Carl Friedrich Tenge

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Carl Ernst Friedrich Tenge (born March 12, 1824 in Niederbarkhausen ; † January 11, 1896 in Detmold ) was a German landowner and industrialist .

Life

Carl Friedrich Tenge was born as the son of the landowner and industrialist Friedrich Ludwig Tenge . He initially received private lessons before moving to the Bielefeld high school in 1837. After finishing school, he began studying law and camera science in Heidelberg in 1842 . In 1843 he became a member of the Corps Saxo-Borussia here . In 1845 he completed his studies in Berlin with the first exam and began his legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal, which he did not end in favor of a career in his father's companies.

From 1846 he was in-house lawyer and later also managing director in his father's company, the domain administration in Rietberg , the Rietberg and Marschallshagen glassworks and the Holter ironworks . After his father's death in 1865, he became the owner of the Rietberg County Chamber Estate and Holte Castle and, together with his brother Carl Christoph Tenge, a partner in the Holter ironworks. In 1869 he was a co-founder and until 1895 chairman of the Association of German Iron Foundries . For many years he was deputy chairman of the mechanical engineering and metal professional association in Dortmund.

In terms of local politics, he was a councilor for Rietberg and Liemke, a member of the Rietberg district council and chairman of the board of trustees of the Rietberger Sparkasse.

He was the father of the district administrator and member of the state parliament Woldemar Tenge-Rietberg , the entrepreneur Harald Tenge and the writer Dora Hohlfeld .

literature

  • Frank Konersmann: The Tenges - 400 years of entrepreneurs in Osnabrück and East Westphalia , Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-89534-561-X

Individual evidence

  1. Herbert Stöwer, Hans-Peter Wehlt, Agnes Stache-Weiske (eds.): What great times we are experiencing !: The letters of the Lippe Chancellor Friedrich Ernst Ballhorn-Rosen to his son Georg in Constantinople 1847-1851 . Lippischer Heimatbund, Lemgo 1999, ISBN 3-941726-03-X , p. 61 .
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 71 , 238