Carl Ludwig Berger

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Gravestone in the Luther Park in Witten

Carl Ludwig Berger (born September 22, 1794 in Bommern near Witten; † March 21, 1871 in Witten ) was an industrialist from Witten.

His parents were Peter Engelbert Berger (1752-1808) and his wife Helene Hundeycker, called Reese (1761-1852). His father was a landowner and co-owner of several coal mines.

Berger trained as a businessman and worked for around eight years in Amsterdam , after which he managed the fortunes of his family acquired from the mining industry . In 1838 he founded his first ironworks together with August Spennemann , which, however, was unsuccessful. By the end of the 1840s , he tried to develop his own cast steel process. In 1854, together with the Dutch van Braam and Vriese, he founded the Berger & Co. establishment , which later became the Witten cast steel plant and the Deutsche Edelstahlwerke Specialty Steel company, which is now part of Schmolz + Bickenbach AG .

He married Wilhelmine Klingholz (1799–1878) in 1824 ; she was the daughter of Johann Wilhelm Klingholz and the head of the infant care facility she founded and the sewing and knitting school in Witten. The politician Louis Constanz Berger was the couple's son.

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SURNAME Berger, Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Bommern near Witten
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1871
Place of death Witten