Carl Eduard Dahmen
Carl Eduard Dahmen (born May 25, 1800 in Aachen , † June 4, 1883 ibid) was a German merchant and royal Bavarian consul. From 1849 to 1879 he was assistant mayor of the city of Aachen .
Life
He was the son of the lawyer Carl Josef Anton Dahmen and Maria Fell and a descendant of the former mayor of the imperial city of Aachen Peter Dahmen (1647–1736), after whom the “Ferkesgrav” or “Hirtzgrav” not far from the Ursuline Gate, which was located there at that time at today's Holzgraben was renamed Dahmengraben .
In his professional career, Dahmen was a. a. Agrippina Insurance Agent . For 30 years he served as the mayor of the city of Aachen, responsible for construction, first under Arnold Edmund Pelzer , then under Johann Contzen and finally for a few years under Ludwig von Weise . As the mayor's deputy, he took over the administration of the building authority and enabled, for example, the Aachen architect and city master builder, Friedrich Joseph Ark , to deal with new building projects and other larger tasks. In 1881 Carl Eduard Dahmen, together with other high-ranking personalities from the economic life of the city of Aachen, played a key role in the decision that today's Einhard-Gymnasium could be built in Aachen and opened on May 1st, 1886.
Dahmen had been a member of Club Aachener Casino since 1835 . He was married to Maria Johanna Adenau (1803–1874), with whom he had nine children.
literature
- Eduard Arens , Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino. new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen, Felix Kuetgens . Pressure Metz. 2nd Edition. Aachen 1964. p. 144.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dahmen, Carl Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant, royal Bavarian consul and mayor of the city of Aachen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1883 |
| Place of death | Aachen |