Heinrich Foehring

Heinrich Föhring (* around 1832 probably in Hamburg ; † March 31, 1907 there ) was a Hamburg lawyer and politician.

Life

From 1850 Föhring studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he became a member of the Corps Hannovera . He completed his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. jur. from. After completing his legal training, he settled down as a lawyer in his hometown of Hamburg, but then in the course of the reorganization of the Reich justice system in 1879, he became district court director at the Hamburg district court .

Föhring was politically active from 1859–62 as a member of the newly formed Hamburg citizenship . In addition, from 1874 to 1886 he was a member of the high school authorities , commissioner for the Museum of Ethnology and the Collection of Prehistoric Antiquities . Föhring was one of the co-founders of the zoological garden in Hamburg and was the chairman of the association for the prison system.

As a corps student and senior man of his corps , he was one of the founders of the Academic Club in Hamburg in 1859 . In the period from 1859 to 1884, he was its “dominus praeses”, i.e. chairman of the board , for 25 years . His colleague and Göttingen corp brother Johann Friedrich Voigt held out a little longer and remained in the office of "dominus tertius", i.e. secretary , from 1859 until his death in 1920. Today the AC is one of the oldest philistine associations in the Kösener Corps .

Fonts

• A look at the welfare system for released prisoners with a special focus on Germany , Schulze, Oldenburg 1880

literature

• Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899 Göttingen 2002, p. 177, No. 544
• Gustav Rittmeyer: History of the Academic Club of Hamburg 1859-1954 , Hamburg 1954, p. 98 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Föhring in the catalog of the German National Library