Franz Anton Wilhelm Bergenthal colloquially Wilhelm Bergenthal (4 February 1805 - 28 April 1893) was a German industrialist and politician. In 1834, he formed Bergenthal & Gabriel, a predecessor of

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. Additionally he served as president of

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from 1878 to 1884. Bergenthal unsuccessfully sought election to the

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in March 1867 but lost election against

Peter Reichensperger Peter Reichensperger (b. at Koblenz, 28 May 1810 - d. at Berlin, 31 December 1892) was a German jurist and parliamentarian for Centre Party. Life He studied at Bonn and Heidelberg and was successively counsellor at Coblenz (1843), of the cour ...

.Jonathan Sperber: Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Princeton University Press, 1984.S193f He campaigned for seats in the

1878 German federal election Elections in Germany#German elections from 1871 to 1945, Federal elections were held in German Empire, Germany on 30 July 1878.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p762 The National Liberal Party (Ger ...

and in a

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to the

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in 1884, both times unsuccessfully.

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