Kurd von Damm

Kurd von Damm (1862–1915), photo

Karl Albert Kurd von Damm (born April 28, 1862 in Braunschweig , † January 24, 1915 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer , politician and entrepreneur . He was a member of the Reichstag from 1903 to 1912 .

life and work

Von Damm grew up in Helmstedt and from 1881 studied law in Freiburg , Berlin and Göttingen . In Freiburg he joined the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . He passed the legal state exams in 1885 and 1888 and in 1889 became an administrative officer in Braunschweig. From 1892 to 1897 he was City Director of Wolfenbüttel . There he worked as a lawyer from 1898 to 1913, was appointed a notary in 1899 and a councilor in 1910 . He first moved to Bensberg and then to Berlin . There he had been working as a lawyer at the Higher Court since 1914 . After the outbreak of war, he was auxiliary judge of the navy in Kiel, where he died in 1915.

Foundation of the Rüningen mill

Von Damm was involved in several commercial enterprises. He was the deputy chairman of the supervisory board of the Braunschweiger Maschinen- und Mühlenbauanstalt G. Luther AG and the Lehrter Portland-Zement-Fabrik Germania AG . Von Damm was the son-in-law of the founder of the Braunschweiger Mühle Rüningen AG , consul Georg Berkenbusch, in whose company he joined. On December 22, 1898, the company was converted into a stock corporation with a capital of 1.75 million marks. In addition to von Damm and Berkenbusch, its founders included the factory director von Buggenhagen, the banker Albert Schmincke and Otto Stein.

Member of the Reichstag

Von Damm was active in the "Brunonia" association and was one of the founders of the Brunswick-Welf party. After a failed candidacy for the Reichstag in 1898, he was elected a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of the Duchy of Braunschweig 3 (Holzminden-Gandersheim) in 1903 , where he worked as a guest of the Economic Association and as secretary until 1912.

Individual evidence

^ Reinhold Zilch: Acta Borussica. Series 1, Volume 9, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3487110067 , p. 342
↑ History of the Rüningen Mill, as of July 23, 2008 ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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@ 2
^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1422-1425.

literature

Burkhard Schmidt: Damm, Karl Albert Kurd from . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 130-131 .

Web links

Kurd von Damm in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Kurd von Damm . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

personal data
SURNAME	Damm, Kurd from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Damm, Karl Albert Kurd von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, politician, MdR and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 1915
Place of death	Kiel

[1] Reinhold Zilch: Acta Borussica. Series 1, Volume 9, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3487110067 , p. 342

[2] History of the Rüningen Mill, as of July 23, 2008 ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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@ 2

[3] Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 15). Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1422-1425.