Eduard Puricelli
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Eduard Puricelli (16 November 1826 – 4 December 1893) was a German industrialist and politician for Free Conservative Party.
Puricelli founded and led several gas companies in Trier and in the Rheinböller[1] hut. Puricelli ran several times as a representative of Catholic and conservative parties to Members mandates and belonged to the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation. After the Franco-German War of war 1870–71 resulted in the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany, Puricelli remained, together with eleven other companies, in Trier, for economic reasons.
Puricelli and his brother were very active in various industrial companies: forest products, blast furnaces, metals marketing, development of gas industries for city lights, and metal industries.[2]
