Carl Adalbert Foerster

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Carl Adalbert Förster (born October 14, 1853 in Oppach ; † December 11, 1925 in Oberstrahwalde ) was a textile manufacturer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Förster attended the Realgymnasium in Zittau and later the commercial school in Bautzen . In 1870/71 he was a volunteer in a wholesale company in Elberfeld and served from October 1, 1872 to October 1, 1873 as a one-year volunteer in the 102nd Infantry Regiment in Zittau. In December 1874 he became a reserve officer. From 1874 he was co-owner and from 1906 sole owner of the textile company CC Förster, mechanical colored weaving, cotton spinning, finishing and bleaching in Spremberg near Neusalza , with the two communities being united on February 15, 1920 to form the city of Neusalza-Spremberg . The company CC foresters could later under different social conditions after the end of World War II in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR as VEB Baumwollspinnerei- and weaving Spremberg or as a branch operation of the VEK Lautex - Oberlausitzer textile mills until the turn (1989/90) and claim the city's largest operation.

From 1898 to 1903 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency Kingdom of Saxony 2 Löbau and the German Conservative Party . Between 1905 and 1909 he was also a member of the Saxon state parliament .

literature

  • Walter Heinich: Spremberg. Attempt on a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . Spremberg u. Schirgiswalde 1918.
  • Frank Nürnberger: History of the Upper Lusatian Textile Industry. From the beginning to the present. To some selected company stories of the Upper Lusatian textile industry (sorted alphabetically by place). Spitzkunnersdorf: Oberlausitzer Verlag 2007, index: CC Förster Neusalza-Spremberg, pp. 372–374. ISBN 978-3-933872-70-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Life data according to the entry in the Saxon Biography
  2. Historical minutes of the Saxon state parliament: Förster, Karl Adalbert