Carl Tewaag

Carl Friedrich August Tewaag (born June 18, 1844 in Mengede (Westphalia), † September 6, 1928 in Dortmund ) was a German public prosecutor, brewery owner and local politician in Dortmund.

Life

Tewaag studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1864 he became a member and later an honorary member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn . In the same year he was still active at Vandalia Berlin . Initially public prosecutor of the Dortmund district court, he was appointed public prosecutor of the district court in 1879. Two years later he resigned from the judicial service. He settled down as a lawyer and volunteered for the city: from 1884 to 1897 as city ​​councilor , from 1900 to 1905 as deputy chairman of the city council and from 1905 to 1915 as its first chairman. From 1906 to 1919 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Westphalia for the constituency of Dortmund-Stadt . In 1923 he took over the Union brewery founded by his father in 1871 , which has since become Germany's largest brewery. Tewaag was buried in the east cemetery in Dortmund .

Honors

• Honorary member of the Corps Guestphalia Bonn
• Honorary Citizen of Dortmund (1914)

literature

• Alfred Bruns (Ed.), Josef Häming (compilation): The Members of the Westphalia Parliament 1826–1978 (= Westphalian source and archive directories, Volume 2). Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1978, p. 616.

Web links

• Grave (with picture; PDF; 678 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 12/550; 9/97.