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

Siepmann The Siepmann family () is an over 200-year-old entrepreneurial dynasty originally from Hagen notable for their activities in the North Rhine-Westphalian coal, steel, ammunition, armaments industry as well as important supplier to the automotive, ...

in Warstein. Additionally he served as president of

IHK Arnsberg The Industrie- und Handelskammer Arnsberg, Sauerland-Hellweg ( English: Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Arnsberg, Sauerland-Hellweg) is one of 80 Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Germany representing collective interests of regional companie ...

from 1878 to 1884. Bergenthal unsuccessfully sought election to the Reichstag (North German Confederation) in March 1867 but lost election against

Peter Reichensperger Peter Reichensperger (b. at Coblenz, 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 cou ...

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

1878 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 30 July 1878.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p762 The National Liberal Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag, with 97 of the 397 seats. Voter ...

and in a by-election to the Prussian House of Representatives in 1884, both times unsuccessfully.

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