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Ferdinand Ritschl

Consul, German Empire

Centurion, 1896–1917

Full Name Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Ritschl

Born 7 August 1843 in Bonn, Germany

Died 11 August 1917 in Germany

Buried Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Proposed by Hugo Wesendonck and Alfred Roelker

Elected 4 April 1896 at age fifty-two

Archivist’s Note: Son of (nonmember) Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl

Century Memorial

Ferdinand Ritschl, for many years German Consul in Philadelphia.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1918 Century Association Yearbook