He is considered a pioneer of the German credit and insurance industry.
As a politician he was a leading representative of Rhineland liberalism and he was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Rhine Province, the Vereinigter Landtag, the Frankfurt Parliament.
In 1879, on the golden wedding anniversary of the Kaiser, Mevissen set aside railway shares worth approximately 200,000 marks to establish a commercial college in Cologne.
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