbadener Firmenbriefköpfe aus der Kaiserzeit 1871-1914. Fabrik- und Hotelansichten auf Geschäftsschreiben und Rechnungen. 50 examples with brief company portraits, vol. 1, Wiesbaden 2003.