Johann Alerich Feldhus

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Johann Alerich Feldhus (born January 17, 1850 in Specken , † March 26, 1931 in Bad Zwischenahn ) was a German farmer , Oldenburg Chamber President and Oldenburg Member of Parliament .

Life

Origin and early years

Feldhus was the son of the farmer Johann Wilhelm Feldhus (* 1823) and Helene Catharine geb. Hempen. After attending primary school, he learned practical farming on his father's farm and also ran a fast-growing haulage company. In particular, he took over the transport of hops , which at that time was still being grown in the Ammerland , to the next railway station - that was Bremen until 1867 . He also went fishing in the Zwischenahn Sea and for several years drove the steamboat on the regular route from Bad Zwischenahn to Dreibergen . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he took part in the fighting from the battle near Beaumont and the Battle of Sedan to the siege of Paris .

1883 Feldhus was - to - succeeding his uncle Heinrich Gerhard Feldhus community leaders elected by Zwischenahn. Extremely capable in this office, he was re-elected before he resigned from office in 1923. As a community leader, Feldhus founded an agricultural winter school in Zwischenahn in 1893 at the suggestion of the Cloppenburg agricultural teacher Pieper , the first in the Oldenburg region . He co-founded the savings and loan fund, which later became the Zwischenahner Bank. With both, he made his local contribution to the radical modernization of Oldenburg's agriculture around 1900.

politics

From 1890 to 1899 and from 1902 to 1919 Feldhus was a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament for constituency IV ( Westerstede Office ). He represented agrarian interests within the parliamentary group of the National Liberal Party (NLP). Since the founding of the Oldenburg Chamber of Agriculture in 1900 he was a member of the board, became its deputy chairman and in 1918 its president . In this role he had to lead the Oldenburg agriculture through the difficult years of the agricultural crisis during the Weimar Republic . In 1929 - at the age of 79 - he resigned from this office. Feldhus was also a member of the German Agricultural Society (DLG), the Lower Saxony Transport Association and the Oldenburg Farmers' Liability Insurance Association. He has received numerous honors. In 1918 he was appointed to the Secret Economics Council, received the Cross of Honor in 1923 from the three unified Oldenburg Chambers and was made an honorary citizen in the same year by his home community Bad Zwischenahn .

family

On October 24, 1873, he married Wübke Helene Ahrens (* 1848), the daughter of the househusband Alert Ahrens in Kayhausen and Anna Elisabeth born. Höpker. The marriage resulted in four sons and two daughters.

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personal data
SURNAME Feldhus, Johann Alerich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German farmer, Oldenburg Chamber President and Member of the State Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Bacon
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1931
Place of death Bad Zwischenahn