Hans Carl Federath

Hans Carl Federath

Hans Carl Federath (born October 27, 1848 in Culm , today Chełmno , † April 11, 1914 in Chiemsee ) was a Prussian district administrator and owner of several ironworks.

His father was a teacher at the high school in Culm. He studied in Berlin initially Medicine and soon moved to the legal and political sciences . He completed part of his studies in Breslau (1868 and 1871), Tübingen (1869), Leipzig (December 15, 1869) and Greifswald (1870/71). During his studies he was a member of the Germania Berlin fraternity (1867), Arminia Breslau fraternity (1868) and the Dresden fraternity in Leipzig (December 1, 1869). He then went through the usual legal preparatory service and was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD .

During the Franco-Prussian War he was a volunteer . In 1873 he was entrusted with the administration of the Rüdesheim office and a short time later the Gammertingen office in the Hohenzollern Lands in southern Germany. At the end of the year, Federath was entrusted with the administration of the Wehlau district . He passed the necessary exam in 1875. This was followed by the appointment as district administrator .

At his own request for health reasons, he became district administrator of the Brilon district in 1878 . In 1891 he married the widow Ida Kropff geb. Brüning. This was the heir to the Kropff family of trades and entrepreneurs. The properties that she brought into the marriage included the Olsberger Hut and the Hut in Altenbeken . Federath had the old Kropff house in Olsberg expanded to include a representative villa in the historicist style .

Federath retired in 1900. In the same year he became an honorary citizen of Brilon .

Federath was a member of the Brilon district assembly , the Westphalian provincial assembly and a deputy member of the provincial assembly. Furthermore, he belonged to the Westphalian Antiquities Association and was director of the agricultural district association Brilon. He was also the first chairman of the Josefs-Gesellschaft e. V.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 12-13.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Main role of the Leipzig fraternity Dresdensia 1853–1899
2. ↑ Üwer Kimme and Korn 2002 (PDF; 1.4 MB)

Web links

• LWL.org (problems with the direct link; the use of the search function is necessary)