Emil Fitger
Emil Fitger (born December 15, 1848 in Delmenhorst ; † April 9, 1917 in Bremen ) was a Bremen businessman, editor-in-chief of the Weser newspaper and a member of the Bremen citizenship .
biography
Fitger was born as the son of the postmaster and Delmenhorst innkeeper Peter Diedrich Fitger († 1865) and his wife Clara Maria Caroline born. Plate used Dorny († 1891) born. Fitger attended the Rector's School in Delmenhorst and the Commercial School in Bremen . He initially worked as a businessman. In 1878 he moved to the editorial office of the Weser newspaper in Bremen and in 1886 became editor-in-chief of this politically- mercantile commercial paper from Schünemann Verlag . With a liberal economic approach, he led the newspaper to international significance and was its editor-in-chief until 1917. In 1906 he was also a co-founder of the Lower Saxony Press Association in Hanover, in which his newspaper was represented.
As a representative of the 2nd class he became a member of the Bremen citizenship in the Bremen 8th class suffrage in 1879 and was on this committee until his death in 1917. He was friends with the Reich Chancellor (1900–1909) Bernhard von Bülow .
He was the brother of the painter and writer Arthur Fitger and the uncle of the painter Hermann Fitger (1891–1986).
The Fitgerstraße in Bremen- Schwachhausen was named after him.
Works (excerpt)
- The economic and technical development of shipping from the middle of the 19th century to the present (1902). Duncker & Humblot. Leipzig.
literature
- Hans Jessen : Fitger, Emil Augustus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 216 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans Jessen: Fitger, Emil (ius) Augustus. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild, Bremen 1969, p. 151 (column 2) to p. 152 (column 1).
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fitger, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German editor-in-chief and politician, Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Delmenhorst |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1917 |
| Place of death | Bremen |