Fritz von Langen

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Fritz Jakob Langen , von Langen since 1917 (* July 25, 1860 in Cologne , † February 22, 1929 at Haus Tanneck near Elsdorf ) was a German entrepreneur and landowner.

Life

Fritz Langen was a son of the secret councilor Eugen Langen and his wife Henriette, nee. Thurneysen. He attended the Apostle High School in Cologne until 1880 . He then devoted himself to technical studies in Munich and Bonn. He was a member of the Corps Hansea and Franconia Munich . In 1881/82 he served as a one-year volunteer in the Bonn Hussar Regiment No. 7. His last rank was Rittmeister of the Reserve.

After completing his training, Langen joined the Pfeifer & Langen company in 1883 . From 1886 until the transformation into a stock corporation in 1926, he was its managing director. After retiring from this position, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. From 1900 he was a member of the Bonn Chamber of Commerce. From 1914 he was deputy chairman there, from 1919 until his death chairman. He also held a leading position in the top organizations of the German sugar industry. He was curator of the institute for sugar industry in Berlin and member of the association committee of the German sugar industry, member of the board of the machine factory Magdeburg-Buckau , chairman of the machine factory Grevenbroich, member of the supervisory board of the engine factory Deutz and from 1895 supervisory board of the Rheinische Seeschifffahrtsgesellschaft.

In 1912 Langen was appointed to the Prussian Commerce Council. He was the owner of the Tanneck and Elsdorf estates and was raised to the Prussian nobility on April 25, 1917.

Awards

  • Iron Cross 2nd class
  • Cross of Merit for War Aid
  • Prussian Red Eagle Order IV class
  • Grand Ducal Oldenburg Friedrich-August Cross on a blue-red ribbon
  • Grand Ducal Oldenburg Knight of Honor Cross 1st Class
  • Turkish Iron Crescent
  • Turkish Mecidiye Order

literature

  • 200 semesters of Munich francs . [Munich] 1936, pp. 277f. (No. 458)