Georg Foerster (administrative lawyer)

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Georg Foerster (also: Förster) , (* August 7, 1837 in Liegnitz ; † August 31, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and real secret councilor .

Life and work

Georg Foerster, son of a Prussian civil servant, attended high school in Stettin after the family moved . In 1855 he began his law studies in Greifswald , moved to Göttingen the following year , where he was a member of the Hannovera fraternity . He completed his studies in Berlin. After his legal traineeship and the second state examination in law, he worked as a government assessor at the regional council of Stettin from 1864. He participated in the war in 1866 and 1870/71 and received the Iron Cross II. Class and the Landwehr Service Award II. Class . In 1867 he became an employee and then a member of the administrative board of the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . When the major German railway companies were nationalized in 1880, he was transferred to the Prussian administrative service. After a short time as head of the newly formed railway operations office in Stettin, then in Breslau, he was transferred to the Hanover Railway Directorate in 1881 . In 1883 he worked as a railway director at the Elberfeld Railway Directorate. In 1892 he was promoted to the Upper Government Council and became department head and representative of the President of the Hanover Railway Directorate. At the same time he was an extraordinary member of the consistory of the Evangelical Church of the Province of Hanover . As early as 1879, by law of August 7, 1878, after the previous unsuccessful attempt with a Reich Railway Office, the Ministry of Public Works was spun off from the Ministry of Commerce by Bismarck , to which the administration of all railway affairs in Prussia was also transferred. In 1895 Georg Foerster was appointed to the finance department of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works as a lecturing council with the title of a secret councilor (since 1898 secret councilor). On the occasion of his retirement, he received the title Real Secret Upper Government Councilor.

Honors

literature

  • Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State. Berlin 1881 / 82-1904.
  • German contemporary lexicon. Biographical manual of contemporary German men and women. Leipzig 1905, Schulze & Co. publishing house, Sp. 377 f.
  • Acta Borussica - New Series, 1st Row: The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817-1934 / 38. published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2003, vol. 8 / II, edited by H. Spenkuch, p. 524.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity of Hannovera Göttingen. 1848-1998. Düsseldorf 1998, p. 27.
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbaw.de
  3. ↑ http://preussenprotocol.bbaw.de/bilder/Band%208-2.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Foerster, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forester, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and Real Secret Upper Government Councilor
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1911
Place of death Berlin