Friedrich von Halfern

Friedrich Johann Wilhelm von Halfern (born March 26, 1849 in Burtscheid , † April 5, 1908 in Aachen ) was a Burtscheid cloth manufacturer, bank director and city councilor of Burtscheid, chief fire chief of the Burtscheid fire department and dendrologist.

He was the son of the Burtscheider cloth manufacturer Gustav Adolf von Halfern (1821-1875) and Bertha Erckens (1824-1893), daughter of the cloth manufacturer Friedrich Erckens, who also worked there.

During the Franco-Prussian War he was slightly wounded in the battle near Sapignies in 1871 by a chest blow and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class. He then took over his father's cloth factory on the corner of Kurbrunnenstrasse and Dammstrasse and had Von-Halfern-Park in Aachen laid out according to the English model. As chief fire chief of the Burtscheider fire brigade, von Halfern was responsible for its reorganization. In addition, he joined the Club Aachener Casino on December 27, 1876 .

Von Halfern was married to Helene Christiane Fellinger (1850–1932), daughter of the dye works owner Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Fellingers. Together they had the son and later district president Carl von Halfern and a daughter. After Friedrich von Halfern's death, the widow and children founded the Friedrich von Halfern Foundation, from whose fund sub-civil servants and teams of the city fire brigade were supported.

Friedrich von Halfern found his final resting place in the hot mountain cemetery in Burtscheid / Aachen .

literature

• Eduard Arens, Wilhelm Leopold Janssen : Club Aachener Casino , new ed. by Elisabeth Janssen and Felix Kuetgens , Druck Metz, Aachen 2nd edition 1964, p. 182.
• The Von Halfern Park. In: Klaus Bischops: Around Aachen. Volume 3, Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89899-287-9 , pp. 118–119 (digitized version )
• Short biography on Lebendiges Aachen
• For the history of the Hochgrundhaus and the Von-Halfern-Park , waldorfkindergarten-aachen.de.